Just like the birds, our artists come back in the autumn! Presumably, they like many of us prefer Norfolk when it's just that little bit quieter. Very good to catch up with everybody's news. It also leads to eating out a bit more often... and it's then that the changes that affect every pub and restaurant come to light. The pub that I have glowingly recommended over the summer months may have lost its chef, or been sold to someone else or...
TripAdviser got more than its fair share of coverage a few weeks back, with Hoteliers alleging abuse. Whatever the truth in this, it can cause problems. One of our artists decided not to book into the most obvious choice here due to something he'd read, and booked into another establishment a little further afield in Blakeney. Asked to join him and his wife for supper, I think we were all somewhat surprised to find at 7.30, the menu shrinking before our eyes. Given that I believe this is a daily menu, we were taken aback to find that even at this early hour there was only 1 of each of two of the main courses! We might have forgotten this - putting it down to an unforseeable early rush, but strangely the same thing happened with the wine list - with an apparent shortage of Chardonnay. Oh well. What we eventually got did taste ok. I can only hope that breakfast was not similarly afflicted.
Ironically, I suspect that the dodgy review that lead to this was just that - dodgy!
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