Tonight we went with our friends' the Clayton /Gorman's and the Beales' to a lovely restaurant called Lake Isle which is all the way in Uppingham about a half hour away. This little gem of a place features a special British Wine Dinner where you get a glass of wine with each course so we of course lined up a taxi to take us so that no one had to worry about driving. It's a pretty pricey to pay a taxi for a round trip like that...90 GBP!!! But it's a much heftier price to pay if someone got in an accident. 
I didn't have a very good camera with me so I didn't get a good picture of my aparagus soup starter with this foamy looking stuff on top. It tasted really good. Kevin got this toast with some kind of pate with it. I was sure what pate was so I didn't get it but he said it tasted wonderful.
The other starter was this mushroom dish with quail eggs which when I saw it on the menu I envisioned whole quail eggs on my plate. Well, it came out and it looked really, really good...should have gotten that. I have been pretty adventurous with my menu selections since I've moved over here but tonight I don't know what got in my way.
For our main course there were three different options, but we all selected the Beef Wellington which is very, very English. It was really good and now I have another dish to find a recipe for. It's essentially a beef tenderloin with a liver pate and pastry around it. Kevin and I usually don't get beef dishes over here since they aren't quite like at home but this was amazing!!!!
Dessert was the best because you got a tasting of four different things. We got this amazing strawberry trifle in a wine glass, then a slice of chilled egg custard, a treacle tart, and a dollup of Eton Mess.
We had a wonderful time together. We missed the Wong's but Min was hanging out in London with her dad watching a show in the West End.
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