Great meal out

Is it a good cookbook? I've had it on my Amazon wish list for ages but I don't actually know if it's worth having or not.

I think the recipes look too complicated for lazy old me, but I'll go have a look - I have the Green World cookbook - there are some recipes with several stages or parts, which is why I have likely avoided it.

But there are also some yummy looking recipes that seem simpler. I think I'll give it a go this week or next to try something out of there. I have so many recipe books that some just get untouched.

I met up with some friends in Birmingham today. My oldest childhood friend from California, Stacy and her brother Donald came to the UK because they're travelling from NYC, to here to Germany and then to Ireland and then back to the States. We have a friend named Jennifer who lives in Birmingham, so, we all met up there. We had a nice lunch at Cafe Rouge. I had a  goat cheese salad, and penne pasta with smoked salmon, and passion fruit syllabub for afters. I was pleasantly surprised. Has anyone else had a good meal out as well?

I think there must be a lot of differences between one branch and another because we had a pretty nasty lunch last week at the Cafe Rouge in Knightsbridge. I had a pasta thing in a mushroom sauce that was completely tasteless. I don't think there was any seasoning in it at all. Blech.

But we did have a lovely evening meal at Arcadia, off Kensington High Street. It's a little Italian place and my pasta there was incredible!

Red Chilli - authentic Beijing and Sichuan food with locations in Manchester, Bacup (Lancashire), Atherton (Lancashire), Leeds and York.

Rick Stein's Seafood Restaurant in Padstow.

IN. CREDIBLE.

My mom and dad went there and apparently it is "out of this world" ....I gotta try it out.

Well I was a big fan of my meal I had at Claridges (Gordon Ramsay) in February.  We even got a tour of the kitchen!!! (Awesome!) Good thing I live nowhere near London or I'd have some serious trouble staying away.

I did, on Monday, have an excellent dinner at the Mustard Seed.  It uses local produce and meats and its extremely reasonably priced and very good. 

I did, on Monday, have an excellent dinner at the Mustard Seed.  It uses local produce and meats and its extremely reasonably priced and very good.  

Reminds me of The Mustard Pot in Leeds, but I guess this should go in the pub recommendations thread!  

http://www.themustardpot.com/