It’s been a while since I went out for a decent fishfinger sandwich, infact some previous outings had rather put me off the idea for a spell. Not so this week, when the Mr and I found ourselves out for a local pint and a spot of dinner. As a holiday treat, we head to […]
Read More The Perfect Fishfinger Sandwich Hunt: The RosebudSome time ago I said some pretty good things about Three Wise Monkeys in Colchester. I fear I won’t be repeating many of them here. It isn’t an easy decision to reverse a recommendation but I can’t help feeling that TWM has overlooked quality for quantity and in expanding the menu this far have stretched […]
Read More The Perfect Fishfinger Sandwich Hunt: Three Wise MonkeysBill’s: pleasing multi site eatery to be found in various trendy locations with the rather lovely tag line of Breakfast to Bedtime. They serve good, uncomplicated food all day and are generally worth a visit, based on my experience of a couple of stops in their Covent Garden site and now also just over the river […]
Read More The Perfect Fishfinger Sandwich Hunt- Bill’s of RichmondI’ll start off straight away by awarding two friendly points here to account for the fact that I had the beginnings of a terrible bout of rhinovirus infection when this chapter of the search for the ultimate fishfinger sarnie began to unfold. To set the scene, it was cold, it was Saturday and lunch was […]
Read More The Perfect Fishfinger Sandwich Hunt- The Merchant at Bishopsgate.A week or so ago, Mr and myself celebrated two years of blissful union. Awww. Do you know when I first met that boy, he’d never had a fishfinger sandwich? Can you imagine! I put an end to that lack of experience for him quite swiftly on our second date, where we went for a […]
Read More The Perfect Fishfinger Sandwich Hunt- The Kings ArmsHello, and welcome to The Purple Dog in central Colchester. It’s a pub and it has history and beams and a beer garden and stuff. I’ve spent many a rowdy evening and one too many boozy afternoons there in my time due to it’s comfy ambience, indie friendly sway on musical matters and pleasing range […]
Read More The Perfect Fishfinger Sandwich Hunt- The Purple DogTis the season and all that but all the festive cheer in the world wasn’t going to avert this disaster. I’m not even sure I can bring myself to review it properly. The scene was The River Lodge Pub, early on a Wednesday night in December where pre-entertainment sustenance was in order. It’s a pub, I wasn’t […]
Read More The Perfect Fish Finger Sandwich Hunt- River Lodge Colchester.It’s been far too long since I had a good dose of self judgement so here it goes, the resulting review from a home made fishfinger sarnie. It could have been worse. The Venue: My sofa, on a sunday night watching the Iron Giant and trying to ignore the fact that it’s probably too late […]
Read More The Perfect Fishfinger Sandwich Hunt- My House.Gordon Ramsay, God love him, is known to interview potential employees on the strength of their scrambled eggs. You don’t count as a cook if you can’t make decent scrambled egg. I employ an equally fierce vetting system on casual eateries and the quality of their fishfinger sandwich, and today begins the documentation on such […]
Read More The Perfect Fishfinger Sandwich Hunt- TrottersSo, it is time to settle an argument unwillingly opened by my mother this past weekend on the subject of the favoured lunch of millions- The Fishfinger Sandwich. The preferable, even out and out correct, serving of this dish provoked a firey debate in the caravan. There were many suggestions put forwards from my luncheon […]
Read More A Worthy Debate for a Friday
Food. Boom. 