Showing posts with label Torres brandy. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Torres brandy. Show all posts

Thursday, 28 August 2014

Lunch Club at Bellota's

Our monthly lunch club meetings are calendar days. Time to meet up with old friends, enjoy good food and wine, share anecdotes, discuss books, music, politics, travel and any other subject that takes our fancy. My brother Dave is a legend in musical knowledge, runs a great blog on Live Journal (DavesMusicTank) and is placed currently at No.12 in their list of blogs. No mean feat!

So, here we are again at Bellota's Bar y Tapas in Brighton, our favourite eatery, on a day when the weather was clement and added to the wonderful, convivial atmosphere. Phil had travelled over from Sittingbourne in Kent to join me, my brother and my good friends Graeme, Georgina and Lesley.


Someone referred to this group as 'a bunch of old gits'! That may be so. But we know how to enjoy ourselves. No malingerers here! Mind you, Phil as the youngest member of our esteemed club, would prefer not to be entitled with such a sobriquet!

The food here, as ever, was very tasty. The service was a bit slow today, because Mark - the manager - was having to cope single-handed, owing to being short of staff. He did well and we were in no hurry anyway. Time to dwell over good food, good company and great conversation. And speaking of 'old gits' - here are two at the bar enjoying a Torrés 10 brandy....


Salad days.....

Friday, 20 June 2014

E2EG

A little late posting this but I have been occupied with preparations for the new garden shed... Yawn. Yeah, OK...

Anyway, on Wednesday I travelled into Brighton wearing an E2EG as I thought about the lunch I was about to enjoy with brother Dave and good friends Graeme and Leslie. The E2EG was somewhat stimulated by the 83-page glossary of internet terminology, which has been leaked online from a certain US government agency. Who? No, I'm NSAW, that's FMTKFYTFO ( can you believe folk actually use these acronyms?)

I met up with the others at http://www.bellotabrighton.co.uk/ our favourite Bar y Tapas place, which has a wonderful, bright decor and friendly atmosphere...


So, there we were, a BOGSAT.... OK, that's Bunch of guys sitting around talking. Sheesh! Mind you, we ALOTBSOL ... You can work that one out...

And here are Los tres réprobos as my brother puts it:


Another great lunch, San Miguel beer, Valdepeñas red and Torrès 10 Spanish brandy. A fun day.

E2EG - got it yet?  Ear-to-ear grin.  Sheesh......




Wednesday, 30 April 2014

Favoloso Bellota Bar y Tapas!

Favoloso it is. Fabulous in English. Belloto Bar y Tapas in Brighton. Once again I enjoyed lunch here today with brother Dave and friends Graeme, Phil and Leslie. We try and get together once a month to enjoy the excellent tapas here, San Miguel beer, terrific house Tempranillo red and a few Torres 20 brandies.

Take a look at the menu. Three tapas for £9.95 and it is as much as you can eat:


The Pescado Rebozado is a particular favourite - deep fried white fish in a special-recipe San Miguel batter served with aioli and grilled lemon. The Ensalada Bellota is the perfect salad, consisting of baby gem lettuce, peppers, soft boiled egg and tomato. Add Potatas al la pobre for the perfect lunch at £9.95, washed down with San Miguel beer and house red. The addition of espresso coffee and 20 year old Torres brandy is somewhat incremental but then we weren't counting too much!

If you find yourself in Brighton do give this wonderful restaurant a visit. Great atmosphere, friendly and attentive staff and above all - great food!