Rick Stein Seafood 50 years (UK)

https://rickstein.com/the-seafood-restaurant-50/rolled-back-menu/

I was very interested to try and bag a table for this event, where for a very limited period they would serve their menu from 50 years ago at the original prices.

My husband and I both had fingers poised at 10am on the dot but the website crashed. We just couldn’t get through. I tried calling the restaurant in Winchester (nearest branch to us) but a recorded message just said bookings for this event would only be taken online via the link.

Looks like some lucky people managed to get through and book tables. Oh well.

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Epilogue:

After the disappointment described above, I had signed up as a party interested to know more about the 50th anniversary celebrations. In due course, I received an email containing a voucher for £19.75 (the restaurant empire was founded in 1975) off the bill if dining before April. I’d never dined at a Rick Stein restaurant before and we are fans of his TV series, so I thought, why not?

We booked to have lunch at Rick Stein Winchester. Nice dining room on the high street. Service was just right - friendly without being annoying.

My husband went for the set menu, but I had his starter, which was a grilled mackerel fillet with tomatoes, capers and really good quality olive oil drizzled around it. He had a starter of sashimi - sea bass, salmon and scallop. We loved the starters.

For mains, he had grilled sea bass fillets with (I think) a fennel mayonnaise and steamed new potatoes. I had the Indonesian seafood curry with pilau rice and a salad of green beans and young coconut. This was Asian food interpreted by an Englishman but delicious nevertheless.

The bill:

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I enjoy his travel shows on BBC, especially the Long Weekends series. I’m glad you got to go to the restaurant, and that they offered a coupon for the trouble you had booking the special menu was kind of them. Glad that you enjoyed the place!

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Points for cooking the seafood IN the curry! My current pet peeve is something advertised as a curry, but what arrives is a piece of grilled or sauteed protein perched atop a curry sauce.

Agree with @iluvcookies – glad that you had another chance at the it, and that you enjoyed the experience.

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