From restaurant to restaurant ?

[pragmatist]

Why is it that articles about anchorages & places to visit seem to concentrate on places to eat out ? A prime example (tho' perhaps understandable as they're all short) is this month's YM top anchorages article.

Does everyone head for the restaurant when you reach port ? We almost always eat on board so are far more interested in whether there's a good bakers or butchers or general store than restaurants. Are we in a minority of two ?

 

[snowleopard]

maybe everyone else's cooking is worse than yours.

 

[pragmatist]

How sweet ! Or are you hoping for an invite ! /forums/images/graemlins/laugh.gif

But it is a serious point - have you ever tried visiting Fowey and trying to buy something for supper ? And there is one general store in Salcombe where almost everything is at least twice the price you'd pay in a supermarket.

 

[StugeronSteve]

SWMBO and meself tend to treat ourselves to a nice meal out, whenever time and tide allow. A weekend usually involving one dinner on board and one in an appropriate hostelry.

Mallams tends to be an essential call on any trip to Weymouth and Taylor's, in Dartmouth, looks like establishing a similar appeal with swmbo. The thought of a gastronomic cruise has always appealed.

 

[steve_cronin]

I asked Rod Heikell if it would be possible for him to put the location of the village baker in each port in his Greek Islands Pilot. He replied (via Imrays) that he couldn't put in everything and gave the impression that he thought this to be a low priority. Most people who cruise Greece have a very different view.

Steve Cronin

 

[Goodge]

Often depends on time of arrival at port for me.

If its late-ish then I normally concentrate on getting a few pints down and then return to the boat for a late supper.

However if more time available then its a 50 / 50 choice.
Its nice to eat 'al fresco' on the boat but then also if there are some good restaurants or good pubs serving food then I'll eat ashore.

Bottom line though is ....I will ALWAYS drink ashore !

 

[Sans Bateau]

I agree, couple of years ago stopped in Salcombe, to late to get a table and stores a little thin, so went ashore to buy 'dinner', went to the shop in question (only one I could find open) and spent enough on a few bits that would normaly cover the cost of a meal out in Cafe de Paris in Cherbourg! You can bet their mission statement is something like "90% of our business is captive, so lets rip em' off!"

 

[jhr]

Sounds like you were too late, but the best bet at Salcombe (imho) is to go up to Kingsbridge on the tide, in your rubber duck, and go to the supermarket there, on the (?) Plymouth Road.

 

[pessimist]

What makes you think she cooks?

 

[Sans Bateau]

We were VERY late.

Normaly carry enough for emergancies. But even now we have never had such an urgancy that has made us have to open the tin of sausages and veg bought in a French supermarket! That will come after a couple of days without food!

 

[aitchw]

Are you expecting them to be that bad?

 

[Sans Bateau]

You should see the piccy on the can!

 

[pragmatist]

Will try that sometime - but you can buy groceries at reasonable prices at the veg shop on the corner by said rip-off shop - and the butchers opposite is quite good for meat, pasties etc.

We discovered that those who'd been around longer than us knew all about the shop to avoid in Salcombe - but isn't that kind of pre-arrival info exactly what the articles should be offering ? This is my plea for a different kind of information in articles and pilot books ! Perhaps we should all write to Rod Heikell /forums/images/graemlins/smile.gif

 

[snowleopard]

same thing as her view of my washing up /forums/images/graemlins/wink.gif

went into salcombe on a saturday night and couldn't find a single place to sit down for a meal. fortunately we'd stocked up the can locker at the beginning of the season for such eventualities.

the problem with nice anchorages is that you're stuck with the village shop that caters mainly for emmetts. the locals jump in the car and go to tescos

 

[ShipsWoofy]

What's an emmett?

 

[Sans Bateau]

Like a grockle but with more money

 

[ShipsWoofy]

What's a grockle?

 

[pragmatist]

I have the feeling you may be taking the mickey on this one but an emmet (I prefer the single t) is Cornish for a tourist, grockle is used in both Devon and Zummerzet for the same kind of person and, my favourite description of a tourist, from a wonderful "older" county friend is "tripper".

 

[Sans Bateau]

Someone with less money than an emmett, come on keep up!

 

[snowleopard]

i have recently discovered that emmet is a cornish word for ant.

a grockle is a dragon - see here

so we conclude that an emmet is smaller than a grockle.