Food, glorious food….

I am not sure that I can do the day justice today. I don’t have the words – for a change, I hear you say!! So a short Blog….

I was up early, having heard the bin men banging about outside and having suddenly remembered that we hadn’t put the bins out…. too late, they were halfway up the road and our green bin was still out the back. I did manage to get the general waste bin out though….

I was pleased to have leapt out of bed early. We were taking a trip. We had booked in to the restaurant where Andrew works, and lunch was at twelve.

We got ourselves ready and set off on the dreaded M6/A14, only to find it wasn’t so dreaded after all and we had a good journey enabling us to arrive in good time in Cambridge.

Having arrived early, we sat in the car for half an hour to rest before setting off across Jesus Common to the restaurant. We were still a few minutes early, and so we sat outside in the garden, enjoying the rather balmy weather, listening to a trilling blackbird, and waving and grinning sheepishly to Andrew as he whipped in and out of the stores at the back of the restaurant. The experience had started very well indeed.

I don’t know how to describe the food and the service, but it was all exceptionally good. Not a single item on the menu to turn our noses up at. And the food and drink kept coming – an extremely accomplished tasting menu, served by very pleasant staff – well, I suppose you’d expect that in a two-star restaurant really, wouldn’t you?

We were so engrossed in the food and drink, chatting to the staff, having a tour of the kitchens and shaking hands with the Head Chef, Mark Abbot, and the owner, Daniel Clifford, that we took no photos at all. But here’s the menu and some fellow-chef’s comments about the restaurant, just in case you’re interested……

With our tummies full, we managed a few words with Andrew before we went back to the car. He had no time to stop and chat for long as he busy, busy, busy cleaning down and getting ready for the evening service.

But we were thrilled to have seen him in his natural habitat. Not only that, but Chef, i.e. Daniel, was extremely complimentary about Andrew’s work, going so far as to say that they planned to pin his feet to the floor so that he couldn’t leave as they valued him so much. Well, that was nice, wasn’t it?

We drove home tired, but on a high. We had had a great time. Great memories created today.

• In the meantime, the COVID figures for today were as follows:- (and we hope that there was nothing in our vicinity today…)
  • 15,810 people tested positive for the virus
  • 18 people died in the community with it in the last 24 hours
  • 224 people were admitted to hospital
  • 5 people died in hospitals with the virus on 23 & 24 June
  • 221,534 people were dosed with their first part of the vaccination today
  • 177,813 people were given their second dose.

Stay safe everyone. God bless.