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"A reinvention of the traditional country house..."

21/4/2013

 
...is the marketing spin upon which Stoke Place has settled. So Al and I reinvented our traditional weekend, by eliminating the girls from it. Huzzah!
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One of the better photos I took, on a day that turned out to be not bad for taking photos... Against all expectation!
It was one of those Grouponny style Saturday nights away, with  dinner and a bottle of fizz thrown in. Al bought me it for my birthday. To be honest, the appeal was mostly in getting rid of the girls for a night and having other people run around and do stuff for the day - no particular expectations of the dinner, aside from there being three courses of it. This turned out a substantial disservice done to the extremely fine Garden Room Restaurant, which offers cuisine to Michelin Star standards, at rather less than typical Michelin Star prices. Three courses for £45, which were already included in the deal (along with several amuse-bouches).  OK, we near doubled the cost with service, coffee (plus superb petit-fours) and lack of restraint on the winelist, but this was an exceptional meal for the money. Breakfast wasn't half-bad either.

I took some snaps. Inevitably.
Terry Neighbour
22/4/2013 01:18:15 am

Nice menu....I'd have gone Monkfish, Veal Loin & White Chocolate Mousse!!

timfg
26/4/2013 10:43:42 am

The waitress warned us off the white chocolate unless we were really feeling sweet-toothed. And the veal/venison decision was very 50:50 :-)


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