Interesting queries from customers

Posted on Sun, 14/01/2018

  The girls have headed over to the Redwoods for some mountain bike riding, and we've just finished reading the Sunday papers, and done up a prep list for the dinner party we're having tonight. That makes...>>>

Posted on Tue, 25/04/2017

Customers can and do, say the damnedest things, and we are used to dealing with people who think that their specific needs should have precedence over a whole restaurant full of people. Sometimes people don't realise...>>>

Posted on Sun, 27/03/2016

We overhear alot of comment in the restaurant. That isn't out of any desire to be nosy, but purely a byproduct of the time we need to spend at each table delivering and removing food and drinks. Some tables include waiting...>>>

Posted on Sun, 14/06/2015

We had a young couple in last night who had just got engaged, and coming out to dinner to celebrate as you do. I'd pegged them as sweet, young and pretty innocent but even so I was a little taken aback when I came to...>>>

Posted on Fri, 21/11/2014

This more appropriately should come under the heading : Strange things people say!  Customers do occasionally say the darendest thing, and you can't help but wonder about the back story, the reasons why they pronounce...>>>

Posted on Fri, 25/04/2014

Rick and I have just spent an hour or so over at the restaurant, photographing yet more photos for the Cookschool recipe book - a somewhat massive job, that we trying not to feel too daunted about, by just doing a few at...>>>

Posted on Sat, 03/08/2013

Maybe I was tired... maybe I'm a bit out of practise, becos I don't often take the orders from big tables these days, but with Roz gone, I'm needing to step into the void created a little bit, under the younger staff are...>>>

Posted on Fri, 02/11/2012

Am in that interesting patch of time, when tables have started to arrive, but at a very leisurely pace, and Rhonda and Roz have everything under total control, so I've mooched back over to the house, just to check on a couple...>>>

Posted on Fri, 16/03/2012

We are deepfrying one of the dishes in this current cookschool series, and that process  always seems to segue into a discussion about what fats to use, how often you can reheat the oil, temperatures to cook at, and...>>>

Posted on Fri, 03/10/2008

Another list that I've decided I should start, is to catalogue some of the wierld and wonderful comments and queries we get periodically from customers. I don't do a double take often, but then sometimes people will ask something...>>>