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Review: L’Artisan, Cheltenham
[singlepic id=657 w=280 h=210 float=right]Zut alors! Zis restaurant is outRAGEously French! From the lace curtains in the window to the peppering of French words scattered into our interactions with the staff (“Bon soir, would Madames et Messieurs like to seet down?”), L’Artisan feels like a glorious throwback to the time when eating French food was …
Review: Curry Corner, Cheltenham
[singlepic id=656 w=280 h=210 float=right]Curry Corner is just around the corner from the famous Cheltenham Banksy. Okay, famous in Cheltenham at least – there’s a gallery near us that offers canvas prints of the clever stenciled image of two shady GCHQ operatives apparently listening in on a telephone box, and get this, they’ll even photoshop …
Review: L’Enclume, Cumbria
[singlepic id=652 w=280 h=210 float=right]In Cockermouth we ate in a “fine dining vegetarian restaurant”. I won’t embarass the Quince & Medlar by naming it, but this was fine dining like an earnest attempt at a dinner party by your vegetarian student friends. A couple of days later we had an amazing dish of potato and …
Review: Cottage in the Wood, Cumbria
[singlepic id=643 w=280 h=210 float=right]It looks like red squirrels are making a comeback – we saw signs up all over the Lake District telling us to watch out for the little nut-munchers as we drove about, although the only place we actually saw a red squirrel was in the garden of The Cottage in the …
Review: Menu Gordon Jones, Bath
[singlepic id=637 w=280 h=210 float=right]”Make sure you don’t complain about anything,” offered our Bed & Breakfast owner helpfully when we told her we had dinner booked at Menu Gordon Jones. “He’s got a bit of a reputation…” This came as a surprise to me, as I knew nothing much about Gordon Jones except that he’s …