Situated in the Parkgate Hotel in Cardiff The Sorting room offers Michelin starred fine dining.
In the grand rooms of the old Post Office, once filled with hand-written letters and brown-paper packages, now there are glittering chandeliers and plush leather sofas, where elegant lunches are enjoyed and sumptuous dinners savoured in the most glamorous surroundings.
Whether you linger leisurely over lunch, dress up for dinner or spoil yourself with our sumptuous Sunday lunch, the delicious dishes of our British-inspired brasserie menu and heady blend of bygone glamour in the most elegant surroundings, make any meal here an experience to savour.*
*from the Parkgate Hotel website
Tags: Cardiff, Fine Dining, old Post Office, The Parkgate Hotel, The sorting Room, Vacation
While it is February one can taste the full joys of anticipation. Spring stands at the gate with her finger on the latch.
Patience Strong
Tags: Anticipation, Cherie's Place Thought, New Beginings, Nr Apley Woods, Pathway, Shropshire
A few days prior to a procedure to fix Mr C’s unexpected health condition that caused us to cancel our Madeira trip in October we had a last minute day trip to London.
We enjoyed a special meal deal in The Ivy looking towards Tower Bridge, our destination for the day. Tower Bridge with its glass walkways and views of London from above is well worth a visit. After our tour of the bridge we had hoped to visit the nearby Tower of London but in winter months it closes earlier, meaning we had run out of time. Instead we visited Foyles book shop where neither of us were tempted to buy anything.
A couple of days later I took Mr C on the 50 minute drive to the hospital (in appalling weather) where his procedure to remove some anomalous non-malignant cells was due to take place. General anaesthetic was administered but when the consultant prepared to do the procedure he found that the anomalous cells had vanished…
He was allowed home rather than having to stay in hospital overnight. Another 50 minute there and back again journey for me. We stopped on the way home to pick up something for our evening meal. A cup of tea was in order and we were tempted by naughty cakes.
Tags: Blue Diamond, Hospital, London, Me by another, Mere Park, Newport, Portrait, The Ivy, There's Always One, Tower Bridge
TWENTY bridges from Tower to Kew -
Wanted to know what the River knew,
Twenty Bridges or twenty-two,
For they were young, and the Thames was old
And this is the tale that River told
― Rudyard Kipling
Tags: Cherie's Place Thought, Day Trip, London, River Thames, Rudyard Kipling, Tower Bridge
But pleasures are like poppies spread, You seize the flower, it’s bloom is shed; Or, like the snow-fall in the river, A moment white, then melts forever.
Robert Burns
Tags: Bomber Command, Bomber Command Centre, Cherie's Place Thought, Lincoln, Poppy, Robert Burns
