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Top ten best restaurants in the area

The votes are in, these are the top ten best restaurants in the area as voted by you (so, the ten restaurants with the most loyal net savvy customers and regulars who visit this site then), a few surprises in there:Botolphs Bridge Inn (9.10/10)Bella ...
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RE: Sadly disappointed with La Tavernetta

I have been eating there for the last years and I can say, hand on heart that I have never had a bad meal in there,in fact I would go so far to say the food is superb.They have new owners now and it has got even better.Give it another try, I was real...

Happy April Fool's

Just seen a brilliant feature on BBC Breakfast on a newly discovered type of penguin, that can fly. Can't find it on their website, but they had video on the TV and they've apparenly roped in David Attenborough, I hope they put the footage online lat...

hi hopes dashed!!

On 8th March my girlfriend and I decided to visit Cafe Belge in Canterbury with another couple who had highly recommended the restaurant to us. I must say that none of the four of us have ever received a service as rude and discourteous as we receive...
Rated 1.83/10 on Folkestone Gerald

Canterbury, but not house hunting

Not a bad weekend. Started on a bum note, with a death, my sister's ma-in-law passed away unexpectedly on Friday, so thoughts with all the families involved obviously. Saturday we stayed local, didn't go to Canterbury as Clare was having lunch with h...

50% off at Zizzi's

Worth a thought, we're off to Canterbury this weekend, though BAH not valid on Saturdays. From money saving expert:What�s the deal?The Telegraph is offering readers 50% off main courses at Zizzi Italian restaurants, when you buy a copy of the paper f...
Rated 3.57/10 on Folkestone Gerald

York (being the fourth part of my holiday)

York is great, a lot like Canterbury, but seemingly with more pubs. Our hotel was the birth place of Guy Fawkes, and had sloping floors and four poster beds, proper historic. It practically butts up to the cathedral, not sure you can tell from my pho...

Nearest Wagamama to Folkestone

Just got this from www.wagamama.com, a list of the nearest restaurants to my house, in Folkestone (so most likely the nearest to your house too if you live anywhere near Folkestone. Obviously the Canterbury one is closest, but here are links to the o...
Rated 6.04/10 on Folkestone Gerald

It had to happen sooner or later

Not a great meal from Escondido! Slight repost from the blog, just so it goes on the all new (slightly worse than before) page about Escondido, part of my guide to Sandgate bars and restaurants:Actually it wasn't 100%, Escondido had a bit of an off d...

Rated 6.59/10 on Folkestone Gerald

Benefits of Costa Blanca apartment

2 Double Bedrooms (1 en-suite)2 Bath / Shower roomNorth / West facingCommunity PoolNear to town, shops bars and restaurants etc.Large Lounge / Dining areaCovered porch ideal for alfreso diningLandscaped front gardenConnected garage underneathExcellen...

I'm not filtering google's own "local" info

I have my own database of bars and restaurants and things, and an xml interface to it, see:

www.folkestonegerald.com/php/xml.php?table=venue

Reporting from the Lake District (being the fourth part of my two week holiday write up)

More photos up now, but here's a bit of video we did.We were originally going to go for a proper cottage for our stay in the Lake District, but I'm so glad we settled on the apartment in Keswick we originally went for. It was nice, all the mod cons, ...

Edinburgh (being the second part of our holiday)

Edinburgh is nice. "Our kind of city" the wife wrote on her postcards, and I agree. We got a speedy train there from Carlisle into Edinburgh Haymarket, this was the side of the city we were staying on. We could have been a bit closer to the action bu...

Bella Pizza

Service was unprofessional, rude, arrogant and unapologetic. My wife and I did not spend more than 5 minutes in the restaurant before we walked out. We have eaten in restaurants in Florence, Siena and other parts of Tuscany, and have never met such a...

We have a few recommendations already

Just wondered if you had any, not to worry. Pubs, clubs, restaurants, anything. We probably have enough already. I've had a look at www.list.co.uk but I don't see any gigs that I would cross the street for on the days we're there. I'm saving Edinburg...

RE: I don't personally

do you want to go to anything specific, like an art gallery - or are we talking pubs and restaurants?

Fareham to become a dry town

Police hope a blanket ban on alcohol throughout Fareham from June 1 will also cut anti-social behaviour in the town.Signs will soon start appearing in hot-spots across the area, warning residents about the new powers.This really does apply in pubs, r...

Wagamama today

Going to spend a fairly lazy day around the pubs of Canterbury, starting with a lunch at Wagamama, and HEY, we got a voucher: That's from this feature that a friend alerted us to, we'd be going there today anyway though, nice.Had a good week, felt bu...
Rated 6.04/10 on Folkestone Gerald

Top weekend

Great weekend visiting, eating, and drinking, very nice indeed, cheers. Not such a bad journey down to Fareham as it might have been, considering it was the bank holiday and traffic was supposed to be monstrous. Normal holdups around Hindhead and the...

How am I letting this slip now I have more time on my hands..?

Is that another week with nothing to say? Been a bit busy with all the eating and drinking and partying surrounding the wedding. Never mind the happy couple, let's have a picture of Clare and I looking all scrubbed up:Can I remember precisely what I'...

Nice long weekend in Sandgate, Folkestone, Hythe and Portchester

FINE weekend, thank you far asking, good long weekend too, but a bit tiring. Thursday was birthday day (my birthday and also the wife's birthday), and while we were working in the day we'd booked the Friday off so we could have a night out with no fe...
Rated 3.38/10 on Folkestone Gerald

All mine all mine

James Herbertesque sort of weather today, very foggy at home, and all the way into London... makes things seem a bit quieter, I wonder if the fog is really absorbing sound...Great weekend, tiring though, I could do with being asleep right now. After ...

Rated 6.59/10 on Folkestone Gerald

Yeah as I say it was before I lived there

Oh no, I sounded like one of those "Folkestone Arts" types... I loved Fresh and Wild, most people do, but I'm just saying that some people (the early adopter bohemian meeja types who lived in Stokey in the early '90s) see all chains as bad, but then ...

Where starbucks lead, yo below will follow

Hmm, that's another chain, and lots of people don't like them, but I'd rather have a few quality chains like Nandos, Fresh and Wild, Pizza Express and so on, than street after street of independent pound shops.Is there such a thing as English Sushi? ...

Off to Twickenham today

It's going to take a while to get there (gotta get a bus to Ashford), but not this long I don't think - half hour to walk from Waterloo East to Waterloo?Sure to be that sort of pace on the way home though... Look out for us on the TV!...

Rated 3.07/10 on Folkestone Gerald

George Sassoon obit, hmm...

George Sassoon, who has died aged 69, was the son, and only child, of the poet Siegfried Sassoon, and attained distinction in a number of interesting fields, read all about him in the Telegraph. He's mentioned here for a comment he once made about ou...

Folkestone Gerald update

Got some more Folkestone gig history stuff for 1969 and 1970, posted from Germany of all places. Also what's this rumour about Gordon Ramsay buying The Sandgate Hotel..? I heard a rumour that Ramsay was actually going to BUY the Sandgate Hotel (or at...
Rated 7.14/10 on Folkestone Gerald

RE: Could well be the guitarist who directed the music then

Hi Guys,thanks for coming to the gig..hope the jazz didn't put you off! Re. your query..(Just to clarify, certainly not snarky)In terms of the jazz thing- not so much a new direction. I've actually been singing jazz for coming on ten years (ooh, just...

ah, usted habla Espa�ol

It's not tapas, but it is kind of Mexican. We didn't have anything particularly Mexican though. There are a couple of good tapas restaurants down that way (it's near where we went for breakfast before the wedding) so another one of those would be a w...

Rated 6.59/10 on Folkestone Gerald

Pauly's 'Stoney Soapbox

I live in Folkestone, Kent, and work in Farringdon, London. I talk about pubs, restaurants, property, commuting, TV (Lost, West Wing, property shows), music, web stuff, and popex, and my lovely rose of Clare...