Musings on food and drink from the travelling foodies.
Posted in Beer, Hotels, North Yorkshire, Restaurant Pub/Hotel, gastro pubs on Mar 7th, 2010
Sunday lunch is always a good benchmark for trying out new dining experiences and today we discovered a new venue that we definitely want to return to.
Waking to clear blue bright skies inspired us to throw the walking boots in the car and head off for a brisk country walk. [...]
Posted in Beer, Breakfast, Hotels, Restaurant Pub/Hotel, gastro pubs on Mar 6th, 2010
First post of 2010 for Johnny or for this blog ‘first past the post’. We had an invite from John & Mo to join them on a visit to top race horse trainer Charlie Mann’s training stable in Lambourn, Berkshire. With an early start required we decided to travel down and stay overnight [...]
Posted in Hotels, restaurants on Feb 14th, 2009
We had really great weekend last week which started with an impromptu get together at our house(Julie/Phil/Tess/Pat/Tony) for a tapas night. We started with nibbles from Anthony’s which included Olives, Spanish loin of pork pate, caper berries, balsamic onions, black olive and lemon tapenade, chilli garlic, other stuff and fresh baked breads. The plates were [...]
Posted in Hotels, Italy, food heroes on Jan 27th, 2009
I think I’ve mentioned to everyone that I have a good mate who’s involved with The Well Hung Meat Company. This Devon based business supply some of the finest organic meat in the country and we had one of their turkeys at Christmas and can attest to the quality of the product. Have a look [...]
G an I had a fabulous weekend at this magnificent country house hotel. Set in 38 acres it was an ideal setting for a wedding and the weather was fantastic, frosty and very sunny…Friday eve was spent in the bar area which has a lovely open log fire and a decent wine and drinks list! [...]