About Old People Eating

We love food. We enjoy the experience of eating it, wherever we may find it. Perhaps not in bins, but you understand what we mean. At home, or out and about with friends, in cafes, pubs, restaurants and almost anywhere else.

We have had great food in a few restaurants with red stars, and great food out of paper bags from street food stalls. We have been fortunate to have travelled travel quite widely and have enjoyed trying previously unknown foods in new places.

Food festivals are always of interest, but we always especially enjoy those unexpected meals and snacks encountered through serendipity.

We often reminisce about foods we have eaten and remember holidays, trips and other events by the food we ate at the time: the breakfast here, the supper then, the cheese pies there. So, during one of these trips down memory lane we started to feel we should have written a few notes about the food we have enjoyed at the time we enjoyed it, just in case when we are even older our mental faculties no longer allow the tastes, smells, sights and sounds to be recalled. We also quite like words.

So, here we are, two Old People Eating. Please feel free to comment on anything we write and make suggestions if you think there are things you have eaten that you think we should try.

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The Artichoke, Amersham

This record of Old People Eating began on 17th February 2022 with atrip to the splendid Artichoke in Amersham. That was a celebration of our 15th wedding anniversary and today was a birthday treat. I am very happy to report that this restaurant remains an excellent choice. We once again had the tasting menu (the full one, of course, rather than the lunch version) and it was thoroughly and deliciously enjoyable from start to finish. Perhaps the hand-dived scallop had been cooked for a few seconds too long, but that was easily forgiven and forgotten as the meal continued. I posted the menu in 2022, so feel I should do the same here: For special occasions and a real treat, we will return.

The Craster Arms, Beadnell

We spent the morning walking along a truly beautiful Northumberland coast, to the east of Bamburgh. Wide stretches of clean, soft sand and mudflats with a wide variety of shore and sea birds. This sharpened the appetite and we found The Craster Arms in the seaside village of Beadnell. Two pork belly with mashed potatoes, crackling and seasonal vegetables, followed by one bread and butter pudding with custard and one Cointreau Irish coffee. And a bowl of water for the dog we had borrowed so that we could talk to strangers.

Pedyr's Bake House, Polperro

After a pleasant coastal walk from Talland to Polperro on the south coast of Cornwall and a wander around that charming harbour town, we called in to Pedyr's Bake House and bought a traditional pasty for each of us. Pasties had been taken three times already on this trip, but this one felt deserved as the path along to coast had some steep sections. It was only a mile and a half from point to point but felt longer. Lovely views, a memorably close encounter with a chiffchaff and kind weather in both directions. The pasties were consumed on a bench overlooking the harbour where the resident gulls were kept under close observation by us and we by them. Only one raid was attempted and this was partially successful. The pasties were excellent. Fresh, not too hot and filled with softly cooked beef, potato and swede. Crusty short pastry and enough moisture to avoid any hint of heaviness. A trip to the roof garden of the Three Pilchards rounded off the lunch before a final tour of the vi...

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