The Food Route

Is the best restaurant in Chichester really, a humble, no frills, takeaway?

Not if you are looking for a comprehensive moderately priced wine list. Not if you are going to judge ‘best’ in terms of ambiance, chic decor and smiling ever attentive waitrons.

But if it’s flavour and originality that makes the difference, The Pass Street Food Cafe is a hard one to beat. Whatever Kacper Osmola has to say.

And if you have to look at a dessert menu there are always the bread & butter dipping fingers around the corner at the Chantry

“We are only one or two generations away from a time when people canned, baked, preserved, made do, swopped produce, purchased locally, re-used and recycled because that’s just the way it was. The knowledge is still there” and stirring in Rheenendal.

Lauren Reynders has started a web site to support the local food producers and to explore for ways to live sustainably, to eat well, laugh a lot, to learn and pass on information and to create bonds of friensdhip within our community. I found it looking for vegetarian restaurants in Knysna and found this reference to “Brett who made the basil pesto. Brett owns a small, intimate vegetarian restaurant just down the Rheenendal road called Veg-Table. It is open on Wednesday and Friday evenings. Bookings are essential 074 833 9516”

She is from Abundance Farm where they have developed and are producing top quality mushroom cultures and grain spawn as well as Mushroom Grow Bags of edible and medicinal mushroom species.

Going out for coffee is precisely that. It is about the setting. What you are doing whilst sitting back and doing different.

Takeaway cardboard cups and plastic lids don’t do it.

 

Hunters Country House offers beautiful seating areas to enjoy the country style fare on offer.

Breakfasts are served in the sunny glass conservatory and offer a selection of tasty treats to start the day. Light lunches are served in the dining room or on the lawns. The outdoor boma with its comfortable couches and fireplace, invites you to enjoy a high tea or a glass of bubbly as the sun sets over the gardens.

We just love stunning, hidden gems like Bistro Celeiro. The venue and views from the ‘stoep’ is spectacular and the food – delicious home cooked meals prepared by friendly owners with care for details and exquisite tastes, and great value for money. Bring your own wine and you’ll have an unforgetable time with friends, family or just yourself…

This is a lovely ‘hidden gem’. Homemade food with local and organic ingredients. The setting is beautiful, with stunning mountain views. Susan and Julio are the perfect hosts, friendly and personable. We love it!

Bistro Celeiro

Chez Cathy et Remy

Emily Moon

Hunters Country House –

One of the first pubs I was introduced to after arriving in the UK was the Black Boy in Winchester.

The sort of Old English pubs where they care more about the quality of their Ale rather than the casual vistor asking for the wine list.

The food is not bad. But it is not great either. It is generally busy. Particularly on Sundays and sometimes it shows.

But it is not the food you are after. Its the bric-a-brac, the pub memorabilia, the Old English tavern type atmoshphere that makes the Black Boy special.

The narrow passages, the books, the tradition and the beer of course.

At Mo’s we know that your dining experience should be more than just “eating out”. It’s about taking time out to satisfy the senses, feed the soul and gather with friends in an ambiance that creates treasured moments and memories.

It’s about delighting you with a unique harmony of taste sensations from our Chef’s choice of carefully crafted dishes that offer the finest experience of real food made from fresh ingredients for consistent quality and value.

It’s about complementing great food with a passion for attentive, enthusiastic and personal service from Staff that understands that our Customers deserve the best that we can offer.

It’s about a mood, a feeling, a connection, a vibe and an energy that makes every occasion at Mo’s surprisingly memorable.

We hope you enjoy Mo’ taste, Mo’ hospitality, Mo’ music, Mo’ laughter and Mo’ fun that you have ever had in your life.

We travelled up to London by train and after we got everything sorted out at the Embassy we went looking for a late breakfast.

Despite reservations, I have learnt not to argue when she is hungry. So I allowed myself to be steered towards a table in what at first appeared to be a traditional English tea shop festooned with garlands of roses.

Yes, it was a tea shop.

Yes, they serve cream teas and offer an exciting array of home baked cakes and pastries. But I needn’t have worried. Because breakfast all but forgotten, what caught my eye was a lentil soup. Slightly spiced and served with a cheesy pastry twist and crunchy bits you toss into the soup.

Although I did also order a croissant with scrambled egg and haloumi. Just as a reminder of why we were there.

Inadvertently we had found our way to Fait Maisson. A French inspired, Palestinian owned, traditional English tea room serving Middle Eastern food from a menu that also offers both traditional English and Middle Eastern breakfast options and possibly the best Maqluba to be found in London.

An interesting experience and the best lentil soup ever