Tenby
I've got another week and 1 day at work and then I've got a few days off until we go to Tenby for 2 whole weeks! This is my dream holiday as I grew up there and we still have my Dad's house down there - a gorgeous little 3 bed terraced cottage about 100 yards from the South Beach!
The cottage is just outside of the town walls so quiet but handy in that we never need to drive anywhere in the evening and trust me - there are a plethora of places to visit!
What is great now is that rather than having to get a babysitter every time (thanks Mrs Lewis!) we can now take the girls out (who are 7 and 10) to enjoy the culinary experiences of Tenby. Although it seems that even though Tenby is a beautiful seaside town with a harbour to die for the good restaurants have been few and far between. Maybe I'm spoilt because we have such great eating places in Leicestershire but getting really good food in Tenby isn't easy.
When I was a very young kid my Mum & Dad used to go to the "Cellar Bar" - I don't think I ever went there but I believe it was incredibly 70's kitsch and the place to be! Then there was the Normandie which really was great food which had the legendary Taffy Wooles as the chef. If ever there was a special occasion that was the place to be. In fact - that leads me on to possibly the best restaurant Tenby has ever had (in my eaterie days certainly!) which was the "Mews Bistro". I worked there as a waitress when I was home in the holidays from Uni and had the pleasure of working with Taffy and also the (now) legendary Andrew Swales!
We used to work so hard (my best friend Kate Leonard & I were earning money in order to get ourselves out to Chequers Nightclub!) and then would be rewarded by tasting some new creation that Taffy had been experimenting with that night. What a delight and what a truly nice man.
The "Mews Bistro" would NEVER have had the success it had without my wonderful Aunty Linda as front of house. She worked there for many many years and totally lit the place up. She was amazing and was always (very naughtily!) sorting a cheeky glass of wine out for us hard working waitresses! She made work fun and we all miss her a lot since she died just over a year ago now. My lasting memory of Aunty Linda was when the then brother of Princess Di - Lord Althrop came to dine at the "Mews " (He was then a reporter for a US TV company and was filming something to do with Tenby) - she thought he might be good boyfriend material (he's practically royalty you know!!) but at 18 years old I had to tell her he was far too old for me and his chat up lines were dreadful!
Anyway...the Mews has now been sold on and I've not been there since. The trouble now is finding somewhere decent to eat in Tenby - I shall continue tomorrow once I've had my wonderful breakfast in bed which is compulsory on Mothers Day!!!
Got to go - will Ireland beat Wales?!! Obviously I want Wales to win (what would my father say if I didn't say that??) but it would be painless to see Ireland win a Grand Slam for the first time in 60 odd years!
The cottage is just outside of the town walls so quiet but handy in that we never need to drive anywhere in the evening and trust me - there are a plethora of places to visit!
What is great now is that rather than having to get a babysitter every time (thanks Mrs Lewis!) we can now take the girls out (who are 7 and 10) to enjoy the culinary experiences of Tenby. Although it seems that even though Tenby is a beautiful seaside town with a harbour to die for the good restaurants have been few and far between. Maybe I'm spoilt because we have such great eating places in Leicestershire but getting really good food in Tenby isn't easy.
When I was a very young kid my Mum & Dad used to go to the "Cellar Bar" - I don't think I ever went there but I believe it was incredibly 70's kitsch and the place to be! Then there was the Normandie which really was great food which had the legendary Taffy Wooles as the chef. If ever there was a special occasion that was the place to be. In fact - that leads me on to possibly the best restaurant Tenby has ever had (in my eaterie days certainly!) which was the "Mews Bistro". I worked there as a waitress when I was home in the holidays from Uni and had the pleasure of working with Taffy and also the (now) legendary Andrew Swales!
We used to work so hard (my best friend Kate Leonard & I were earning money in order to get ourselves out to Chequers Nightclub!) and then would be rewarded by tasting some new creation that Taffy had been experimenting with that night. What a delight and what a truly nice man.
The "Mews Bistro" would NEVER have had the success it had without my wonderful Aunty Linda as front of house. She worked there for many many years and totally lit the place up. She was amazing and was always (very naughtily!) sorting a cheeky glass of wine out for us hard working waitresses! She made work fun and we all miss her a lot since she died just over a year ago now. My lasting memory of Aunty Linda was when the then brother of Princess Di - Lord Althrop came to dine at the "Mews " (He was then a reporter for a US TV company and was filming something to do with Tenby) - she thought he might be good boyfriend material (he's practically royalty you know!!) but at 18 years old I had to tell her he was far too old for me and his chat up lines were dreadful!
Anyway...the Mews has now been sold on and I've not been there since. The trouble now is finding somewhere decent to eat in Tenby - I shall continue tomorrow once I've had my wonderful breakfast in bed which is compulsory on Mothers Day!!!
Got to go - will Ireland beat Wales?!! Obviously I want Wales to win (what would my father say if I didn't say that??) but it would be painless to see Ireland win a Grand Slam for the first time in 60 odd years!
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