On a wet, chilly and rainy Monday morning we found ourselves in a car park in Bath sitting in our steamy vehicle. Our challenge? To return home to Ludlow while taking in a good lunch en route, so I’d have somewhere new to review. [singlepic id=262 w=320 h=240 float=right]And so began a trawl through the …
April 2012 archive
Review: The Bath Priory
This guest post was written by: Maureen [singlepic id=258 w=280 h=210 float=right]”Sam is suffering from a leg injury, sustained while training for a cycling event”, said our waitress. “We’ve persuaded him to stay home the last couple of days but he insisted on coming in today for your kitchen visit”. So he did. And patiently …
Smoked bacon fudge
[singlepic id=255 w=280 h=210 float=right]I am always most delighted by a restaurant that breaks new ground, taking food in a direction I have never encountered before. That’s probably because I have a well developed sense of adventure, and whereas an element of natural timidity steps in to prevent me going skydiving over the Sahara, when …
Raspberry leather etc.
[singlepic id=252 w=280 h=210 float=right]Tonight’s dinner was a fairly typical example of my style of cooking. Have an idea and run with it. Make it up as you go along, drag the laptop out to the kitchen half way through because you realise you need a recipe for one of the elements. Make tonnes of …
Review: Noma, Copenhagen
[singlepic id=224 w=280 h=210 float=right]Noma is all about ideas, playing with convention, with ingredients, with presentation. With an objective eye I would have to say that the results are not always conventionally delicious. Those more challenging dishes become delicious through the medium of a palate that is hungry for new experiences, possibly even slightly jaded …
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