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Food, glorious food!
Apr. 18th, 2008 01:51 pmSo, my family and I are going out for a meal next saturday.
Can't think why... ;-)
We were going to go to the new Frankie & Bennys, down the Retail Park side of Cardiff Bay, but Mam tried to call them last week to book a table and they were already fully booked! :-/ So that leaves me with the decision of where to go instead.
Now, traditionally my family have been very regular patrons of chains such as Beefeater, Harvester and Brewers Fayre. But frankly, I'm sick of them. It's been harder and harder each time to choose something from the menu I feel like trying. And they don't even do my regular fall-back of lasagne.
Where I'd really like to go is the Oriental Garden, down the other side of Cardiff Bay (y'know, the Torchwood end *wink*) as I love it there. All-you-can-eat chinese food, including prawn toast! Where can you go wrong? Of course, when I mentioned this to my Mam last week she was all "Well, I don't know if *so-and-so* would like that...", but - as Rachel pointed out over IM this afternoon - it is my birthday. We've gone to The Baron's Court for the last decade or more for Grampy and Uncle Andy's birthdays because they happened to like the place (we even went this year - I was grateful it wasn't as uncomfortable as it could have been, without Grampy there too) but I don't enjoy it there anymore.
It's not even as if I'm expecting to go for the evening sitting, which on a weekend is £13.95 a head per adult *winces* Though, if you think about it, a two or three course meal in the Harvester is probably more than that. No, I'm quite happy to go for the lunchtime session, once Rowan and I are done watching 'Lazytown' at St David's Hall.
Now if I can just talk the 'rents into it....
Can't think why... ;-)
We were going to go to the new Frankie & Bennys, down the Retail Park side of Cardiff Bay, but Mam tried to call them last week to book a table and they were already fully booked! :-/ So that leaves me with the decision of where to go instead.
Now, traditionally my family have been very regular patrons of chains such as Beefeater, Harvester and Brewers Fayre. But frankly, I'm sick of them. It's been harder and harder each time to choose something from the menu I feel like trying. And they don't even do my regular fall-back of lasagne.
Where I'd really like to go is the Oriental Garden, down the other side of Cardiff Bay (y'know, the Torchwood end *wink*) as I love it there. All-you-can-eat chinese food, including prawn toast! Where can you go wrong? Of course, when I mentioned this to my Mam last week she was all "Well, I don't know if *so-and-so* would like that...", but - as Rachel pointed out over IM this afternoon - it is my birthday. We've gone to The Baron's Court for the last decade or more for Grampy and Uncle Andy's birthdays because they happened to like the place (we even went this year - I was grateful it wasn't as uncomfortable as it could have been, without Grampy there too) but I don't enjoy it there anymore.
It's not even as if I'm expecting to go for the evening sitting, which on a weekend is £13.95 a head per adult *winces* Though, if you think about it, a two or three course meal in the Harvester is probably more than that. No, I'm quite happy to go for the lunchtime session, once Rowan and I are done watching 'Lazytown' at St David's Hall.
Now if I can just talk the 'rents into it....
