Carl lamb from Almary Green entertained us over February’s Light Lunch held at The Last Wine Bar. He gave us a fascinating insight into taking part in the 1980’s Falkland’s War. Carl was a fighter controller in the RAF and was directly involved in carrying out some of the difficult decisions our Nation’s Leaders made to protect the islands. A good crowd attended with plenty of new faces and lunch was fab as well.

Wed 24/2 saw the return of Howard Lee and his experimental Asian Influenced cooking. Firstly we tried combining unusual flavour combinations in the form of small but punchy canapés, followed by his own cured salmon and homemade soda bread. The main course was slow cooked pork (6 hours at a low temperature) with crackling and a beautifully seasoned mushroom. Our palette cleanser was a shot glass filled with both tomato and cucumber sorbets and  the meal was finished off with rose flavoured rice pudding topped with a greenish tapioca with a rose panacotta on the side.

All very Heston Blumenthal, in fact Howard’s chef even looked like him – spooky