Very dim sum
Are restaurants there to please customers or simply to make life comfortable for themselves? Some seem to think they're doing us a favour by letting us eat there.
I drove with my family to one of my (until now) favourite Chinese yesterday afternoon on a whim because we decided we wanted to eat dim sum. We arrived at 5.10.
"Sorry, dim sum stops at 5pm," we were told.
So ten minutes after that time, they couldn't rustle us up a few pork dumplings, spring rolls and the like in exchange for our money?
If we'd arrived an hour later and the place was packed with punters eating full meals, I'd have understood their reasoning. But we weren't and it wasn't.
We drove into town to a restaurant that was only too happy to accept the £40-plus we paid for dim sum and drinks.
Guess which restaurant I'll be returning to sooner...
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Paul Fulford - Features Editor Paul Fulford gives his verdict on the region’s restaurants.
Come on then Mr TV celebrity...name names.
It would be wrong to name names wihout giving the restaurant the right to reply - bit clunky for a medium as informal as this,
PS:
Glad you saw my fleeting appearance on Great British Menu - it puts you among a very small group of people. I'm not holding my breath until the movie offers arrive...
Fleeting it was - more than a nod to Phil Neal alongside Graham Taylor.
I'd stick to the written word if I were you.
Happily, my ugly mug will be no where to be seen when Glynn Purnell competes against Sat Bains in the Midlands final of Great British Menu, which Mon-Fri next week.
Come on, Glynn. Win for all us Bluenoses!!!