Musings on food and drink from the travelling foodies.
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 Uncategorized on Feb 22nd, 2009
Well it has certainly been one of those weeks - not had time to do anything than work, eat, drink and sleep. Therefore not much to review on the Troffers front in terms of dining out experiences.
We made up for that with a lovely dinner down at Paul and Carol’s in Calverley. It was very [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on Feb 17th, 2009
We’ve been having a few technical ‘issues’ with the server that the blog sites on, but now they are resolved.
As Gurdev sagely commented ‘we’ve made it, because we’ve had technical problems!’
Posted in home cooking on Feb 14th, 2009
This is a live blog MR DEAN To start we have had Sicilian olives balsamic onions, caper berries, and Manchego cheese. Well the lamb was so mouth watering that Andrew Pern needs to make sure that he still has a job in the morning. Gurdev Singh’s catching you up mate!!
An unexpected invitation to eat with [...]
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 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 Uncategorized on Feb 14th, 2009
Saw this yesterday and really liked the effortless cool the bottles projected. The wine’s probably nice too, I think it’s Californian.
Posted in Uncategorized on Feb 12th, 2009
Just giving Tess a tutorial on how to put pictures up on the blog and discovered this great shot taken at Rick Stein’s fish and chip shop in December 2008.
The oyster frites were sublime (as recommended by Gurdev) and the fresh were magnificent too.
When are we going back guys?
I’m not sure that I agree with the general view on strong tea. The brown stuff is often referred as builders tea, but I don’t know about you I know plenty of people who aren’t builders who like strong tea. In fact in my experience most builders like it milky with lots of sugar. I [...]
Posted in curry on Feb 10th, 2009
I Went with Dawn and my usual monthly curry club friends. We were supposed to be going to the Panshee but it was closed. Akbars the cafe is just round the corner. It’s very plush inside so we sat down to eat. Dawn and myself had the same tonight lamb chops and Chicken Tikka masala [...]