Went away to Suffolk for the bank holiday, and stopped off for food at a couple of Good Pub Guide pubs. We went to the picturesque little town of Lavenham on Sunday, where we had lunch at the Angel. After walking off our lunch around the shops, we went on to Bury St Edmunds, were we stayed at the similarly-named Angel Hotel. And then, today, we stopped off at the White Hart for lunch on the way back.
Did a weekend trip to the Cotswolds and Chilterns over Easter for some fresh air and countryside, and popped into a couple of nice foodie pubs while we were there. On Saturday, we went to the Kings Head, a small, quiet little dining pub in Wootton, which does absolutely fantastic food: I had a delcious warm duck breast followed by pork medallions and then cheese, and the pigeon breast and lamb shanks also looked great. Best of all, it has chintzy sofas you can sink into before and after your meal. The next day, after a walk around the bizarre Chilterns Sculpture Trail, we went for Sunday lunch at the Fox & Hounds on Christmas Common, which has an absolutely tiny bar where the staff constantly trip over each other, but does a great pork roast with crunchy crackling.
Memo to self: must do more trips to the countryside.
Adrian ever changing like a butterfly
We managed a trip out to Frithsden on the Ashridge Estate just north of Hemel Hempstead this weekend. We have some lovely food – I had ribeye steak with garlic and herb butter, parmentier potatoes with bacon, rocket and shalot tempura (posh onion rings….) – very nice – I think dave had a lovely looking pork belly.
Afterwards we went for a little walk and saw fungus and deer – it is nice to be in the country side. I picked some sloes to make sloe gin with too!
Very enjoyable!
Leave the city and head out to a country pup for a lunch on the weekend – yummmmm.
