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The Isle of Wight Experience!
May 2007
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Visited May 2007
Five people, two boats, sun,
sea, food and drink what more can people of a certain age ask for?
We started eating
Friday 18th May moored in East Cowes within walking distance of The
Lifeboat Inn at East Cowes Marina, tel: 01983292711 (Read about this pub
on
www.weymouth-marina.co.uk/news.htm
pic above taken before the refurb. ) Really strange arrangement of not being
able to order starters - they are called Light Bites - and main courses at
the same time! Needless to say we asked to speak to the Manager and a very
nice polite guy advised that this was company policy so the orders did not
get mixed up!! We decided to go for just main courses from a typical pub
grub type of menu with good choice. We had steaks, duck Caesar salad,
seared liver and Vietnamese 5 spice chicken. All only OK. Steaks had
to be cooked a bit more so only 6/10 cost £ £ £ wheelchair access,
loos average. Own car park and easy boat mooring access!
Saturday 19th May We had to go to
the Folly and do an
update! They are still dancing on the tables and serving excellent
food especially considering how busy it always is. Friendly efficient staff
and great atmosphere. We enjoyed chicken curry, chilli, steak and kidney
pudding, lamb shank and garlic and paprika chicken. All excellent 8/10
£ £ £ £
Sunday 20th May - Lovely day again and as
the wind had dropped we cruised round to Yarmouth and started off at
Shenanigans - see Guest Book
entry on March 20th 2007 - sorry we can't agree on this occasion. Dreadful
service, only 1 woman serving and doing the food and 1 man behind the bar
serving drinks and taking orders. Neither of them seemed to know what they
were doing, surely they cant be the new owners?? As the sun was shining it
was busy and could be a gold mine with the right staff - perhaps we just got
the wrong day! We decided to just have a drink as people were leaving
having waited 40 mins for a baguette which when it appeared and the
waitress/cook was told the people had gone she threw them away and said all
food off, only sandwiches available! 8/10 for location 1/10 for
everything else!
We therefore had lunch at The
Wheatsheaf, Bridge Road, Yarmouth, Tel: 01983760456 same company as the
The Lifeboat (see Friday) but much better. Our food choices, a fisherman's
lunch which is soup of the day, salad, crusty bread and cheese £8.50.
Caesar salad as an extra, fish cakes £7.95 and filo prawns £9.75. All very
well presented, friendly staff. Good choice of puds at £4.75 each. The
homemade apple and raspberry crumble had unfortunately sold out so we had
just one summer pudding to share! Wheelchair access OK, loos above
average, good decor I would think fairly recently refurbished. Yummy
factor 7/10 £ £ £.
Excellent weekend was had by all; with summer
fast approaching I recommend you go over to Island to enjoy a laid-back
experience for yourselves!!Report
SM (don't ask how long it took to get over the hangover!)
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higher the "Yummy" factor, the better the food & service.
The higher the number of £ signs the more expensive. ( Roughly one
£ sign = £5 per head ) |
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