Eating out & Formerly Fine Dining

[Eine Alpensinfonie]

I recommend The Pipe and Glass, a Michelin Star restaurant at South Dalton, north of Beverley.

[Richard Tarleton]

Yesterday morning, my neighbourhood Italian cook (chef) was chatting with his nephew outside the restaurant at the 'smokers' table' (not smoking of course, but they provide a table) and, yes, he did ask me how I was - and whether I'd like a coffee. I stopped, chatted about what was wrong with my pizza dough (mustn't use a roller, for one thing), drank my coffee and then went on my way. Tomorrow or next day I'll drop in for lunch and I don't care if the bread is on the table cloth. And I take guests there. As dining, it's more life-enhancing than fine.

"The best restaurant in the world, I reply boringly , when boringly asked, is the nearest restaurant to your home..." - Giles Coren. AA Gill writes in similar terms....get to know your local, make friends with them, go there regularly, or at least at regular intervals.....

And as the late Michael Winner used to say, often: "I book tables, not restaurants". As Coren more or less puts it, it is the first law of restaurant filling that they will put you, when you arrive, in the least good table, because you're a sure thing - that's that table dealt with, they can keep the best one in case Stephen Fry or Mariella Frostrup drop in unexpectedly, although they're probably actually in Mustique....

There's less choice hereabouts, but we're blessed with a great gastropub, always get our favourite table without having to ask for it....

[jean]

I've even been known to remove my knife and fork from my plate, and place them on the paper tablecloth to use again for the next course …

That's t he French way, isn't it? And very sensible, too.

[vinteuil]

I've even been known to remove my knife and fork from my plate, and place them on the paper tablecloth to use again for the next course …

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That's the French way, isn't it? And very sensible, too.

... it is a French way, and yes, very sensible : saves on the washing up and all that. Whether paper tablecloths are ecologically sound, I don't know.

Another French way is to use knife-rests, porte-couteaux. Works on a bare table, or with a table-cloth. I am sad they have fallen out of use.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Knife_rest

[MrGongGong]

This



and this



Are both worth visiting IMV

As is this

[ferneyhoughgeliebte]

Where, where and where, MrGG?

[MrGongGong]

Where, where and where, MrGG?

Stibbington Diner on the A1 near Peterborough, open 24 hours
St John in Spitalfields (good for the crispy pigs ear)
Diwana in Drummond street round the back of Euston station, Dhosa heaven

[french frank]

That's t he French way, isn't it? And very sensible, too.

It certainly used to be. My recent experience is that I always get it wrong. If I put them on the table for the next course, the waiter will silently collect them up and put them on the plate, which he then takes away. If I leave them on the plate, the reverse: he'll pick them up and lay them on the table to be used again Fine dining indeed.

[teamsaint]

Lock Inn Bradford On Avon.

http://www.thelockinn.co.uk/

amazing breakfast, including a fabulous vegetarian option.

you have to use the same knife for your full English and your toast though.

It is a concession to the EU, I think.

[P. G. Tipps]

Can't beat the Scots-Italians for proper nosh, especially this place ...

http://www.nardinis.co.uk/

[MrGongGong]

Aaah if its Scotland you want then this is good



(it's funny how many Fish & Chip shops are "#1" not forgetting the Aldeburgh chip shop wars)

[P. G. Tipps]

Aaah if its Scotland you want then this is good



(it's funny how many Fish & Chip shops are "#1" not forgetting the Aldeburgh chip shop wars)

The sky is much bluer in Largs, Mr GG ...

[Eine Alpensinfonie]

"The best restaurant in the world, I reply boringly , when boringly asked, is the nearest restaurant to your home..." -

The best in the world?

I know which one I think is the best in the world: Maȋson de Navarre in Sauveterre de Bearne in S.W.France. It's 12 years since Frau A and I went there, but we agree that we've yet to find anywhere better.

[Nick Armstrong]

Stibbington Diner on the A1 near Peterborough, open 24 hours
St John in Spitalfields (good for the crispy pigs ear)
Diwana in Drummond street round the back of Euston station, Dhosa heaven

The first on that list is the only one which has never received my custom.

I agree about the excellence of the other two

[MrGongGong]

The first on that list is the only one which has never received my custom.

I agree about the excellence of the other two

This is another classic (and handy for the RFH)