Friday night marked the end of the week and a great excuse to Beast. This time a table was booked at the Black Lion Hotel, Scotland Street, Ellesmere. We were greeted with a smile from the barman as Beast ordered a large dry white wine (£3.50) and hubby Beast ordered a pint of the black stuff (That’s Guinness don’t you know) £3.00. We were offered to put the drinks on the bill and were taken to our table.
On entering the restaurant I must say I felt the décor needed some work, nothing drastic just a lick of paint and some white proper tablecloths (Beast can’t stand these plastic sheets that were used!) to make it more inviting.
Hubby Beast went for the special starter of pigeon breast on a potato rosti with sauce and Beast opted for the garlic mushrooms on a potato rosti. Both a very reasonable £3.50. We had a little joke with the waitress and asked if she had shot the pigeon herself and was shocked to learn the chef had shot it along with 93 other innocent pigeon’s going about there business trying to earn a crust in these hard economic times in order to feed the babies. This thought didn’t put off Hubby Beast who thought it was delicious. My mushrooms weren’t half bad either. I must admit I took a bit too much of a liking to the butter that was served to go on my bread roll and started eating it off a spoon. Not very ladylike but definitely classic Beast.
For mains I went for Scampi with chips £6.95 and hubby Beast went for roast leg of lamb with potatoes. What comes next may shock you…………………..we could not finish our meal!! To be fair to us it was massive portions, a tear came out of my right eye as the meal was taken away, starving children in Africa and we couldn’t finish it!!
The quality of the scampi was great with big pieces and the lamb was good too, it wasn’t absolutely amazing but when is Scampi amazing and for the price was fantastic value. We opted to have a look at the sweet menu which is very rare for us.
Beast chose homemade Baileys Cheesecake and Hubby Beast choose Crème Brule. Both £3.25 and were both very very delicious. All in all a lovely evening, even better when we discovered they only charged us for one lot of drinks when we had two!!
K McSkankill would be proud!!
Beast Rating – 4/5
On entering the restaurant I must say I felt the décor needed some work, nothing drastic just a lick of paint and some white proper tablecloths (Beast can’t stand these plastic sheets that were used!) to make it more inviting.
Hubby Beast went for the special starter of pigeon breast on a potato rosti with sauce and Beast opted for the garlic mushrooms on a potato rosti. Both a very reasonable £3.50. We had a little joke with the waitress and asked if she had shot the pigeon herself and was shocked to learn the chef had shot it along with 93 other innocent pigeon’s going about there business trying to earn a crust in these hard economic times in order to feed the babies. This thought didn’t put off Hubby Beast who thought it was delicious. My mushrooms weren’t half bad either. I must admit I took a bit too much of a liking to the butter that was served to go on my bread roll and started eating it off a spoon. Not very ladylike but definitely classic Beast.
For mains I went for Scampi with chips £6.95 and hubby Beast went for roast leg of lamb with potatoes. What comes next may shock you…………………..we could not finish our meal!! To be fair to us it was massive portions, a tear came out of my right eye as the meal was taken away, starving children in Africa and we couldn’t finish it!!
The quality of the scampi was great with big pieces and the lamb was good too, it wasn’t absolutely amazing but when is Scampi amazing and for the price was fantastic value. We opted to have a look at the sweet menu which is very rare for us.
Beast chose homemade Baileys Cheesecake and Hubby Beast choose Crème Brule. Both £3.25 and were both very very delicious. All in all a lovely evening, even better when we discovered they only charged us for one lot of drinks when we had two!!
K McSkankill would be proud!!
Beast Rating – 4/5
Im glad I found this blog! Just moved to the area & food is my favourite subject!
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