Returning...

He says...

My review of Pier 9 is sadly still not written and I suspect it may never happen as my fading brain cells can't rightly recall much about the meal, apart from the Red Arrows and some pirates hanging around.

Let's just say that it was NICE, shall we?

Reason for delay is we've been away on  Summer vacation to Bulgaria and Romania, where we dined on  top local foods like pork cooked in lard here, a lot of buttery tripe soup (better than it sounds) and pancakes filled with chicken. And loads and loads and loads of bloody polenta. Unsurprisingly, many of the locals are FAT.

But the award for best restaurant goes to Casa Hirscher in Brasov, where I had some fantastic swordfish with the ubiquitous polenta and a creamy mushroom sauce - all piled up with a stick through it to show that it's a PROPER RESTAURANT.