Today's lunch

[Marco]

It was such a lovely day, so I decided to eat outside. Del had eaten earlier, but joined me for a drink, after preparing some home-made Chinese munches!

To start: lemon and corriander marinated chicken wings and vegetable spring rolls with a honey and sesame-seed salad, and soy sauce side-dip, accompanied by a tomato, red onion and fresh chilli relish:





Followed by a nice big bowl of salt & pepper ribs, topped with fresh corriander, accompanied by some egg-fried noodles, baby sweetcorn, sugar-snap peas and asparagus:





Yum yum! All washed down with a few glasses of beautifully chilled Côtes de Provence rosé!

Marco.

[Rare Bird]

Don't forget to put that slate back on the roof brfore the rain comes

[Tim]

Don't forget to put that slate back on the roof brfore the rain comes

Eee's a bit posh our Marco, ain't e André

[Marco]

Don't forget to put that slate back on the roof brfore the rain comes

Aye!

Marco.

[Marco]

Eee's a bit posh our Marco, ain't e André

The butler's just out of shot, unfortunately, but the chef was sitting next to me!

Marco.

[Macca]

Don't forget to put that slate back on the roof brfore the rain comes

mmmm salt n chili ribs. I love 'em but my stomach doesn't

I'm having a steak with some bits of cauliflower. Pudding is some beer.

[Marco]

With "some bits of cauliflower"... Love it. Don't try getting a job writing menus for posh restaurants, Martin!

Today's plat du jour:

"A dod of meat covered with some bits of cauliflower" £25.

Mmmm... Appetising!!

Marco.

[Macca]

Well you have to manage the customers expectations don't you? Everywhere you go has these stupid fancy menu descriptions now, even Harvester. Then the food arrives and it's 'WTF?'

And 'Dave' is a TV channel, Marco...

[Marco]

Sorry, Martin (now changed) - too much vino!

Harvester? Oh dear, salmonella city! Soz, I never eat anywhere where they make you pay for your food, FIRST, before you've eaten it!!

Marco.

[Macca]

Nah you pay afterwards. It was that bad one time I did refuse to pay - in fact that was the last time I went. I hate chain pubs and chain resteraunts and always avoid them like the plague but if you are with people who are, shall we say, a little less discerning, then you get dragged along to these places, like it or not.