Hand & Flowers | Food

Eating out is a great hobby of my husband & I. We love exploring new places, new foods & spending our time eating out but this can sometimes come with a hefty price tag.
We have been waiting to be able to visit Tom Kerridge's 'The Hand & Flowers' for a while now & so I was pleasantly surprised to find that a part of my birthday present this year was for us to take that trip.
We were booked in on a Sunday which only meant one thing. A Sunday roast. Actually, the BEST Sunday roast.
Having scoured the menu as soon as I'd been seated, I decided to have the salt baked swede & haggis tart with crispy lamb & "chantilly de chèvre"

November Favourites

Christmas is getting closer & closer, so this month's favourites is a little festive!!

(click on the headings to see the item :))

1. Eating Out

For some reason, during the winter I tend to eat out a lot more. I'm not sure if it's because of the cold that I feel the need to comfort eat but I quite like it. There's nothing better than being in a cosy countryside pub on a Sunday afternoon with a roast dinner & crackling open fire!

A Review - Sat Bains

Just over a month ago, my fiancé & I went to a restaurant in Nottingham called 'Sat Bains.' It's a gorgeous restaurant with 2 michelin stars so it was a real treat to be able to go!

The food was absolutely delicious & I got to try some foods that I had never even thought of tasting before :)

Here's some of the pictures from the night so you can see just how amazing the food is!!

I apologise for the rubbish quality, I only had my iPhone & it was really dark in the restaurant :)

We had a 10 course tasting menu which is one of two menu's that they offer. The other is a 7 course menu with pretty much the same courses just a few less obviously!

This bread was delicious, especially the smaller piece which was black treacle :) mmmm tasty!

This course was a black truffle & egg dish which we ordered as an extra course as they were offering a few extra special courses as well :) fatties, I know!

This dish was my favourite I think which was called chicken muesli & was almost frozen but then kind of melted in your mouth. Sounds weird but trust me, it was so tasty.

I also loved this dish too as it came with a pot (picture below) that had smoked hay in so when you were eating the deer it felt like you were in a forest because of the different smells. AMAZING!

Me looking rather happy with my chocolate pudding which again, was amazing! It looked really dense & I thought "oh god, I'm never going to eat all this" but once you put a piece into your mouth it just disappeared. It was the weirdest yet coolest thing! And it was a chocolate orange flavour making it even more yummy.

After our amazing meal we got chatting to the manager (who was so lovely) about all things food! She then came back a few minutes later & asked us if we would like to come into the kitchen to meet everyone & Sat Bains too! Of course we said yes!! 

It was amazing to be in a kitchen with 2 michelin stars to see what goes on "behind the scenes" & it was lovely to be able to meet Sat Bains too. He signed a menu for us which is now a reminder of the great evening we had :)

If you have the opportunity to go to Sat Bains then GO! It really was amazing, the service was great, the food was amazing & you just can't stop eating until you feel like your going to explode, which I did!

Thank you for reading

Love,

Dainty Bride xx

(Pictures on this blog post are property of DaintyBride unless stated otherwise with an asterisk *. Any images marked with an asterisk * are sourced from the internet & are believed to be public domain & have no rights affiliated with DaintyBride)