Author: footloose

Cornwall is a popular, must do destination for visitors to the UK. As is the traditional hospitality, pub food and real Cornish ales found at one of the oldest pubs in the UK, The Crown Inn Lanlivery.

Offering simple hearty dishes all their meat, seafood and fresh produce is all sourced locally.

The braised beef is excellent as are the homemade hamburgers.

Simple tasty traditional pub food

Served with a choice of either Sharps or Skinners real Cornish ales

In front of a open log fire on a cold winters day. Hard to beat. Well worth a visit.

Cradled in an indigenous setting surrounded by tranquil gardens overlooking the Klein Piesang River populated with water lilies and a range of birds, you will find the restaurant Liv Green at River Cafe. They offer a 2 course Sunday Lunch as well as an ala carte menu with a range of Smoothies and Fresh Juices to light meals
The setting is fantastic and soon lulls you into a relaxing and enjoyable frame of mind.
There is a jungle gym and water slides close to the restaurant where the kids can play. Inside there is a cosy fireplace for cold winter days.

On a day like this Tom Kha Gai is what I normally order from the Thai Kitchen. Today however I wanted something different. And the House of Flavour in George is a good hour away.

Which restaurants besides the Thai Kitchen, in and around Knysna offer a winter menu and an exciting choice of soups?

The fist time I came across a scotch egg with black pudding was when I was in Oxford. I was busy, in a bit of a rush. But paused to glance through the menu outside a pub in one of the side streets.

I couldn’t stop. Just made a mental note to pop back another time.

Which I never did.

I then got my chance to try one a few weeks later at The Croque Shop in Brighton.

And again at the Farmers Market in Chichester which is held every first and third Friday each month.

Nothing can beat freshly caught fish grilled over hot coals and if you are in Knysna you need to find a place close to Hartenbos if I remember correctly.

“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.

Welcome to holdthelettuce.net, the canvas for the edible adventure that is my life. The tale begins in London, UK and will wander around the UAE before heading down under to Sydney and then finally to the USA, where I will be setting up camp permanently!

For me, having travelled pretty extensively throughout my 22 years, travel is inescapably tied to food, hence the decision to finally document these culinary experiences as my gallivanting continues over the next 7 months. In my opinion, there is nothing better than immersing oneself in the lifestyle of a new place by EATING (except maybe drinking…).

Those who say ‘food is for fuel’ are people with whom I wholeheartedly disagree. Eating has been a social activity for too many generations to count and will continue to be an inherent part of our society for the simple reason that people love it and it brings them together.

With that small introduction I leave you to peruse my blog, which will (if all goes to plan) be updated every week with my favourite newly-discovered hotspots, always visited with an appetite and my trusty Eastpak.

Food (and wine) is love.
holdthelettuce.net

Travel Bugs – your local eatery and garden cafe is the best kept secret on the Garden Route All our food is freshly prepared, our service attentive and the atmosphere peaceful and relaxing. Our salads have created their own reputation; we bake our own whole wheat and white bread; and our menu is full of surprises. The beautiful garden with its fountains and running water create a peaceful eating experience in the heart of George. On Saturday mornings we are available for small functions such as baby showers, birthdays and kitchen teas. To inspire your next travel holiday, we stock a full range of Lonely Planet Travel Books and maps. Travel Bugs is on the Garden Route Culinary Awards list of top 20 restaurants and is also recognised as a culinary legend, their highest award.

Beautiful, FRESH Tuna loin- Rubbed in Sesame seeds, pan seared, served on a bed of greens, with wasabi, ginger and Soya sauce. This is truly heavenly. While stocks last.

Set along the Piesang valley river,this tranquil setting is the ideal place to relax. The cheese cake is like no other and all the meals prepared here have a special flavour that sparks excitement to your taste. A Jungle gym and hammock for the kids to play

Knowing full well we were unlikely to find a table, we made our way down to the The Beach. We were right. The best we could do was a bar stool, a counter table and coffee.

We then made our way a little further down the beachfront, with a turn into the first side street, to find Toast. It was also busy. So I did my second coffee of the day at an outside table, whilst we waited.

A small traditional English cafe that packs everything you would expect into a homely, comfortable space.