OK, What's For Lunch or Tea Today?

[Marco]

...followed by classic steak au poivre (using Dry-Aged Aberdeen Angus Ribeye), which will be served with homemade potato rosti, pan-fried tender-stem broccoli in garlic and butter, and some fresh vine tomatoes.

This:





And the opposite angle, to showcase the potato rosti, which were just superb, and which I enjoyed almost as much as the steak!



Now *that* was super-scrummy!

Marco.

[struth]

You are a bundle of joy sometimes Grant.

Still alive for now tho.... thats all I can expect.

[Marco]

Ooh, that looks good!

Cheers, Tony. It was!

Marco.

[rmcin626]

Very nice Marco

[Marco]

Cheers, mate. Btw, all the ingredients used to create those dishes, salmon, steak and veggies were bought from Lidl!

Pud is next!

I'll be enjoying it later, once I've allowed that lot to digest.

Marco.

[Jimbo]

Looks a very decent lunch Marco. We are off too one of our favourite restaurants tomorrow for a long lazy lunch so I may post up some pics of the grub. It is a chain restaurant specialising in French classic cooking and your lunch today reminded of its style. I don't usually like the big manufactured chain restaurants which seem to have flourished in the UK but along with Wagamamas which I rate highly for its authentic and cheap no nonsense Japanese food this restaurant is worth seeking out.

I will reveal tomorrow.

[Marco]

Hi Jim,

Cheers mate, it was lovely. I'm fortunate to have a wife that's such an excellent cook

I hope you enjoy your long, lazy lunch, which I'm sure you will, and please do take pics!! We rarely eat at chain restaurants (much preferring small, family-run places), as they're almost always very disappointing. but the place you're talking about sounds intriguing.

The only French chain restaurant I can think of that might compare, is somewhere we occasionally go to in Shrewsbury, called Bistro Jacques: http://www.bistrojacques-shrewsbury.com/

It's decent and pretty consistent!

Marco.

[User211]

Rosti do look excellent, Marco. Just the right degree of crunch by the looks of things.

How did she do them?

[Jimbo]

Hi Jim,

Cheers mate, it was lovely. I'm fortunate to have a wife that's such an excellent cook

I hope you enjoy your long, lazy lunch, which I'm sure you will, and please do take pics!! We rarely eat at chain restaurants (much preferring small, family-run places), as they're almost always very disappointing. but the place you're talking about sounds intriguing.

The only French chain restaurant I can think of that might compare, is somewhere we occasionally go to in Shrewsbury, called Bistro Jacques: http://www.bistrojacques-shrewsbury.com/

It's decent and pretty consistent!

Marco.

Haha, we are in Shrewsbury tomorrow Marco and I know that Bistro very well.

[Marco]

Nice one... You should make a point then, Jim, of going into Tanners (in Wyle Cop) and stock up on wines for Christmas - they have a superb selection! I'll be intrigued to see which French chain restaurant you're talking about

As an alternative (non-French) restaurant, next time, if you don't know of it already, I'd highly recommend The Golden Cross: http://www.goldencrosshotel.co.uk/content/food.html

It's a small boutique hotel, with a superb (tastefully styled and cosy/intimate) restaurant, run by a husband and wife team, where only the best local produce is used, to create some mouth-watering dishes, combined with a well-thought out, reasonably priced wine list.

It's really *the* perfect place for a long, lazy lunch, followed by some coffee and home-made shortbread, beside a roaring log fire, in the lounge of the historic Lion Hotel: https://www.thelionhotelshrewsbury.com/en/

Marco.