Roast on a Sunday

[Keef]

Yesterday Mrs Keef and I ended up in The Woodman on Kirkdale. It was done up sometime around last xmas, and we'd been meaning to give it a try.

Anyway, decided that we'd go for a roast, and were very impressed! Think the menu changes slightly every week, but yesterday there was a choice of lamb, chicken, beef, pork, or a veggie lentil roast.

I had lamb, and there was lots of it! Came with a Yorkshire pud, potatoes, cabbage, broccoli, carrots, cauliflower and very nice gravy! all this for ?9.95, which is pretty good compared to a lot of places (Palmerston I'm looking at you!).

Mrs Keef had the veggie option, and really enjoyed it!

Portions were good, was struggling by the last few fork fulls, and pudding wasn't an option (although they had a fine selection for those with healthier appetites).

Big thumbs up.

[giggirl]

I had Sunday lunch yesterday at Franklins. Delicious as always but not cheap.

[Pierre]

(Should this be in the Recommendations area?)

We went to the Nun's Head yesterday and the roast was once again excellent. Not too busy, great non-intrusive live jazz from double bass and acoustic guitar duo in the corner, good friendly atmosphere and only a minor gripe*.

At our table: several roast beef, all superb; a couple of roast pork, very good but no crackling; a couple of nut roasts, delicious with great veggie gravy. Yorkshire puddings all spot on, good veg and lovely parsnips. Possibly the most indulgent chocolate brownies ever for dessert!

: P

* a couple of parents who aren't grown-up enough to realise that it's not a creche and that leaving their wheeled children's toys in the turning-around-with-newly-bought-drinks space immediately in front of the bar is at best innattentive and inconsiderate, at worst arrogantly rude and dangerous.

[SeanMacGabhann]

They really are the best aren't they. Agree with everything else you said about TNH as well - it's probably my most regular Sunday Roast destinantion. Although the beef when it's on at the Duke probably edges it

[pk]

Pierre Wrote:

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> * a couple of parents who aren't grown-up enough

> to realise that it's not a creche and that leaving

> their wheeled children's toys in the

> turning-around-with-newly-bought-drinks space

> immediately in front of the bar is at best

> innattentive and inconsiderate, at worst

> arrogantly rude and dangerous.

what's the point of this bit?

did you take steps to deal with the danger at the time?

[Keef]

I love this forum, someone dares to say something about a parent / child in a pub, and straight away it's challenged!

He even said it was only a minor gripe, and why shouldn't he say it. There was no suggestion that the kids shouldn't be in the pub or anything like that, he just commented, quite rightly, that parents should watch what the kids are doing. Surely no one would disagree with that would they?

nut roasts, delicious with great veggie gravy

That was Mrs Keef's only minor issue with the Woodman, I had lovely home made gravy on my lamb, but her lentil roast thing had veggie bisto on it. Still very nice she said, but thought I'd mention it just in case I risk a major veggie uprising when someone goes there and doesn't get home made stock! ;-)

[pk]

Keef Wrote:

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> I love this forum, someone dares to say something

> about a parent / child in a pub, and straight away

> it's challenged!

>

> He even said it was only a minor gripe, and why

> shouldn't he say it. There was no suggestion that

> the kids shouldn't be in the pub or anything like

> that, he just commented, quite rightly, that

> parents should watch what the kids are doing.

> Surely no one would disagree with that would

> they?

>

>

no 'challenge' or suggestion that he shouldn't say it, just curious as why stating the obvious (as you say noone would say parents shouldn't keep an eye on their chidren) and rising a minor is worth the effort

[Keef]

Fair enough then :)

[Pierre]

what's the point of this bit?

To warn others about what can, to some people, be a real turn-off for a pub.

did you take steps to deal with the danger at the time?

Apart from the hasty few steps to avoid going AOT, I also nudged the toys out of the way with my foot. An irrelevant action, it turned out, because the darling delinquent decided to replace it just after I got back to my seat. Thus the warning to others.

Please don't let it detract from the recommendation of a great Sunday lunch. And, I think, only ?8.50 a head.

: P