Saturday, October 20, 2007

Eric the Geordie

We went out with Paul’s old mentor from way back when he was an apprentice. We went here and the food was amazing and I don’t get to say that often. We have been lots of times before as it is the in laws favourite place to eat. I have always found it boring…over priced and over rated, and the food very very average. Last night was the complete opposite. They have a new French chef and he has worked wonders with the place. I had a chicken pate starter which was lovely and fresh tasting, not too smooth not too course, the red onion chutney wasn’t as nice as mine, but hey you can’t have everything. For main course I had fillet steak cooked medium rare with a dolcelatte sauce, it was out of this world…amazing!!! For dessert I had vanilla crème brulée which was good. All in all we had a fantastic meal from the scallops in a pernod sauce that Granddad had to the Italian chicken that two of them had for their mains, right through to Paul’s banoffee pie, which was a light and modern version of a traditionally heavy going pud!

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