Custard on Sunday
I had been thinking for a little while that it would be great for the managers from the 4 Cornish hotels to get together for dinner one evening in the run up to Christmas, we have a fair few meetings and so do see each other quite often but I wanted us to get together socially with our partners, some of us have met before but not all and it is great to know who we are all talking about.
I suggested this to Andrea who thought about this for all of a second or two, we ran the idea past Fraser, one of our Directors and invited him too, and then I issued the invitations. I chose the Custard Diner in Padstow as the venue and Carrina was very helpful arranging the table - it turned out they don’t open on a Sunday in December but as it was the only day we could all make she opened up for us specially.
Unfortunately Chris and Margaret couldn’t make it at the last minute, St Mawes had been without power all afternoon due to the high winds and quite a few trees were down so he had to stay and look after his guests. Andrea and Keith arrived mid afternoon and Greg and Neil early evening ready for a drink in the bar before we headed into town.
We had a lovely evening, the food and service were really good and I would strongly recommend you go there. I had wood pigeon breast to start and skate for main course, Val had monkfish, Andrea had the rump steak and all were cooked really well. The have a great wine list too and I think they come from David at Bin Two (www.bintwo.com).
I had booked our taxi home for 11.00pm from the hotel, thinking that would give us enough time to have coffee and walk back up the hill. We got to just after 11 and I said we needed to make a move and as we were all getting our coats Mike the taxi driver came in to meet us!
Do have a look at www.custarddiner.com and see for yourselves - we’ll certainly be going back.
