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Bermuda Eating Trip Recap - long
There's still Cambridge Beaches, and I think Tucker's Point require jackets at dinner.
Bermuda Eating Trip Recap - long
The Newport Room has been reinvented as a gastropub and will open again in late May. The menu is online at the Fairmont Southampton website. Yet another restaurant fallen to 'casual dining'.
I'll be able to comment on The Reefs next month...
Love the visual of it all....Pinterest
I discovered Pinterest in December 2010, a graphic designer it was a great place to pin images I loved to look at – and a great place to pin recipes instead of searching through bookmarks - I find it really helpful for planning menus.
Bermuda Eating Trip Recap - long
The Reefs just hired a new chef - look forward to seeing what he produces.
Bermuda Eating Trip Recap - long
Hmmm, maybe Gunpowder Tavern in St George's, not exactly a cave, but cave-like - old fort - don't know if it was still open 20 years ago though. Frog and Onion at the Royal Naval Dockyard feels cave-like too and is still around.
My son's wedding was at The Reefs last October - they did a wonderful dinner.
Bermuda Eating Trip Recap - long
I love The Reefs.
For breakfast/lunch go to Tribe Road Kitchen in Hamilton, here is the link to their Facebook page which they update with menus every day. I would move in if I could:
http://www.facebook.com/pages/Tribe-Road-Kitchen/122021201210709
Also for lunch - Harry's, great to sit outside have mojitos and lunch:
http://www.miles.bm/Harrys/harrys.html
The Black Horse in St David's is old school Bermuda - shark hash, fish sandwiches and you can sit outside by the water.
Dinner - Rustico in Flatts, there's lots of Italians restaurants in Bermuda for some reason, but this is my favourite - they have great pasta, daily specials like beef cheeks on polenta, thin crust pizza. I like Beau Rivage - if you can sit outside - so beautiful. My son goes out for dinner more than I do so I will check with him - I know he likes Bolero.
Hope this helps :-)
Trip to Bermuda, staying at Rosewood Tucker's Point
The menus are online and the chef uses locally-sourced meat/fish and produce when available.
Tom Moore's Tavern is quite near TP, as is Rustico in Flatts. Wahoo in St George's will usually have local fish.
My first dinner hosting the in-laws. Please help, I want to impress!!
My son makes this wonderful salad of chopped raddicchio and endive, toasted pecans, and cubed pear dressed with sherry vinegar and walnut oil with some pomegrantate seeds on top - it's really good before or with a heavier main course.
For dessert how about a pavlova - Jamie Oliver's meringue recipe is so easy, it can be baked early and put to one side to be topped later with lemon curd mixed with whipped cream with fresh berries on top, or the meringue broken up in a bowl with whipped cream and strawberries for Eton Mess - it's light, but festive.
BERMUDA: Restaurant ideas for rehearsal dinner in June
Donna Alvarez, phone is 441-293-8333. I will give her a call tomorrow to let her her know you may be contacting her.
BERMUDA: Restaurant ideas for rehearsal dinner in June
Grotto Bay is an excellent option! Let me know if you want to follow up - I have a contact there that can help you.
As much as I love Rustico in Flatts I don't think it would the ambiance @markipp is looking for. The Aquarium in Flatts does events though...
BERMUDA: Restaurant ideas for rehearsal dinner in June
My son's rehearsal dinner was at Beau Rivage last year and we were told it would have to be inside due to happy hour, but I think that's only on Fridays.
BERMUDA: Restaurant ideas for rehearsal dinner in June
I agree with bdachow on investigating a barbecue or casual dinner at Tucker's Point beach rather than shuttling them all the way to Mickey's. I think you have to be a member of Mid Ocean to use their facility unless they have an arrangement with TP.
The Black Horse is on the water, but does not have a beach - it has an outdoor grassy area on the waterfront, if it were to rain 50-60 people inside would be quite crowded.
Beau Rivage, again, has no beach and if they have happy hour you would have to be inside and not on the terrace.
Failed lemon tart - my fault? suggestions for next time?
I would try it again using Meyer lemons which are thin skinned and not as sour as 'regular' lemons.
Need help with British candy making ingredients
@freia - I think you are confusing demerara sugar with dark muscovado sugar - unless they call dark brown sugar in Canada demerara.
Need help with British candy making ingredients
@pdxgastro - I'm not sure (demerara sits right on the supermarket shelf here so never have to substitute) - if you Google demerara sugar you'll find images and info that will help you decide
Need help with British candy making ingredients
I'm Bermudian but we use English cookbooks as well as US here - I can answer some of the questions
Granulated sugar = regular white sugar
Icing sugar = confectioners sugar
glucose syrup = http://www.silverspoon.co.uk/home/products/cakecraft/glucose not sure if you can get it in the US. I have found glucose syrup in the drugstore here.
Golden syrup has a delicious caramel flavour that corn syrup does not have, and is much thicker than honey
Demerara sugar = natural brown sugar, larger crystals not the kind you pack down when measuring
Caster sugar = fine granualted sugar
Drinking chocolate is a powder that has sugar and I think milk powder (been a while since I had it) mixed in with it so you just need to add boiling water,
I am not sure about dessert chocolate.
And I'm not sure what to tell you about single and double cream, I've not found US products that exactly match them - half and half can be used for single cream, the closest you will get to double cream(48% butterfat) is whipping cream,
Don't know what tartaric acid is.
And yeas vanilla essence is vanilla extract.
Roasted potato advice needed
Traditional roast potatoes won't be appetising after sitting around for a few hours - I think roasted small red potatoes or fingerlings - whole and unpeeled - will work better at room temperature. I use a little olive oil, fresh thyme, and a sprinkling of Maldon salt after roasting.
KILLER desserts for New Year's Eve
Then there are those of use who decide on dessert and work backwards.
KILLER desserts for New Year's Eve
Trifle...and pavlova - here's a link to a festive one (scroll down to it )
http://whatkatieate.blogspot.com/
Squishing potato chips in your sandwich...anyone else do this?
I am so happy I am not alone! That happy crunch improves just about any sandwich.
My stuffing is too loose
English stuffing recipes use breadcrumbs rather than the dried cubes we're used to on this side of the ocean, but in that bbc recipe it looks like the crumbs are simply sauteed with the other ingredients before serving - looks odd to me.
Yorkshire pudding recipes anyone?
I use Nigella Lawson's recipe, which I think she originally got from Jane Grigson - Google if you are interested - it unfailingly produces an amazing, billowing pudding - and it's easy!
Bermuda for New Years
Tribe Road Kitchen on King and Reid Street east is kind of like a paladares, it's an old Bermuda house, feels homey and everything is homemade and delicious. Check it out on Facebook. Have a wonderful trip, good food and I hope the sun shines for you.
@bdachow - you confirmed what I thought about Cafe Cairo - the bridesmaids and friends went there after my son's wedding in October, the BF of one bridesmaid woke up the next morning with a policeman's business card in his shirt pocket with absolutely no recollection of how it got there.
Bermuda for New Years
My pleasure!
I'm not sure if St George's is doing its NYE thing this year, people are focused on Christmas right now and I haven't seen anything in the paper re NYE. Check The Royal Gazette when you get here.
I'm pretty sure the Black Horse closes between Christmas and New Years, but check when you get here.
There is a Swizzle near you, but I prefer the original in Bailey's Bay which across from Bailey's ice cream.
I'm going to the spa at The Reefs on Saturday and will get back to on whether Coconuts is open then.
I've never eaten at Cafe Cairo or Opus so can't comment.
Bermuda for New Years
If you are arriving on the 28th you should not have a problem with restaurants closing early during your time here. The Fairmont concierge can always check on a specific restaurant for you, and the following websites are helpful too -
http://www.nothingtodoinbermuda.com/
http://www.bermuda.com/
Beau Rivage would be good for NYE - it's across the harbour from Hamilton so if there are fireworks you will see them.
Currently the sea surface temp is 70, it may be a few degrees cooler while you are here - depends what you're comfortable with!
Salad: A Thread of Appreciation
I was just thinking today that a salad my son makes would be really good for when I have friends over on Boxing Day - chopped raddichio, endive, toasted hazlenuts, scattering of pomegranate seeds.
What was in your Christmas stocking growing-up?
I had an orange in the bottom of mine, but it was one of those English chocolate ones, wrapped in orange foil, and when sharply rapped on a hard surface it magically separated into 'orange' segments. Also chocolate coins, and nuts - those Brazil nuts were a nightmare to crack...
Bermuda restaurant suggestions for a wedding dinner
My son's wedding rehearsal dinner was at Beau Rivage in October, Jean Claude did a spectacular job with the menu and wine and it's such a beautiful location.
