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21Jul
Address: 5 Prospect Street, Caversham, Reading RG4b 8JB
Telephone number: 01189463400
Website: http://www.myalacarte.co.uk
Date of visit: 21 July 2010
Approximate cost per head: Set meal £10.50 for one course, £13.50 for 2 and £16.95 for b3 courses . Available : Mon – Sun for lunch and Mon-Wed for dinner and also Thur-Sat before 7pm. Check out the Website if you are not clear.
Comments on wine list/beer: Reasonably prices wines. Several good ones at under £20. Beer is from Loddon Brewery
Summary:
My friend A took me there as we have not met up for a long time.
Apparently, the winner of The Apprentice’s (2008) brother runs it – a bit of useless information.
As soon as we sat down, we were offered tap water – none of this sparkling or still nonsense. I was also quite impressed by the set meal which is available most of the time and it changes daily.
We ordered goat cheese salad and duck gizzard salad followed by chicken oysters with sauté new potatoes and courgette.
Let’s start with the salad, they were pretty substantial. My gizzard salad had heart, liver and kidneys in it. All very tasty but it was all cooked well done – not pink. But then this is Reading and the tastes are much more conservative.
The main course was in fact a chicken thigh with the back (oysters) attached and not morsels of chicken oyster meat. The potatoes and courgettes were more a la plancha than sautéed. It came with a thin gravy.
The meal was accompanied by a bottle of Rioja Red crianza 2005 @ £18.50.
My overall conclusion was that it was a good meal and a little gem.
By the way, the menu also offered pork scratching for £2.50 or bread. I have never ever come across this as a menu item anywhere in the world. (Sorry, The Half Moon also offer home made scratchings on the side in a packet
E
PS The Independent revioewed Myalacarte in Dec 2010
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21Jul
Pickle Food – Boston Globe
Black Beans – Jerusalem Post
http://www.jpost.com/ArtsAndCulture/FoodAndWine/Article.aspx?id=181926
Video recipes from South China Morning Post
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21Jul
When will we stop this nonsense!
The other day, I received an email inviting me to a RSA discussion on how to change our feeding habits – i.e. how to convince people in become a vegetarian.
This whole thing of not enough food, climate change, economic plight etc boils down to a simple fact, the world’s population is growing. Why don’t we address the real issue – population control. We might also be able to cut down AIDS – as a side effect of population control.
OK! Here is a totally irrelavant article
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-10708737
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PS If you want to try insects, go to Fortnum and Mason. They sell insects (cooked) – from ants to tarantula – I kid you not – in the basement
July 2010
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21Jul
Fine wine does not attract Capital Gains Tax! Read on.
http://uk.finance.yahoo.com/news/cgt-investors-seek-out-wine-tele-83c007a592bf.html?x=0
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July 2010