Bradleys, Huddersfield

They cleverly sent youngest son a £5 voucher to celebrate his birthday at their restraurant so I snaffled it and wheeled the entire family (what's left of it) off to Bradleys expecting a hefty bill.Greeted by a friendly maitresse d' who invited us to the bar where no doubt we would all buy a drink at inflated prices. I refused of course but the youngsters in the party all ordered something exotic at £3 a throw.But then after reading through the menu in a desultory fashion we chanced upon the blackboard. 2 course meal with half bottle of house wine for £14-95, 3 courses a bit more. I pointed everyone at this and we all ordered something from it. A good selection - pate, soup, salads for starters and steak, duck, lamb Henry for mains. Desserts also good. Wine branded as Bradleys but probably from Minervois. All in all it was a pretty good do. The food was well prepared, service was attentive; Nice warmed bread with many varieties; butter supplied.Everyone was well fed and happy. I mentally prepared myself for a bill approaching £200 and was pleasantly surprised to only be asked for £105. Quickly slipping in the voucher brought the bill down to under £100. Very good value for 6 people with 3 bottles of wine and everyone completely satisfied.Only downside is the website. When my friend was told it was Bradleys for tea she instantly looked for the menu on the web. It wasn't there. There were details of "our fantastic promotions in March" (but this was July!) and amazingly there wasn't any address or a map as to where the restaurant was. You had to look hard to find a phone number.

Ocean Foret, Les Mathes

No apology for visiting this place again. Just arrived late on sunday night, popped in as it was local and spotted a 10 euro menu. Yes that's 10 euro. For 4 courses. Of course there's a little catch - you have to have dish of the day but dish of the day was moules marinieres.

Precede that by a choice of starters from the buffet; follow on with a cheese course and a dessert and add a pichet of red wine and the entire bill was 27 euro for two people. (£18).

Tried to pop in again on the following friday but was told it was fully booked....

Piri Piri Grill, Bradford

Portuguese cuisine was the strap line and it looked quite attractive. Various dishes - beef, chicken, Lamb, Prawn etc either with the Priri piri sauce or the family's own 'secret' sauce that many have tried to imitate but none has succeeded. Various accompaniments such as spicy rice, fried, salad. Lots of new words I hadn't heard before as I haven't been to Portugal (only Bradford). So we tried it. Boss said it was halal as they were muslims of portuguese ancestry.

Mixed starter was potatoes and onion rings with a PP dip. Could have come out of packets and pleasant enough but no cigarillo. Main course of Jumbo mixed grill with secret sauce was a huge platter of mixed grill with many fries and a litre or two of the secret sauce. It was hot. Far too many chili seeds in it and not a lot of sublety. Salad was pleasantly piquant but the whole impression was that surely the portuguese can't eat piri piri or secret sauce with everything can they cos all this restaurant served was piri piri or secret sauce. Bit like finding a chippy in Lisbon and making the assumption that all Brits eat is fish 'n' chips or now and again sausage 'n' chips. I hope one day to eat real portuguese food. Maybe we'll have to actually go to er... Portugal one day.