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Caption: The Restaurant... ( scroll down to read )
The restaurant was one of my favourite parts of the whole stay...
I love eating out, I always have, ever since I was a child...it’s what I used to ask for for my birthday present!
...but I suppose as I’ve got older I’ve become a real stickler for good service as well as food; it’s the combination of the two which makes a meal so pleasurable...or not. I’ve had meals which have tasted amazing but the table service has been so snooty that I’d never go back...
But at Brocco, if the food had been even just mediocre, I have definitely gone back anyway just for the standard of service, but the food was completely amazing as well. The hotel says that if something can be homemade, handpicked or personalised that’s what they’ll choose.
I ordered the mackerel, then the steak for my main course, and was surprised, but completely won over, when our waiter, Joe, presented me with a wooden box of beautiful, bone handled steak knives which I was asked to choose from...I loved the theatricality of this personal touch; the meal wasn’t just about eating, it was about engaging with it too...