Thanks to my young person's railcard, I got a two month free trial with the gourmet society, which gives you restaurant discounts in every city.
After some (22 hours) research, I decided to give a try to the brasserie at Bewley's hotel: the online menu looked incredible, and would be well worth the 30 minutes walk from our hotel.
I had already made up my mind on the "duck medallions served on a cassoulet of duck sausage, spinach & lentils with orange potato cakes" followed by the "almond Galette served with summer fruits, crème fraiche & mini strawberry daiquiri". Wow, the title itself is mouthwatering.
So imagine my disappointment when after walking half an hour (can't stress that enough) I arrived to a complete different menu. A two course prix fixed that was nowhere near as good as the online one. I asked about the a la carte, and I was told it was taken off a month ago because not enough customers were ordering from it.
Fair enough , but how about taking the menu off the website? We left.
Thank god I had a plan b: in a symphony of rumbling stomach we jumped on a taxi to Thai edge.
This Thai restaurant near Millenium square was cute as hell, and the service was out of this world.
The lovely waitresses were wearing elegant purple traditional dresses and were very attentive and open to questions.
The menu can please everyone with the classics like green thai curry, or for those more adventurous, you could go with one of their specialities such as the steamed fish wrapped in banana leaves in coconut milk and sweet basil.
We went with the Mussaman gai which is a chicken mussaman curry cooked in coconut milk with potato,
peanuts and onion and the mussaman gae which is lamb in mussaman curry cooked in coconut milk with potato, peanuts and onion.
But ... that's twice the same curry will you say. Well, that's what happens when you let the man order and he gets mixed up. Bless.
Did not care in the end as the curry was divine. The meat was really tender, to the point where Matt went:
"My god this lamb is so tender, hang on, no that was a potatoe..."
The presentation was a first for us: curries were served in two lovely candle heated pots that kept our food hot throughout the meal. Clever.
Glad we went there in the end, lovely dinner and cheap too, as my gourmet society card gave us two for one on mains bringing the total to 20 pounds, including drinks. Khawp khun kha!
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