“Anything that walks, swims, crawls, or flies with its back to heaven is edible.”
(Cantonese saying. Source: The Chinese Kitchen by Eileen Yin-Fei Lo)

“For a gourmet wine is not a drink but a condiment, provided that your host has chosen correctly.”
Edouard De Pomaine, French author

There are two reasons for drinking wine…when you are thirsty, to cure it; the other, when you are not thirsty, to prevent it… prevention is better than cure.
Thomas Love Peacock

What some call health, if purchased by perpetual anxiety about diet, isn’t much better than tedious disease.
George Dennison Prentice

Autumn gourmet menu
Wednesday 9th, 16th & 23rd September at 7.30 p.m.
£45.00

Thai prawn & coconut broth with King prawn &
ginger dumpling
Gocker Gewurztraminer, Alsace, 2007
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Ham hock tortellini with piccalilli & rocket
Bodega Fin Del Mundo Newen Pinot Noir, Patagonia, 2007
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Roasted loin of venison with lemon verbena &
white bean purée
Domaine des Grecaux, Terra Solis, Languedoc, 2006
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Chocolate & raspberry torte, raspberry jelly &
raspberry granité
Ville d’Amont, Banyuls, France, 2005
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Coffee & truffle

Montparnasse, 103 Palmerston Rd,
Southsea PO5 3PS Tel; 023 92816754

A gourmet who thinks of calories is like a tart who looks at her watch.
James Beard

“Nothing would be more tiresome than eating and drinking if God had not made them a pleasure as well as a necessity”  (Voltaire)

I travel the world in search of the best food and wine experiences, awarding the coveted Golden Skidmark to deserving establishments or Chefs.

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