Thursday, May 10th – Day 6, Bordeaux, Pau Thursday morning we arranged with the lovely people at the Hotel Bord’Eaux to leave our car in their car park until mid-afternoon so that we could go and see la Cité du Vin before heading off to do the two hour drive to Pau, where we would…
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Food 2018 – French Road Trip, Day 5, Une Cuisine en Ville, Bordeaux
Wednesday, May 9th – Day 5, Une Cuisine en Ville, Bordeaux After the old-fashioned formality of le Chapon Fin the day before, this was a whole different kettle of fish! An easy walk from our hotel, the Maison Bord’Eaux, Une Cuisine en Ville is based in one of the old merchant’s houses, and is thus…
Travel 2018 – French Road Trip, Day 4, Etoges, Bordeaux
Tuesday, May 8th – Day 4, Etoges to Bordeaux Tuesday was mostly about getting on the road to fetch up further south, closer to Pau. There was also a suggestion that the weather might be better further south, but I have no idea how it could have been. The sun was shining again when we…
Food 2018 – French Road Trip, Day 3, l’Orangerie, Chateau d’Etoges, Etoges
Monday, May 7th – Day 3, The Orangery, Chateau d’Etoges And so to dinner, for the second dinner of our package, the Menu Gourmande, again to be served in the Orangery at the Chateau d’Etoges. After Sunday’s Menu Decouverte, we were very much looking forwards to it. But first, a table on the terrace where…
Travel/Food 2018 – French Road Trip, Days 1 and 2, Home, Hull, Rotterdam, Epernay, Etoges
Saturday, May 5th/Sunday, May 6th – Days 1 and 2, Home, Hull, Rotterdam, Epernay, Etoges After what felt like weeks and weeks of cold, wet, miserable weather we finally started to see some sunshine as we left home on Saturday afternoon to drive to Hull and get the overnight ferry to Rotterdam, from where we…
Food 2018 Р185 Watling Street, Ten Hands Caf̩, The Ganges, Towcester
11th February to 18th March 2018 – 185 Watling Street, Ten Hands Café, The Ganges, Towcester We’ve been doing a fair amount of local eating again with the start of 2018 and have revisited some old favourites as well as test running some new entrants to the local restaurant scene. With the town growing rapidly…
Food 2018 – Gousto Box (Slow-Roast Duck, Braised Red Cabbage and Dauphinoise Potatoes)
May 2nd 2018 – Gousto Box (Slow-Roast Duck, Braised Red Cabbage and Dauphinoise Potatoes) I know I’ve left it a bit late to post about this, but I think it remains valid given that once every 4-6 weeks I order us a Gousto box, usually after I’ve been away and I don’t want to come…
Food 2018 – Hibiscus, Northampton
Friday, 13th April 2018 – Hibiscus, Northampton And so, knowing we would be out at the Errol Flynn Filmhouse later in the evening, we decided we’d have a second shot at Hibiscus, the fine dining restaurant (their words, not mine, but it is justifiable) tucked away inside the building. We’d booked in early with intent…
Food 2018 – Le Cigalon, London
Monday, 9th April 2018 – Le Cigalon, London Le Cigalon sent me an email inviting me to test drive their new 5 course menu for £29.50 a head (it’s normally £36.50 for 3 courses), which for central London is a massive bargain. Having discussed catching up over dinner with our friend Janice I asked her…
Food 2018 – Elsie’s Cafe “Binner”, Northampton
Tuesday, 27th March 2018 – Elsie’s Cafe, The Lane Restaurant, Northampton I’ve been following Elsie’s Cafe for a while now on social media. Elsie’s Cafe was started as part of a response to The Real Junk Food Project, which led to a group of people who had set up Fruitful Abundance in Northamptonshire to decide…
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