Saturday Lunch
At the Lakeside Restaurant, Rounday Park, Leeds http://www.cityofleeds.co.uk/roundhay_park/source/p0008525.html
Can a self-service establishment ever be a restaurant? Yes it can and here's the proof. Lovely setting on the lakeside, busy but calm interior, furniture in which one can relax and, most importantly, very good food. I went for what I thought would be a simple poached salmon salad but I got a complex dish of rich flavours and textures. They make it up from fresh ingredients as you watch. It's difficult for anyone to make a mistake with salmon today of course so perhaps I should expect something more exotic but the salmon was dependable, tasty, thoroughly good filet with no extra flavours. The accompanying salad had very good variety from the cliched new potatoes in mayonnaise to the cliched crisp green lettuce but via some interesting grilled pepper, home-made coleslaw, tasty tomatoes and (unfortunately for me) red onion among other things. I added a fresh brown roll and real butter before finishing with a filter coffee. Altogether very respectable meal in a deservedly popular restaurant that suits all the family.
I would have reported on their wines but the sun hadn't gone down over the yardarm (can't somebody get rid of the damned yardarm?)
About £10 and good way to spend a couple of hours with long-standing friends.
Can a self-service establishment ever be a restaurant? Yes it can and here's the proof. Lovely setting on the lakeside, busy but calm interior, furniture in which one can relax and, most importantly, very good food. I went for what I thought would be a simple poached salmon salad but I got a complex dish of rich flavours and textures. They make it up from fresh ingredients as you watch. It's difficult for anyone to make a mistake with salmon today of course so perhaps I should expect something more exotic but the salmon was dependable, tasty, thoroughly good filet with no extra flavours. The accompanying salad had very good variety from the cliched new potatoes in mayonnaise to the cliched crisp green lettuce but via some interesting grilled pepper, home-made coleslaw, tasty tomatoes and (unfortunately for me) red onion among other things. I added a fresh brown roll and real butter before finishing with a filter coffee. Altogether very respectable meal in a deservedly popular restaurant that suits all the family.
I would have reported on their wines but the sun hadn't gone down over the yardarm (can't somebody get rid of the damned yardarm?)
About £10 and good way to spend a couple of hours with long-standing friends.
posted by Jean-Paul Sartre at
8:01 pm
