@Harters - there’s a mention of Rules in this review. This restaurant chain is older!
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Thanks. Yeah, I’d spotted that in yesterday’s Guardian.
Maybe we should start an “old restaurant” thread. I remember being in one place in Virginia which, assuming my memory hasnt failed, had been in the food business since before American independence.
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In Alexandria?
Done!
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No. but found it though.
Mitchie Tavern, outside Charlottesville. Dates to 1784. We had lunch there after visiting Monticello (President Jefferson’s home). Trip was years back - before I started writing reviews in 2008 - so I’ve no real recollection of what we ate. I do recall it was a buffet of traditional Southern dishes (as it still is).
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Oh sure! We lived in Charlottesville for a couple years in the early aughts when LLD was teaching at UVa. We never ate there but it was definitely a presence. Monticello is beautiful.
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After reading your first post about an older restaurant in Virginia I went to Wikipedia and found another old one founded in 1728 in Middleburg Virginia. And the odd thing is that I had lunch there and had no idea it was in the top 10 oldest restaurants in the USA.
The Red Fox Inn is kind of a nice horse country restaurant with good not great menu. Middleburg was a nice small town that back in the day you could almost believe was a slice of England. It is super busy and packed with tourists now.
I used to go through there fairly frequently in my ‘go fast car’ because there were a lot of roads with great curves, beautiful vistas and no bicyclists just beyond Middleburg. Most are gettin filled with commuter communities now.
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Thanks @ZivBnd - we’ve now got a new thread discussing old restaurants - I’ll try and link your post there.
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@Harters - Grace was in your part of the country! Sounds like a place you might have already been to or would be interested in trying?
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Yeah, read the review in yesterday’s paper. Winsome has been on our “to try” list for a while. But with a big question mark against it - I do have a sharp intake of breath at the idea of paying £45 for rabbit pie (plus sides). The phrase “taking the piss” comes to mind.
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Yikes! £45! And what if it was just a rabbit casserole with a pastry lid? You’d be so disappointed!
Not least as our local dining pub often has a game pie on the menu. Proper pie - pastry top, bottom and side - with sides for about nineteen quid.
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Paging @Harters !
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I didn’t realize they expanded, globally. Started in LA’s Grand Central Market. LA and SoCal doesn’t get much coverage here. My sister took me there and my reaction to the name was, really…okay, whatever…funny, effective marketing because you don’t forget the name. Food was good.
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Thai food doesnt particularly appeal to either of us, so we’ll probably be passing on this one.
The pub that it’s in has been there since the early part of the 19th century. So would have been well known to an early generation of my family who lived in Ancoats and worked in the area’s then major industry - iron foundries. They were certainly there at the time of the 1841 census.
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By the by, I’ve just looked at Winsome again. Seems they must have realised their original pricing simply wasnt going to fly. They’ve shortened the menu, simplified it and now run at three courses for thirty nine quid. I’m coming out to play.
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