Your last restaurant meal

So glad you asked this, 2 weeks ago had about the best meal out we've ever had. Stunning special treat at Northcote Manor, Langho, near Clitheroe. Somewhere we've wanted to visit for ages. Lived up to the reputation.

My meal (I can remember almost every detail!)

Quail breast/field mushroom/poached quail egg and intense savoury jelly sort of open 'sandwich' on toast.

Roast white beef (is that actually veal?) plus sweatbreads in yorkshire pudding, horseradish mash and cabbage shoots.

Melting ginger pudding, ice-cream

My wife ate just as well including a Strawberry Souffle with strawberry jelly that was spine-tinglingly intense and fresh.

All beautifully cooked, perfectly presented. A real treat, and frankly when I think of the times I've had disappointing meals for 2/3rds of the price it was not that expensive.

Rasher,

All very interesting but what about the waitresses?

Just discovered this in our neck of the woods. It is where the local Thai people eat as it has the most aunthentic Thai food around.

Thai Connection

Beef and Chinese 5-spice stir fry with crunchy peppers, courgettes, bamboo shoots and steamed white rice at The Inn in Freshford last night.

Tasty meal but the broth in the stir fry was very bland. I suspect my curry hating friend who placed the order specifically asked them to add only the mildest dash of spice and blithely extended the 'advice' to my meal too. I hate it when he does that.

Meal accompanied by live jazz (a feature of every Thursday night).

Best,

Rich.

Big Mac meal.

Mark

Tandori Knights in Melton on Wednesday with Peter (Cymbiosis), very nice,

Regards

PB

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Originally posted by Chillkram:
Big Mac meal.

Mark

Now its my turn to feel sad for you.

Just thought I had to bring the tone of this thread down a tad, Erik.

I've not actually had a McDonalds for some years.

Mark

Chaps

Went out last week to a newly opened Italian restaurant with a friend and our two wives.

Had a couple of gin and tonics to start off.

Had a garlic pasta dish as a starter.

Steak tournedous rossini plus veg

Washed down with two bottles of barolo.

Nice expresso coffee with a large brandy.

left there and went onto our club.

Had a few whiskies and went home.

Very enjoyable evening

Regards

Mick

Jesus, Mick, you're going to end up like me! You're some kind of piss-artist I'll give you that!

EW

EW

The two bottles of wine was split between four of us.

Regards

Mick

Hmm...

About 3 weeks ago, a lovely little steakhouse which seems to have changed little in style since the late 70's (still owned by the same folk).

They have an A-Board outside with the phrase "Steaks as big as you like!"
They're not kidding.

I had a larger than normal fillet (500g!!!) and the lady enjoyed a Porterhouse, preceeded by a sardine starter, polished off with profiteroles, and backed up by a nice cognac.

A truly cholesterol based evening - sublime and hopefully soon to be repeated.

Last week at my favourite local French cafe, I had a wonderful Vichyssoise, Escargot a light salad with vinegarett plus fruity light French Chablis.

I've been there for over 20 years!

More interseting and most pretentious meal I had of late was at Tru .

The menu was all fixed. I gtt to choose from choice of three courses. They call it Mediterranean French.
My friend chose to do the thing call *chef's choice* which they don't tell you what they are going to feed you.

No thanks. I am not that adventurous.

All total after 10 course meal plus 8 glasses of wine ( I only had a sip of each ) and 4 hours! later , I thought that a presentation was more interesting than the meal itself.

Fortunately, I was with good friends, so I had a wonderful time for the duration.

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Originally posted by erik scothron:

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Originally posted by Chillkram:
Big Mac meal.

Mark

Now its my turn to feel sad for you.

erik,

Everyone has a Mac Attack every now and then.
I love thier MacRib personally in spite my mate's horror.

What's worse than a Big Mac is The White Castle .

It's a steamed hamburger and said to be good for a hang over.

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Originally posted by kuma:
Everyone has a Mac Attack every now and then...

Really?


James

(Sorry about horrid smilies, but after the serious sense of humour failures some members seem to be having with my posts in this Forum - though Erik, at least, seems to get them - thought I'd better emphasise that I typed this with a grin on my face, and a happy heart! J)

Pizza Hut with the kids.

(Deep mistake - PH, not kids! - for sanity (and food's) sake, it's wellworth reaching just a little bit deeper into the pocket and going to Pizza Express.)

James

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Originally posted by Mick Parry:
Chaps

Went out last week to a newly opened Italian restaurant with a friend and our two wives.
Mick

You both have 2 wives? Must get expensive!!

Chaps

Went out again last night, just the two of us this time to another Italian restaurant with a nice open air conservatory.

Started with a couple of gin and tonics.

I had anti pasta to start

Grilled monk fish with veg

Washed down with a bottle of Bordeaux

Light Italian ice cream afterwards.

Expresso coffee and Brandy

Very enjoyable.

Regards

Mick

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it's wellworth reaching just a little bit deeper into the pocket and going to Pizza Express

I agree consistant and reasonable food. Helps to know if you are in a strange town with no accesss to a local for advice.

howard

The Bell Inn, Tillington, Hereford last Thursday with Fredrick Fiske.

We had what is probably the finest/tastiest cod, chips and garden peas I've ever had.

This was followed by an equally splendid summer fruits crumble and ice cream.

Nothing flash, but really enjoyable.

The essential ingredient as ever, was good company.

John.

I quite agree! Best food out I have had for a good long (couple of years!) time. And yes the best ingredient is the company. Thanks for it.

Kindest regards from Fredrik

IOM company is a huge part of any dining experience, it's great that in Britan we not only have some of the finest dinning experiences ie Ramsey & The Fat Duck to good old local pubs serving some excellent food
My best recent meal was at Simpsons in B'ham - certainly the best food in town

Went to an Itailian place last night with a bunch of friends who are over from Northern Ireland. There were 7 of us. The wine was appalling, even though we chose 3 different reds, they all tasted like Retsina. The food was less than average. Fab night as we don't get together too often, and we finally parted at 2.00am, but next time we'll find a diferent place to eat.
I had squid to start, which was okay, and then halibut, which was on the way to being dry.
I'm off to another Italian place tomoroow late afternoon, so I'll do better with a pizza, and I'm off for a curry somewhere with a buddy on Tuesday evening, so we'll see how that goes.

Last resturant meal...

Hmm, it was is at Asia Live Restaurant in/on/at (? ) Marriott Doha in 2004. I had Peking Duck. Great food.

(Boring country, but my parents lived there. )


1. class on the flight between Doha and Amsterdam, since the Qatar Airways-plane was overbooked. But its better than tourist-class . Good food there too.

Just returning from a Caribbean Cruise, the last 8 or so days have been "restaurant" meals.
While we had a great variety of foods (shipboard and local, some of them quite good, some with great presentation and all in even better company) I'm looking forward to breakfast in my kitchen where I'll have a strong cup of freshly ground coffee and a couple of eggs cooked in butter that is just on the verge of burning with a dash of sea salt and a generous coat of freshly ground pepper... And share it with my wife while the kids sleep.
Home will be a welcome site.
David

Why going at the restaurant, when you can dine better at home!

Yesterday was the Fettucine with shrimps and alfredo sauce, accompanied with a fresh garden salad (Red curled salad, cucumbers, tomatoes with basil & parmegiano dressing), buttered garlic ciabata bread and some cheddar cubes on the side. No wine, i don't drink alcohol, i had a glass of icy cold Coca Cola with this! The dessert was Maple chunks ice cream with tea cookies.

Another advantage to dine home, you choose the mood with your own music, and it's not played on a cheap boombox!

Bye.