Eating Out Archive

  • Review: The Black Dog, Chester, Cheshire

    Review: The Black Dog, Chester, Cheshire

    We’ve stopped at The Black Dog Pub Restaurant a couple of times now for dinner. The first was due to the amount of time we’d already been in the car and not knowing how far from home we were we agreed to stop at the...

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  • Artificial vs Real Cream

    Artificial vs Real Cream

    Recently, every time I’ve eaten out in a restaurant and had dessert the curse of the artificial cream has lost the dessert some serious points. Personally I cannot stand artificial cream. It’s not cream!! (Hence why it’s called artificial). It tastes foul, horrible and I...

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  • Look after the Children

    Look after the Children

    Anyone in the UK is pretty much aware of the whole uproar there’s been over children’s school dinners, and that chef Jamie Oliver has been campaigning to get healthy meals in schools instead of the cheap rubbish they’ve been serving. I never ate school dinners,...

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  • Haggis!

    Haggis!

    Last week we went to Scotland for a few days away. One evening we had dinner at the Solway Lodge in Gretna. To be honest it was the only meal where everything we ordered they had! The previous two nights we’d been met with comments...

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  • My Hate of Parsley

    My Hate of Parsley

    If my food heaven is Ice Cream, then my food hell has to be Parsley. Well okay there are others too, but the one that annoys me so much is Parsley. Why? First off I can’t stand the taste. Usually I would avoid foods I...

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