Labskaus (1st photo), @hamburg style – a culinary specialty of Northern Germany comprising of salted meat, potatoes, onions, pickled gherkin and beetroot. Here it was served with fried eggs, pickled gherkins, red onion salad, beetroot and pickled herring. Tastes like a very well seasoned hash which went perfectly with the garnishes. Can definitely see this between two bits of bread or roll. Delicious!
(2nd photo) Loach 🐟 fillet in brick dough (like a pancake), with turnips and cress-mashed potatoes All enjoyed at Restaurant Deichgraf on Deichstrasse in Hamburg. 🤤🤤🤤🤤
A very popular ‘chippy’ in Nailsea and it is easy to see why. They stick to the basics and certainly do them well. This isn’t a place where you might find a halloumi fry or faux sausage but good old fashion fish and chips. Light, crispy batter on the fish and the chips were not too greasy. As usual, the plaice is freshly fried on order.
Curry sauce was tasty and my dining companion reliably informed me that their pickled egg was top notch too!
A regular cod and chips was £7.30 and a plaice and chips was £7.70 – prices were comparable to other similar chippies (correct as at the time of writing).
Very friendly staff and not too long a wait. Highly recommended!
Happy eating! 🤤🤤🤤🤤
Nailsea Fish Bar, 128 High Street, Nailsea, BS48 1AH
Wapping Wharf in Bristol is a trendy area which has been running for a few years. Using the concept of reused shipping containers like Box Parks in London, it houses a number of local retailers and eateries, both in a take away style and sit down restaurants.
The Athenian is a takeaway eatery occupying one shipping container on the first floor of one of the original sections of Wapping Wharf. It’s been there since Wapping Wharf first opened and I recently returned post Covid to continue to find the same, delicious gyros wraps.
Because of adjustments to Covid though, The Athenian has done away with the option of going up to the till to order and all orders have to made via your phone using their QR code. Although this set up makes sense during the height of Covid when visits to eateries were prohibited and not recommended, this set up was somewhat cumbersome and confusing now that in store purchases are available again. It meant there were a number of us just standing around outside the shop heads buried in their phones trying to navigate their online ordering system. The online system reflected their reduced menu but it took really long to set up an online account which, let’s face it, most people will forget passwords for once this transaction is done!
Despite the larger than normal posters on the outside of the shop where the menus are, I still managed to miss the notice saying ‘Scan this code to view menu and order‘ and embarrassingly had to ask a young lady who was waiting for their order whether they were in the queue only to be pointed to yet another larger than normal poster at the counter! Really showing my age there! Haha
Anyway, despite the slightly lengthy ordering process on my phone, once the order was made the food was ready swiftly. The Pork Souvlaki with added halloumi were worth the wait.
Well marinated, moist pork cubes were enveloped in the plant based, Athenian sauce. The crispy oregano fries work really well in the wrap without going soggy. The fries remained crispy enough for the duration of the wrap that a certain little person was able to have some too. The flavoured wrap was also sufficiently toasted on the outside giving some structure to the wrap without the sauce soaking through. Deliciousness in a roll!
They also have vegan friendly options. Highly recommended.
Happy eating! 🤤🤤🤤🤤
The Athenian, Unit 16, Cargo 2 First Floor, Gaol Ferry Steps, Bristol BS1 6WD
There are a number of local breweries in Bristol. Some of them supply chains of local pubs as well. We first came across Dawkins Ales at The Hillgrove Porter Stores in Kingsdown, Bristol when trying out Kensai Kitchen, the resident restaurant serving delicious authentic Japanese food out of the pub (more on that another day!). We really liked the Dawkins Ales Bristol Best ale that was on tap at The Hillgrove Porter Stores and decided to go and track them down in person a few months before the Covid lockdown in 2020.
Dawkin’s Ales premisesMini keg
Tucked away in an industrial estate in Easton in Bristol, Dawkins Ales has a small tasting area on site where they brew their wares. We bought a mini keg of Bristol Best along with a selection of bottles and loaded them up into the back of our car.
During Covid, the brewery developed their online ordering and delivery service which we have continued to support over the last couple of years. I remember when their system started off as a Google spreadsheet link which tells you their stock levels at any one time and then you submit your order on an online form. Now they have a slick website with an online ordering system to rival any e-stores – https://dawkinsgeorgesltd.selz.com/
With a mini keg you can get around 8 tall glasses (not quite a pint). Otherwise, each bottle is 500ml.
Another one of favourites from Dawkins Ales is their East Bristol Session Porter, a dark, fruity and malty porter.
Where has the time gone? I can’t believe it is already mid January 2022. Coronavirus has persisted another year and realistically likely to hang around for another couple more but it’s now all about how we can live with it safely and get vaccination to everyone around the world.
2021 was a very busy year for us hence the hiatus. ‘Bun’ 🍞 in the oven, navigating the unchartered territory of a little one 👶 and a new home 🏡.
Cooking since having the little one is mainly based on what’s the easiest and quickest to make and what can be eaten with one hand! With every month of his development, there has finally been times when I could steal a moment or two to cook slightly more complex dishes like I used to. Although it is a ‘half an eye on the hob, half an eye/ear on the baby monitor/next cry’. It’s going to be a lot more adventurous when he starts crawling around!
The exciting thing is though that we have just embarked on the weaning journey so I am looking forward to some food introductions for the mini gourmand-in-training!
As my time is now spread a lot thinner, it only makes sense to bring in a co-author with their own delicious input – more on that to follow…
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