Musings on food and drink from the travelling foodies.
Posted in Leeds, Wine, gastro pubs on May 10th, 2010
As a long standing customer of Virgin Wines, we’d got some tickets for their first tasting event in Leeds. I’ve long been a fan of Virgin Wines and I love the different wines and hard to find vintages they have on offer. So we planned a full Troffers outing (apart from Jill who was in [...]
Posted in Beer, Leeds, gastro pubs on Mar 8th, 2010
The weather was simply too beautiful to stay in bed all day (as we had planned) and after the inevitable phone call from G, we decided that it would be a complete scandal if we didn’t make the most of the incredibly crisp and clear day on Sunday.
Depositing a car at Rodley we aimed to [...]
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 Leeds, gastro pubs on Mar 3rd, 2010
I discovered on Monday that it was British Pie Week. So I decided to get into the spirit of things by combining a meeting I had planned in The Cross Keys, with the sampling of their pie-focused menu.
From the blackboard, I ordered the rabbit, leek and mustard pie which sounded most comforting. I wasn’t disappointed [...]
Posted in Beer, Leeds, gastro pubs on May 9th, 2009
As the girls were out dining elsewhere in the city (see separate post) I decided to join a couple of mates for a chilled out session at The Reliance in Leeds. Situated at the top of town on North Street, it’s not quite ‘in’ the city and for my money it’s all the better for [...]
Posted in gastro pubs on Feb 27th, 2009
Lunch at Balmoral!
Not your common or garden Balmoral but The Balmoral at Husthwaite. Where? I hear you ask. It’s a tiny village twixt Thirsk and York. All ancient stone and pantile roofs. Anyway this is a pub/eatery. Very quiet at lunchtimes but apparently busy evenings and weekends. The menu is typically gastro pub fayre but [...]
Posted in gastro pubs on Feb 14th, 2009
Just got back from a fantastic lunch at The Star Inn with Julie. Georgia was off skiing and Josh was working so that was all the excuse we needed to head off to snow covered North Yorkshire to Harome.
I think we’re the only ones out of the Troffers who haven’t been to The Star - [...]
Posted in gastro pubs, home cooking on Feb 9th, 2009
Seems to have been a busy weekend for the ‘Troffers’ with diners spread across the county. We visited our old friends David and Suzanne in the not too snowy Teeside area over the weekend. Our journey started with a trip up the A19 and a lunch stop at the Crab and Lobster (click for link) [...]