[la gran siete]

http://www.seafoodexperience.com/sea...nt_uk_menu.htm

I shall be having Lobster soup followed by seafood platter ( I hope)

[huwg]

mmmmmmmmmmmmm

I'd still be there tomorrow trying to choose what to have.

[la gran siete]

Originally Posted by huwg

mmmmmmmmmmmmm

I'd still be there tomorrow trying to choose what to have.

I know its always the hard bit.Reckon the bill for 3 will be abpout £130 Its a birthday treat for a friend

[Nick_UK]

Originally Posted by la gran siete

I know its always the hard bit.Reckon the bill for 3 will be abpout £130 Its a birthday treat for a friend

Ahh, trying to get that German bird back in the good books, eh ?

[pantages]

Since moving here last August I have been searching the Boston area for a good restaurant and last night I found it. The Moore's Arms at Frampton serve the best food I have tasted in years. Fresh tasty veg, meat cooked to perfection and 'to die for' deserts. Wonderful service and atmosphere. Highly recommended!

[la gran siete]

Originally Posted by pantages

Since moving here last August I have been searching the Boston area for a good restaurant and last night I found it. The Moore's Arms at Frampton serve the best food I have tasted in years. Fresh tasty veg, meat cooked to perfection and 'to die for' deserts. Wonderful service and atmosphere. Highly recommended!

Think youll find New York has bigger and better choice

[partyweb]

Peasant Soup Mussel & tomato with potato wine herbs etc.

Yesss, I've aways wanted to taste peasant.

[Woodywizz]

Tonight I shall be choosing from one of the many range of delicacies from here.


On a more serious note, I would highly recommend this restaurant - exceptional food in a fantastic venue.

[boyimace]

All you guys into seafood, ring any decent chinese restaurant place a order for Lobster in ginger and spring onion sauce, it is my favourite seafood ever, with just plain boiled rice, it is the best, in my humble opinion.

[signs]

i love seafood, but if i'm honest 95% of the time it's only as good as the sauce you get with it
might have something to do with living in the midlands i surppose

[Garrett]

Originally Posted by Nick_UK

Ahh, trying to get that German bird back in the good books, eh ?

And dont order her:

27 Peasant Soup Mussel & tomato with potato wine herbs etc. £ 4.95

Or she may take it the wrong way, mind you saying its for peasants is the most expensive soup.

Ah just got it as usual them above fleece the peasant.

[Nick_UK]

Originally Posted by signs

i love seafood, but if i'm honest 95% of the time it's only as good as the sauce you get with it
might have something to do with living in the midlands i surppose

"Locally caught" seafood tends to have a strange flavour when you buy it in the midlands

[Chris Muriel]

Originally Posted by pantages

Since moving here last August I have been searching the Boston area for a good restaurant and last night I found it.

There are stacks of good restaurants in the greater Boston area , both privately owned concerns and chains like Legal Seafood.
(My only bad experience in some 20 odd visits to the area was being thrown out of a Chinese restaurant in Woburn Mall area - and that place closed down soon afterwards)

Chris Muriel (whose company HQ is in Norwood, Mass.)

[la gran siete]

Originally Posted by woodywizz

Tonight I shall be choosing from one of the many range of delicacies from here.


On a more serious note, I would highly recommend this restaurant - exceptional food in a fantastic venue.

Sadly a bit out of my way really. Mind you having said that in Sept I'm
going to
http://www.buenayre.co.uk/place.html
which is in Hackney

[la gran siete]

Originally Posted by Nick_UK

Ahh, trying to get that German bird back in the good books, eh ?

sadly no it wont be the German bird altough she is comining to the uK next week with her sister.Two for the price one I hear you say?They are both young enough to be my daughters

[Uridium]

Originally Posted by Chris Muriel

There are stacks of good restaurants in the greater Boston area , both privately owned concerns and chains like Legal Seafood.
(My only bad experience in some 20 odd visits to the area was being thrown out of a Chinese restaurant in Woburn Mall area - and that place closed down soon afterwards)

Chris Muriel (whose company HQ is in Norwood, Mass.)

Think he means Boston, lincolnshire

Used to live in that area ish' (east cambs)

A few miles out of your way but there are some fantastic restaurants on the Lincs/Cambs border around Stamford. Lochfyne in Elton and the Exeter Arms or George Hotel in Stamford itself being favourites

[Nick_UK]

Originally Posted by uridium

Think he means Boston, lincolnshire

Methinks Chris has been doing a little too much exotic travelling ?

[pantages]

Originally Posted by la gran siete

Think youll find New York has bigger and better choice

New York is a small village on the north side of Boston (Lincolnshire) not too far from Maryland. I haven't been to either yet but no doubt will do in due course.

[la gran siete]

Originally Posted by pantages

New York is a small village on the north side of Boston (Lincolnshire) not too far from Maryland. I haven't been to either yet but no doubt will do in due course.

Olde England

[Uridium]

Originally Posted by pantages

New York is a small village on the north side of Boston (Lincolnshire) not too far from Maryland. I haven't been to either yet but no doubt will do in due course.

There's about 12 houses in new york, done some work there once.

Down the road into Norfolk and you'll find California as well on the coast

[Nick_UK]

Drive around the east coast of the US and you'll find loads of town and village names from the UK. Presumably named after them by the first settlers there.

[Chris Muriel]

Originally Posted by uridium

Think he means Boston, lincolnshire

sorry chaps.

I spend a lot of time in the USA one working and, as Nick pointed out, most of the place names are nicked from the UK.

Chris Muriel, Manchester, UK (and there's at least half a dozen Manchesters in the USA)

[barijohn]

Originally Posted by woodywizz

On a more serious note, I would highly recommend this restaurant - exceptional food in a fantastic venue.

Blimey that looks a little posh!!!

I'm a Rusholme man myself!

[Uridium]

Can't be that posh as they've got one in Lecester

[Nick_UK]

Originally Posted by Chris Muriel

sorry chaps.

I spend a lot of time in the USA one working and, as Nick pointed out, most of the place names are nicked from the UK.

Chris Muriel, Manchester, UK (and there's at least half a dozen Manchesters in the USA)

On a "short" drive around New England, you will find Colchester, Salisbury, Richmond, Cambridge, Boston, the Berkshire Hills, Weymouth, Enfield, Worcester County, Berkshire, Hampshire, Middlesex, Norfolk, Essex, Bristol, Plymouth, Barnstaple, Manchester, Andover, Belmont, Bolton, Braintree, Chelmsford, Cheshire, Oxford, Reading....... and many more No wonder Chris gets confused which country he's in !

Of course, they do have some great place names like Mystic too.

[la gran siete]

Well it was a good gastronimic experience we had and I'd give the nosh 8/10.Had Moules Mariniere followed by Boullabaise washed down with a very quaffable Sancerre followed by a rather naughty Chablis. No pudding as for some reason this particluar eatery doesnt offer them. Still I was fairly replete. Bill for three came to £130 , not cheap but at least it wasnt poncey . In fact there were mercifully only two examples pf ponciness-a) mineral weater served in a bottle the shape of a glass cylinder( waitress says to me "this water does taste special" ) and the rolls, one each . Even if it was a walnut one why be so parsimonious? I prefer a basket filled with baguette pieces thank you
The ambience and the clientel was perfectly acceptable to me ie no ponces. Couple of bodybuilders tucking inot a huge platter of seafood at which I gazed at somewhat enviously, a couple of rather rotund cackling women clearly enjoying themselves but on the whole most I would describe as tradesmen types with their missus. It is clear that peoples tastes and expectations have risen in the last twenty years probably due to holidaying abroad. No longer the greasy Joe cafe or the plain meat and three veg for them. Now its John Dory,Dover Sole ,Lobster Thermidor and the ubiquitous Bouillabaise
Furnishing and general decor were also acceptable ie functional without too much ornamentation. I did though suggest to the waitress a line of empty wine bottles on the wall always looks nice and maybe a fishermens net or two just to give hte place a bit of interest.
Anyway I shall be submitting my report to the management tout suite which on the whole will be positive


Now I am off to a wine tasting session at ther local vinyard. Yup we have one just outside Worthing

[la gran siete]

Originally Posted by Nick_UK

On a "short" drive around New England, you will find Colchester, Salisbury, Richmond, Cambridge, Boston, the Berkshire Hills, Weymouth, Enfield, Worcester County, Berkshire, Hampshire, Middlesex, Norfolk, Essex, Bristol, Plymouth, Barnstaple, Manchester, Andover, Belmont, Bolton, Braintree, Chelmsford, Cheshire, Oxford, Reading....... and many more No wonder Chris gets confused which country he's in !

Of course, they do have some great place names like Mystic too.

pennsylvania also has siomilar sounding places ie Reading and Lanchaster both in the county of Berkshire. I think they pronounce it the same way as well

[Chris Muriel]

One that often confuses people :
There is a (relatively) famous Salem witches story so tourists go there to see the area where it all happened; this is Salem, Massachussetts.
(or "Taxachussetts" to the natives who resent the high state sales tax).

But as soon as you cross the state line into New Hampshire on I93, you hit Salem, NH.
There is no state sales sales tax in NH so lots of locals nip across there to go shopping, especially for more expensive items like TVs and beds.
A 2 mile strip of shops has developed to service this need.
So when people ask for directions to Salem, they may get directed to the wrong one.

Chris Muriel, Manchester

[Nick_UK]

Sales tax is the best idea the Americans ever had. Pity they can't standardise on the rates, though.

[pave]

Originally Posted by la gran siete

most I would describe as tradesmen types with their missus. It is clear that peoples tastes and expectations have risen in the last twenty years probably due to holidaying abroad. No longer the greasy Joe cafe or the plain meat and three veg for them.

Had a laugh at this comment....what is a "tradesman type"?

and perhaps there are more different types of places to eat now than there were 20 years ago