Month: February 2011

It was a really quick lunch.  The business end was honey cured ham served with a Dijon mustard (no, this was Sainsbury’s.  I saved the Grey Poupon for the glove box of my car). The salad had iceberg lettuce, vine tomatoes, purple onion, pumpkin seeds, pine nuts and a...

A friend drove down to Cambridge to visit, and we decided to see if the St John’s Chop House had space.  Yes it did, and 15 minutes later we were sitting down at the table, my preferred one near the window and the old fireplace.  I ordered two dishes...

We had eaten at a Thai restaurant, but wanted a more Western dessert.  The solution was to be found at the Maypole, a Cambridge pub that serves really tasty Italian food with a few other dishes.  Earlier we’d spotted apple crumble among the day’s specials, so we ordered one...

Billed in the guide books as a place with naive charm loved by students, etc., we thought we’d have a fairly good meal on a budget. Wrong… tasty though, but not as good as the cheap and delicious ‘konoba lokanda peskarija’. The meal started with the small complimentary anchovy...

A friend invited me to lunch at St Stephen’s Club near St James Park, and waved a few £30 vouchers he still has left to use before the end of the month. How could I refuse?  We chose to eat in the bar, rather than go downstairs to the...

Not wanting to faff around after a flight and starving of hunger we went to the Proto fish restaurant in the Old Town of Dubrovnik. We knew it would be a bit of a tourist trap as it featured in all the guide books and the 5* Hotel recommended...

Three of us went to Jindalle in Swallow Street near Leicester Square.  We ordered two starters between us.  First was boiled dumplings with pork meat and mixed vegetables (7 pieces), and then pan-fried crabmeat pancake with ‘chef’s special sauce’  (6 pieces).  The dumplings were excellent, the crab pancake was...

I for one love to try lots of new and different places, however, I returned with pleasure to the Lokanda Peskerija to sample more of the menu. We ordered the Octopus salad we’d had the first time as that was the best dish. We then added the shrimp, which...

This small port-side restaurant in Dubrovnik represents excellent value and amazing food. Although it is perhaps not ‘cheap’ by the standards of a chap going to Croatia for a bargain snackette it certainly surpasses anything to be found in England in terms of quality, quantity and cost. These three...

My three companions were all mathematicians, though we mostly talked about philosophy and teaching rather than mathematics.  As we began a bottle of the Stump Jump blend of riesling/viognier, I ordered the scallops with bacon and pea puree.  And what an excellent pea purée it was, too. Then I...