Platelickers

“Do you want to come to a Platelickers supper club with me? Pleeeease… I’ve been wanting to go to one for ages.”
“Where is it?”
“Erm… you don’t find out until a couple of days beforehand.”
“Well, what’s on the menu?”
“Ah, well, it’s a surprise. You don’t find that out until the day. Oh, and you know I said it was a supper club… well it’s at 1.30pm on a Saturday afternoon.”

Sunny and sociable eating

I have to admit, it took a little bit of convincing to get Mr Fussy to sign up with me to Platelickers’ most recent ‘supper’ club. I’d missed out on several due to prior engagements clashing, so this time I was determined. Having received the enticing mailing list email promising a five-course feast of sharing dishes, I sent off my request to join in along with our dietary requirements (fussy), paid the requested £31 per head by PayPal, and duly waited for further info to arrive.

A little while, and much anticipation, later another email clattered into my inbox revealing the venue to be the garden of a popular pub not far from the city centre. Thankfully, the day of the event – the last day of August – brought with it stunning weather. We strolled into the pub’s garden (which was specially commandeered for the event) with our BYO bottle of wine to be greeted by the sight of seven picnic tables placed end to end to form one big sociable table, bedecked with place settings of mismatched antique plates and napkins, and placenames charmingly written on either stripy or spotty tape stuck onto the tables.

Whilst chatting to some of the other 30 attendees, we were welcomed by the two culinary legends who run Platelickers, Jo Kruczynska of Afternoon Tease and Ivana Gresham, aka Miss Igs. Reaching into the large coolbags they were carrying, they handed over the first of the afternoon’s foodie treats, an aperitif cocktail made perfect for a warm summer’s day: a watermelon margarita ice lolly!

Las Iguanas

Butternut squash deliciousness

A friend of mine raves about Las Iguanas – a restaurant chain that has branches from Aberdeen to Bristol and that serves not only Mexican but also other Latin/South American food and drink. It certainly has an interesting menu – ‘The Extraordinary Xinxim’, ‘Henrique Rapadura’ and ‘Churrasco Fiasco’ being just some of their intriguingly-titled dishes. And, with a veggie/vegan menu and a substantial range of wines, cocktails, beers and even their own flavoured cachaças, you can’t go wrong, surely!

Fussy is as fussy does

OK… so I’m a little bit fussy.

Now these are yum!

Let’s start with food. I don’t eat red meat, game, offal… I’m an ex-veggie who now eats chicken and fish. And occasionally ham. There’s no moral reasoning behind this; I just don’t really like the taste of most meat so I choose not to eat it. Mr. Fussy is vegetarian so I don’t cook meat at home but will have it when I eat out. I quite often end up ordering veggie food though as a) I love it, b) it means I can share food with Mr F, c) if a restaurant cares about cooking great veggie food, I’ll really care about them.