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Not very good at reviews (pap can confirm). My enthusiasm for stuff is limited if it’s not a holiday somewhere tropical so here goes on places to eat. Warning I am vegetarian so likely to not be relevant to most.

I quite like Turtle Bay for cocktails but they’re limited in veggie food and sometimes the food is ridiculously spicey. But love the sweet potato fries.

I recommend Namaste Kerela just around the corner from Turtle Bay and up some stairs. Great for South Indian food. I always have a masala dosa. They used to do one flavour but branched out but I still think the standard one is tastiest.

Both Mango Thai Tapas in Portswood and town are good. Jungle curry blows your head off (never had one, but saw a man nearly cry having one).

Just been once to the Coriander Lounge and had some lovely food but it seems to always be busy and felt a bit rushed to leave.

Piccolo Mondo - always had really good pizzas and pastas there.

La Tavernetta - near Piccolo Mondo and at one point I think both were owned by same guy (may be wrong). We often had our Christmas work dos here. Never had a bad meal.

La Baronia - we ate here twice but found portions small for price and Mexican food not known for it’s veggie options (though I survived in Mexico a whole month!)

The Olive Tree - maybe a bit pricier but food has always been good. Quite a few special occasion meals had there. Meat eaters in family have always been happy there too.

Kuti’s Royal Thai Pier – once had a very poor stodgy meal there and never been back. A sort of weird indian thai hybrid that didn’t work for me.

Fat Fig - more a café but tasty greek food

Pub grub:

The Rockstone – everyone likes this place surely? Been a few times and veggie options tasty and meat eaters in the group rave about it.

The Cowherds - always had good Sunday lunches there.

Had some good breakfasts in Trago Lounge, Ebb and Flow and Wild Lime Bar and Kitchen

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Bloody hell!! She don’t post often, but when she does, my monitor seems a tad too small! :wink:

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Seconded for La Tavernetta. Good wine too. Not a fan of Piccolo’s though.

Originally posted by @Goatboy

For anyone willing to head East and have a bit of a splurge, I can highly recommend 36 on the quay. The food is lick your plate good. We stayed in their little cottage opposite and had lunch and dinner in the restaurant then breakfast in bed for a birthday treat. V.posh.

http://www.36onthequay.co.uk/home.html

I’ll second that - I seem to remember minature pies on the menu - cracking stuff

Would always recommend terravina in ashurst

going to the hand and flowers (Tom kerridge) soon, really looking forward to that

How long was the waiting list for The Hand?

Never have a bad meal at the Kohinor in Portswood, since it went South Indian a couple of years ago. Same people that ran The Gate in Civic Center Rd.

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Originally posted by @Goatboy

Originally posted by @CB-Saint

Would always recommend terravina in ashurst

going to the hand and flowers (Tom kerridge) soon, really looking forward to that

How long was the waiting list for The Hand?

not sure exactly, I think 12 months or something daft. It’s been in the diary for ages.

Oh FFS another really useful thread hijacked by tales of Tokes and his Dogging adventures.

Originally posted by @Intiniki

I quite like Turtle Bay for cocktails but they’re limited in veggie food and sometimes the food is ridiculously spicey. But love the sweet potato fries.

True, they are. I really like the Rastafari Rundown so tend to have that most of the time.

I’m a vegetarian and thinking about it, it’s generally a lot easier to eat out in the city now. After a few years of being restricted to one or two options, I often find it overwhelming to have to actually pick something.

As tips for quick but decent food, Chalk Valley (burgers) and Mexigo (just guess) - both on London Road - do ace grub for about the price of a footlong Subway. No comparison.

Is Emon’s Indian takeaway still going at the very bottom of Shirley Road? Used to get delivery at least twice a week all through the 3rd year of University. Best Indian ever. Giant chunks of chicken, amazing sauce. Lamb Jalfrezi good enough to make a grown man cry. Damn, I’m hungry.

God, I miss decent indian food.

The Goat in Highfield Lane was suprisingly good. A ‘pub’ feel but better than pub food. I had the burger so nothing flash but well made and cooked, Mrs G had very good fish and chips with crushed peas. Yummy fries and the desserts were excellent. Vanilla pannacotta with rhubarb compote and homemade bakewell tart with sour cherry sorbet. mmmmmmm!

Is the Goat the old Highfield Pub?

The Quay Inn in Wareham, if you’re ever over this way, is well worth a visit of an evening. Decent food, due to that it can be quite busy, and on the Wareham rivir so a nice constitutional after eating if you’re that way inclined.

Originally posted by @Intiniki

Originally posted by @Goatboy

The Goat in Highfield Lane was suprisingly good. A ‘pub’ feel but better than pub food. I had the burger so nothing flash but well made and cooked, Mrs G had very good fish and chips with crushed peas. Yummy fries and the desserts were excellent. Vanilla pannacotta with rhubarb compote and homemade bakewell tart with sour cherry sorbet. mmmmmmm!

Is the Goat the old Highfield Pub?

yes

I’m walking from Salisbury to Christchurch in a few weeks time. Staying in Ringwood. Anyone got any decent recommendations for:

a. an ale pub

b. food?

Eight of us went there recently for a special birthday celebration. You have to book about 6 months in advance if you’re looking for a table at a weekend. Nice food but a tad over-rated I thought. He has taken over a pub a few hundred yards from the Hand and, apparently, you can just walk in - no booking necessary. How true that is, I don’t know. It claims to be more of a bistro / pub grub place.

Tried this one on Saturday for a spontaneous lunch:
http://www.tripadvisor.co.uk/Restaurant_Review-g186299-d7057068-Reviews-Melo_Restaurant-Southampton_Hampshire_England.html
Authentic Iranian food with optional shisha pipes. Generous portions. Only downside is the noisy, ugly road outside.
I’d give it a four out of fiv

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A couple of faves in Winchester:

El Sabio, a tapas place on the horrible one-way system (used to be a pub called, if memory serves, the Mash Tun). Always had very good food in there, all pretty standard tapas fare but high quality and it’s somewhere I’ve always enjoyed being. Friendly, nice atmosphere, that sort of thing.

River Cottage Canteen - only eaten here once, on my birthday in January this year, but it was bloody good.

I’ve also always had really good food at the Wykeham Arms; many people reckoned that it had gone downhill some years ago, but I’ve been there a number of times in the last few years and it’s always been excellent. It’s also where I went with Mrs Fowllyd on our first date, so there’s more than a little sentimental value there.

So possibly a Salad bar is replacing La Cantina! Are Sotonians really into their salad?

Daily Echo article

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