Looking at the ingredients in the fridge, I came up with a kind of quick paella for lunch, with mushrooms, a bit of pancetta, fresh sweetcorn and paella rice. A sort of posh savoury rice, but really tasty.
We went out for a Friday night dinner at Cote in Clifton. We'd been before and it didn't seem bad for a chain, but sadly, this time it was distinctly disappointing. I had a really nice tuna carpaccio to start, but things went downhill from there. We'd both gone for sirloin steak with Bernaise sauce, but when they arrived, the steak was cold, chewy and pretty tasteless and the cold pot of sauce was more like mayonnaise from a jar - it certainly didn't melt into the buttery sauce it should be when dolloped on the steak. The waitress made the usual perfunctory enquiry about how our food was, but when I told her what I thought, didn't really have a reply. She said she'd tell the manager, but no one ever came to speak to us and nothing more was said. Even when we asked for the service charge to be removed from the bill, no comment was made and certainly no apology was forthcoming. I did think of making a fuss, but didn't want to end the evening on even more of a sour note, so let it pass. A poor steak is disappointing (especially at almost £20!), but such rubbish service is unforgivable ... don't think we'll bother going back.
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