Saturday in Abergavenny

Posted on 2012/07/16 22:28:27 (July 2012).

[Saturday 30th June 2012]
Got the train to Abergavenny in the morning, to visit Vera and Robin for the weekend.

Spent a quiet afternoon at their house, and in the evening joined Robert and headed over to Crickhowell for dinner. We were planning to go to the Bear Hotel, but all the tables had already gone by just after 6. So instead we opted for a plan B - a little place called Number 18 Brasserie which was surprisingly good (despite my aversion to anywhere with "brasserie" in the name). The highlight was a welsh cheddar and laverbread soufflé - it was exciting just to see a chef actually using laverbread in any form whatsoever, but better still it actually went really well in this dish. Perhaps this will herald a new era of experimentation with seaweed in the UK?

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