The Pulpit Cheese Club. Doing what it says on the tin, I’ve today spent a convivial couple of hours in the The Pulpit on Devizes Road, eating cheese and drinking wine. The premise of the cheese club is a simple one – as the wee sign below explains.
Fika Coffee Shop Swindon. Alerted by Facebook (it has its uses – as awful as it often is) to the existence of this place, I today hurtled down town to try it out. Well, I did need to go to town anyway so I had a good excuse.
The Vault Bar Lounge – at LAST I’ve managed to pay a visit. It’s been on my ‘must try’ list for quite some time now. Indeed there’s been a couple of almost-but-not-quite visits when ill-health or other circs intruded. But last night, with a group of gals celebrating the birthday of one of our number, I made it. Yay!
La Carbonara Italian Restaurant on Westcott Place – on the way into town from the west side of the town – is cooking with gas again. As it were.
The Caipirinha Brazilian Cocktail brings me back to making an entry in the Swindon in 50 Drinks series. It’s been a while. I enjoyed one of these last night at Recanto on Commerical Road in Swindon.
Today I tried out the Tikka Tikka Indian Restaurant at the top of Vic Hill, in Old Town. And overall impressions are rather positive I must say. So what’s their offering, I hear you cry? Well as their website proclaims, it’s Indian tapas, grill and cocktails. ‘Our chefs provide authentic Indian tapas and main dishes with a modern twist.
Grano Lab Italian Restaurant you’ll find in what was Gaetano’s on Victoria Road in Old Town.
So the last week I paid a visit to the The Choptank Old Town, Swindon. I’d heard that the place had a new chef and a new menu – now doing small plates – that I was keen to try. So last week an opportunity presented itself. Hurrah.
Vodka – one of the few spirits that I’ll drink on the odd occasion. Though, in general, I’m more about the wine, the beer and the Champagne. In my youth I’d often have a vodka and lime when I’d had enough beer. Blimey – I couldn’t do it now. I can’t bear gin, so if I’m in a cocktail mood then it has to be vodka or rum based.
Well – I’ve already done coffee in my Swindon in 50 Drinks series but my chum Chris Eley assures me that Pour Bois is worthy of mention. So, with thanks to said chum, here’s a post about this as-yet-unvisited-by-me coffee place. But I’ve decided to keep it top level eating/drinking/coffee.
Yep. Before anyone says it, this post about the Old Town Laundry bar is a bit of a cheat in this Swindon in 50 drinks series. Obvs this more about the venue than one particular drink – as the posts in this series largely are. But – it had to go somewhere so here it is.
While I’m keen not to make this Swindon in 50 Drinks blog series too beer heavy, I couldn’t not cover this Volya Ukrainian inspired beer.
