Archive for the ‘Food’ Category
Friday, August 15th, 2008
Today we visited the Horseshoe Inn at Mamhilad (near Pontypool) in south Wales. Interesting place!
The first thing that took me by surprise was that when the waitress went to tell us about the specials, she pointed us to the specials board, noticed that there was some things missing from it ...
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Monday, May 5th, 2008
Another chain restaurant which the wife and I do enjoy visiting is Loch Fyne Restaurants. They do a nice range in fish dishes prepared well with a price that doesn't break the bank.
The good thing with chain restaurants is that once you've found one that you like, you know that ...
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Sunday, May 4th, 2008
Strada is a surprisingly good "chain" Italian restaurant. This was only my second visit to them, both times I had pizza, both times it was really good. The wife tried something different the second time having Guinea Fowl. It was a good experiment as it allowed us to see if ...
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Saturday, May 3rd, 2008
Wow. What a restaurant. This place has four AA Rosettes, and it so well deserves them. The food was excellent. Really excellent! Service was good too with a generous helping of friendly helpful staff you were never left with your hand in the air trying desperately to get attention.
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Thursday, May 1st, 2008
The Wallet decided to treat me today. Breakfast at Roast in London's Borough Market. Roast is a recently established high quality restaurant specialising in seasonal produce dedicated to the best of British cooking.
They cook up a nice breakfast too, so nice that it won an award for the best breakfast ...
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Sunday, April 27th, 2008
Today was the day for my special treat. We went to Gordon Ramsay's pub "The Narrow" in Limehouse, London, on the River Thames. It's a nice location. A pretty up-market area, lovely river views and of course a rather expensive Gastro Pub to take your money and make you feel good.
The ...
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Saturday, April 26th, 2008
We visited a restaurant called Chapter Two for lunch today. Its located in the rather upmarket Blackheath village in South East London. We hadn't booked, and expected to be turned away for that reason - but surprisingly, they were able to fit us in. Wallet was especially chuffed as we ordered from ...
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