The restaurants I've been to!

[Stokey Sue Profile]

Those pictures are a better size for me Gill and the food looks delicious

I have only stayed in the Ibis on Explore Lane in Bristol, it’s an Ibis p, it’s fine if fairly basic, they do a decent breakfast

[Gillthepainter Profile Website]

Just mobile upload vs laptop upload really, Sue.
It's far easier using the computer at home, natch.

Surprisingly, I never had any calamares. I usually go mad for it.

It's probably going to be quite some time before we eat out again, so I look forward to everyone else's meals out.
I'm now back in the kitchen.

[jeral Profile]

Gillthepainter, lovely good grub that's just what you want to relax with.

The curiosity is killing me. Did you manage to find a perfect annual ice cream? I think we should be told

[Gillthepainter Profile Website]

ah-Ha!
I failed miserably. Whilst I love the look of giant toblerones in duty frees - is it my imagination or are they getting bigger? And I muse upon the question, "who on earth buys those jumbo toblerones?"

I wandered off to the local mini market, when Tony naffed off into the distance for his final sea swim.

And opted for the toblerone triangle shaped ice cream in the freezer.
It was nasty.
The type of ice cream that doesn't melt in the sun.

[dennispc Profile]

Freddy Bird, ten years head chef at the Lido has opened his own place in Bristol with his wife Nessie - Little French. No website yet but Bristol Post said some nice things about it.

Apparently, he's often on Saturday Kitchen.

[Gillthepainter Profile Website]

I've heard very good things about the resto at the Lido.
My blogger friend Zebbakes goes there.

I've no doubt his new place is wonderful too.

[dennispc Profile]

Went back to the Field Kitchen for lunch - tomorrow and for the rest of the school holidays the A303 will be a bit busy, generally we keep away.

Pizzas - 12inch, thin, sourdough, leaven started last October.

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Nearest camera ‘Lyme Bay’, smoked mackerel, white sauce, red onion and watercress - pea shoots were fine. £11.50

OH had ‘Hawaiian (ish)’, the ish meant no pineapple. £11.50

Fortunately, they provide doggy boxes - next time we’ll have one between us plus a salad.

OH had two scoops of ice cream. Couldn't get a shot of the whole counter but there was another six containers to the right.

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On the way home stopped at one of our favourite coffee places (garden centre)for tea, had my dessert - large slice of Chocolate and Orange, Jaffa cake as a sponge. A good day.

[Amyw Profile]

Sounds like a lovely day, those pizzas look amazing

[Alexandria Profile]

Gil The Painter,

The best ecological natural 100% gelato, in Girona is:

Jordi Roca
Girona Capital

His other localtion is in Madrid Capital at the
Serrano Street El Corte Inglés.

Three Michelin Starred Jordi Roca and his spouse make all the icecream and
they also carry lactose free and other specialties.

[Gillthepainter Profile Website]

You've mentioned the Girona ice cream before, I do remember Member 461.
Thank you.
We haven't ventured over to Girona for years now.

Dennis, glad you had a super pizza and ice cream meal out.
They look like the excellent sourdough pizzas we had at Fat Toni's at Christmas Eve. It renewed my interest in the pizza, after a food poisoning bout.

Honestly, how can they give you food poisoning from a pizza! Thanks a lot, Pizza Express!

[dennispc Profile]

Honestly, how can they give you food poisoning from a pizza! Thanks a lot, Pizza Express!

Not changing gloves between different elements? Not loading piles of cheap ingredients on, so some parts don't cook properly. Not washing hands etc.

[Alexandria Profile]

Gil the Painter,

Food Poisoning via Pizza ..

Some possibilities:

1) insect spray false tomatoes

2) not properly washing the insecticide off the tomatoes

3) not having spotless clean hands

4) plastic gloves are toxic ! Was told by an artistisanal buratta producer and mozzarella artisanial producers about the fact, that when they prepare Buratta or Mozzarella d´Buffala, they do not use gloves, because of the toxins in the rubbery or plastic gloves.

5) Perhaps you ate something prior which worked as a catalyst to produce the symptoms that you had while eating the pizza !!

Sorry to hear and hope you are feeling better.

Another point is that perhaps you are gluten in-tolerant from the flour used ..

[Renee Profile]

What a horrible experience Gill. However, salmonella food poisoning, for example,can take between 12 and 36 hours to develop, so it isn't always the food that you've most recently eaten that's responsible.

Easy to wash hands, yes, but what's up finger nails and I've often seen food handlers scratching their heads, ears or their face.

[Stokey Sue Profile]

It’s very unlikely that food poisoning from a pizza would be toxic rather than infectious, though of course it’s always possible

The high heat of a pizza oven would tend to kill off surface bacteria

I don’t think plastic gloves are very toxic, I know plenty of people who wear them all day without incident, they wouldn’t be used in medicine if they were a problem

Artisan soft cheeses such as mozzarella and burrata are often implicated in small food poisoning outbreaks, and locally mozzarella is the presumed source of my recent food poisoning, but it’s likely that a pizzeria would use the factory stuff, which is less risky

I had a couple of colleagues who got awful food poisoning from takeaway pizza

Most likely sources of infection
Cut up meat and cheese left to sit and breed after handling or stored too long, especially if handled without proper hygiene

Salad or trimmings put on the pizza after it is removed from the oven the oven, including flavoured oils

Handling the cooked pizza

Though I thought I’d got food poisoning from a Byron burger once, and when we worked it back it seemed more likely I’d caught a virus from a customer who’d been unwell in the toilets

[Joanbunting Profile]

We went to a new pizzaria near us last night.

The family and M really enjoyed it. The new owners imported their Pizza oven from naples and they limit themselves to 6 toppings. They were obscenely large but GS and DD managed to finish their. M had the pasta dish of the day which he said was good. Unfortunately there was nothing I could eat except a few indifferent antipasti nibbles. Even the tiramisu of the day (get them) was chocolate and coconut

The atmosphere was, to say the least. lively and it was full of the beauutiful people from their residences secondaire. One such family was delived by their chaufeur

If I go again I shall take my own food and drink their cocktails!

[Sakkarin Profile]

Sounds like the family have got it in for you!!!

Chocolate and coconut is not a combination that sounds pleasant to me, much as I adore coconut in other circumstances.

[Joanbunting Profile]

No Sakkers it was me that suggested the place but it does not yet have a website to enable one to see the menu!

[Stokey Sue Profile]

I can’t stand coconut in desserts but surely coconut + chocolate is just the classic Bounty bar? Chocolate dipped coconut macaroons too, so it doesn’t stroke me as an odd combination

[Sakkarin Profile]

You have a point. Coconut macaroons are disgusting but Bounty bars are good; Bounty choc ices even better! However the memory that crossed my mind when I read that combination was my mum's dreadful coconut pyramids, dipped in chocolate. Eurgh.

(Googled pic not mine...)

[Gillthepainter Profile Website]

What the heck is the coconut slice that you used to get at sweetie markets?
It's pink and white - with a chocolate coating.