Ocean Beach
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May 232008
Last Friday we went to Ocean Beach for a romantic meal, the views and sunset were fantastic – in the height of summer when it is possible to sit on the terrace it will be even better (although the menu on the terrace is more limited). I have just about got over my downer on [...]
Restaurants & Pubs in the Southend Area
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Aug 242007
Macaroni Grill
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May 052007
Yesterday evening we all went to Romano's Macaroni Grill at Basildon's Festival Leisure Park, it's an american franchise serving italian american food. The meal was pretty good, but the waiter got a few things wrong like the wrong salad and the boys mains instead of a giant meatball they got bolognese sauce on their spaghetti. [...]
Stefans Brasserie - Review
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Apr 222007
Yesterday evening I took Mandy out to Stéfans Brasserie which is in Westcliff-On-Sea. It was about 15 minutes drive from us. The meal was fairly good, but the service was very slow. It took one hour to get our main courses and with Mandy being pretty tired, because of Freya (she has a cold) that wasn't good. The starters and the desserts were the best thing about the meal.
Starters
Butter Beans Bruschetta Gremolata (wild Roquette, continental parsley and lemon) £5.50 – Good and very garlicky
Seared Peppered Yellow Fin Tuna, Wild Roquette and Vegetable Crisps, Wasabi Paste £5.75 – Excellent: the tuna was a deep red colour, Japanese with a French influence
Mains
Grilled Rib Eye Steak, Pease Pudding and Mature Cheddar Cake, Field Mushrooms and Sherry Sauce £17.95 – Overwhelmed by the sauce, couldn't distinguish the individual flavours
Roasted Barbary Duck Breast, Celeriac Puree, Prune and Cabernet Sauvignon Sauce, Parsnip Crisps £15.50 – Pretty non-descript and a fairly small portion.
Desserts
Lemon Tart, Raspberry Sorbet, Honeyed Mascarpone £5.25 – Good pastry and exquisite lemon flavour. The sorbet was beautiful.
Crème Catalan, Winter Berries Compote £5.75 - Lovely crème brûlée with loads of real vanilla.
We also had the worst seat in the house and I was facing a wall next to the stairs. The ambience was fairly good until they turned on the Barry White which didn't really compliment a French restaurant.
We may try the brasserie again, but this time for lunch.
Happy Easter
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Apr 082007
Today we are on our way to pick up the boys from my parents. We were supposed to go yesterday, but Mandy and Freya have had a bad cold or flu (depending on your perspective). We did venture out yesterday (Saturday) to the Pearl Dragon and had Dim Sum which was good. I think I [...]
Mandy's Birthday Meal
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Mar 112007
Yesterday evening we took the two boys to Pizza Express. Grandma and Grandad babysat Freya. It was a really good meal – even if some people had no table manners! Ross was extremely full by the end of the meal. His stomach was swollen and looked like it was going to burst.
A Chinese
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Mar 032007
We all went to Basildon's Festival Leisure Park for a chinese buffet meal at Aroma. We got there just in time because there was a massive queue outside when we left at about 7pm. This probably the best meal we have ever had as a family and everyone was on their best behaviour. This certainly [...]
Media Shed and Chinese
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Feb 022006
This morning I collected a kind donation of PCs, monitors, tape backup drives and many more IT bits and bobs. I then took these to the MediaShed and then returned home for the boys. Here is a picture of two Linux hackers doing their stuff! Then it was off to a chinese restaurant – 'The [...]