Design features include a nineteen and a half thousand piece jigsaw which involves the participation in an intriguing way of every guest who attends and to celebrate the sojourn of the Fat Duck there's a mad hatter style time piece. Not everything however is at it seems, instead of measuring hours and minutes the bespoke clock measures the number of days until The Fat Ducks return to Bray. At the end of the final service in August, the clocks mechanism will stop forever. The clock will return to Bray as a lasting souvenir of the teams time in Melbourne.
Other elements will be revealed only to customers who will dine at the restaurant even the entrance to the restaurant itself is not what it seems.
Heston visited Australia in 2003 and his love for the country’s beauty, diversity, produce and people was immediate. For over a decade, he had his eye on opening a restaurant there, so it was with unabashed excitement that he revealed The Fat Duck Melbourne’s opening date and how to reserve a table at his first Australian restaurant.
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