Being a foodie! With a figure to match. A connoisseur of good food beautifully cooked and presented.
What and where, are the best recommended restaurants in a radius of say- 20 miles?
Brian.Guy
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Posted by Anonymous to swanage view at 5/23/2006 11:49:17 AM
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Careful Brian, I think you will find most restaurant staff have the misfortune not to be born anywhere near Swanage, and in a lot of cases not even in the UK.
Are they worthy enough to cook and serve your food?
If I were you I would boycott these places.
I think you've missed the point what Brian is worried about is going more than 20 miles from the haven of Swanage. Who knows what he'll find if he should, perish the thought, leave Dorset
As another soul said here. A sensible subject, with a just plain stupid reply.
As to leaving Dorset? Perhaps I have seen a great deal more of the world than this sarcacstic poster has?
Why is it? that when we have the usefullness of a facility like "Swanage View" To discuss things of interest to all that live here, we always have one to try and spoil it for everyone?
A great shame..for it is obvious that another great idea has just bit the dust.
Brian there is an italian resturant on the quay in wareham right to the corner great food pasta pizza seafood eaten there lots always nice family run place aswell
hey brian I have invented a time machine it would allow the you to take the sarcastic idiots back to 6th june 1944 i bet it would not be their mouths that were flapping but another part of their anatomy mate..... enjoy the pasta resturant
Thank you very much for that information about the wareham place.
I am sure that info like that would be a great help to those that holiday here.
As to the Normandy fare. I am always wary of bringing up those times.
But you are right. I would love to borrow your time machine, though I am not so sure if I want to go back there myself to that time, for it was a bit traumatic and very dangerous to say the least. I remember very clearly the disgusting dehydrated food we lived on.
I do have a graphic description of a meal I "enjoyed" while sat in the bottom of a fox hole, while the war continued overhead.
I think it is dead funny, but again I am wary. This not the place to tell it.
Thanks for the info, I will certainly try that out...
Brian
Try the New Inn at Church Knowle, great food and beer and a skittle alley if there's a crowd of you. Gets very busy.
Regards,
Mark
Thanks Mark. Forgot about Church Knowle
It is some time ago, (Last summer) but I did find that the "Piddle Inn" at Piddletrentide served a fine meal. I dont know if they are still in the same hands though?
Businesses change hands at such a rate these days, it is best to find out first.
Brian
Excellent idea! As someone has observed businesses seem to change hands frequently so a recommendation could swiftly be out of date. Castle Inn, Corfe is under new management and seems very good value for money, quality at a reasonable price. Moonlight Bistro is also very good, booking advisable! The Granary, Wareham Quay is good, book to get a window seat. The Fox Inn also in Corfe is really good, booking also advisable. How about that for a starter? Enjoy!!
It must sometimes be difficult for restaurants in a tourist area to keep focussed on quality when potential customers have nothing more to go on than the prices on the menu and the appearance of the place. Visitors often ask me for recommendations and there is an interest in quality whch needs to be encouraged.
In some places you can get a good idea from where the Rotary Club and similar organisations dine.
Perhaps the answer is for some of the local foodies to establish an eating out club, dine or lunch in the various establishments and award an annual prize, or range of prizes, for the best ones. Why not have a food weekend when the prizes could be announced as part of a festival of Purbeck Food. The County Council already invests a lot of money in a Dorset Food Directory and it fits in with this.
This would also encourage restaurants to use Dorset food which would give them a distinctive product to offer their customers.
Interesting post. I would like to see a restaurant quality system put in place, rather like the Hotel Stars. I know that there was one such system. But it has largely gone out of practice.
Brian.
Just a note connecting food and nostalgia. You can tell a lot about a place by the smells. When I was a kid the dominant smells in the town centre were stale beer first thing in the morning while the pub floors were being mopped followed by a good few hours of boiling cabbage as lunch was brewed in the cafes. These days its the odour of frying oil drifting around at all hours. We still have a little way to go before Swanage becomes symonomous with fine food.
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