A Meal at Twigs - 1986
Yvonne Ronez Reports...
[The Journal of Channel Islands Mensa]
May 1986
To all who did not join us for dinner at "Twigs" restaurant on the 1st. May - bad luck - thirteen of us had a lovely time.
The bar is unpresumptuous two tier granite and leatherette, but comforting and welcoming. The dining room is spacious and cottage style, but what this place lacks in sophisticated "chic" it makes up for with its excellent cuisine.
Among the succulent starters at our table were rich home made tomato soup, fresh seafood cocktails, steaming moules. lasagne, deep fried mushrooms with tartare sauce, huge avocado vinaigrette and avocado with seafood. The only quibble here was that the avocados were on the firm side of ripe.
For the main course came Tournedos Aidi with filet steak the size of double decker sandwiches, beautiful roast duck of ostrich proportions, moist roast chicken that looked as though the chef had split a capon in two, tasty scampi Provencal with rice and a delicious sole that had an avocado and mushroom stuffing where the backbone had been - how's that for a massage! To accompany all this were Jacket potatoes, chips, fresh carrots, fresh cabbage and fresh cauliflower, all in large quantities. And as if this were not enough there came soured cream for the jacket spuds.
Somehow or other must of us managed a dessert. Apart from the pies and gateaux there was really fresh fruit salad with not a tinned mandarin in sight, fresh pineapple slices chuckling in a bath of kirsch and fresh sorbet, all lovingly drowned in cream.
Having finished our wine and filled ourselves to bursting, we retired to the bar, loosened our stays and indulged in coffee and liqueurs.
The meal averaged out at about £13 each, which is very reasonable. We could have done with a little more choice at the cheaper end of the wine list, but the quality was high and there was good house wine at £3 a carafe.
The conversation flowed back and forth, the wit sparkled, and the staff were patient and accommodating. We all sat on one table and there was not a murmur of dissent about our requirements for separate bills. So whether it is a gluttonous dinner a deux or the office knees up, this place is wholeheartedly recommended.
[The Journal of Channel Islands Mensa]
May 1986
To all who did not join us for dinner at "Twigs" restaurant on the 1st. May - bad luck - thirteen of us had a lovely time.
The bar is unpresumptuous two tier granite and leatherette, but comforting and welcoming. The dining room is spacious and cottage style, but what this place lacks in sophisticated "chic" it makes up for with its excellent cuisine.
Among the succulent starters at our table were rich home made tomato soup, fresh seafood cocktails, steaming moules. lasagne, deep fried mushrooms with tartare sauce, huge avocado vinaigrette and avocado with seafood. The only quibble here was that the avocados were on the firm side of ripe.
For the main course came Tournedos Aidi with filet steak the size of double decker sandwiches, beautiful roast duck of ostrich proportions, moist roast chicken that looked as though the chef had split a capon in two, tasty scampi Provencal with rice and a delicious sole that had an avocado and mushroom stuffing where the backbone had been - how's that for a massage! To accompany all this were Jacket potatoes, chips, fresh carrots, fresh cabbage and fresh cauliflower, all in large quantities. And as if this were not enough there came soured cream for the jacket spuds.
Somehow or other must of us managed a dessert. Apart from the pies and gateaux there was really fresh fruit salad with not a tinned mandarin in sight, fresh pineapple slices chuckling in a bath of kirsch and fresh sorbet, all lovingly drowned in cream.
Having finished our wine and filled ourselves to bursting, we retired to the bar, loosened our stays and indulged in coffee and liqueurs.
The meal averaged out at about £13 each, which is very reasonable. We could have done with a little more choice at the cheaper end of the wine list, but the quality was high and there was good house wine at £3 a carafe.
The conversation flowed back and forth, the wit sparkled, and the staff were patient and accommodating. We all sat on one table and there was not a murmur of dissent about our requirements for separate bills. So whether it is a gluttonous dinner a deux or the office knees up, this place is wholeheartedly recommended.
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