February 22, 2012 - Lamb Inn, Burford

Greetings All,

We headed out on a mini break to the Cotswold's, one of our favourite areas of the UK because of its quaint villages.  We booked a 2 night special for the price of one which also included a 3 course meal on the evening of your arrival.  As we were leaving Liverpool Fred received a text from his brother John that he had received both tickets for the Carling Cup Final at Wembley Stadium on Sunday.  This was good news for us as we would have had to drive back to Liverpool to get Fred's ticket if John had only received one.  So less driving for Fred and more time in London for both of

us.  We stayed at the Lamb Inn, a building that was originally weaver's cottages when it was built in 1402.  The picture above is of our room which has an original medieval window.  Our dinner was awesome.  We started with an amuse bouche of carrot and coriander soup before our appetizers of scallop and langoustine with cauliflower puree and seaweed salad.

My main course was a Cotswold fillet steak with truffled dauphinoise, shallot and fried cep mushrooms.  Fred had sea bass with fennel, tomato dressing with crab tortellinis.  We then received a pre-dessert from the chef; chocolate cake with clotted cream, which was to die for and really could have been our dessert.  My dessert was a chocolate orange battenburg cake with chocolate thyme ice-cream.  The cake was so so as it was covered in marzipan not an ingredient I like but the ice-cream made up for it.  Fred had a "Trio of Hazelnut" which consisted of creme brule, hazelnut semi-freddo and hot chocolate.  All this delicious food was accompanied with a very nice Italian red.  I didn't write down the name of it and we don't remember its exact name.  The service was excellent with the staff being very attentive but not overbearing.  Dinner entertainment came in the form of a British women who made sure everyone knew it was her 64th birthday and was very nosy asking very inappropriate questions of a young couple who actually answered her.  We took our coffee and scotch in the upper lounge which was nice and quiet as we were the only two in it until you know who arrived on the scene.  Our coffee came with petite fours which consisted of marshmallow, red current jellies and coconut covered in white chocolate.

We lucked out as the loud one didn't stay long and thankfully did not try to pull us into any conversation with them as I would probably have been rude and it would have ruined what was a amazing night.

Cheerio for now,

Sandy & Fred