I had never had cause to go to Hove before and really hadn’t realised that it was very different from its other half, Brighton, however I very much enjoyed visiting The Meadow restaurant on a relatively quiet Saturday evening. It is a block or so down from the cricket ground and back from the seafront on a corner in what to me looked like a converted old bank. A very distressed décor in a huge space with delightful staff who were stressed out - they made the excuse that they were a chef short that night and hence the very slow service that we endured, but it gave us longer to gossip which was fine.

Restaurants from England, Dubai and the USA make up the latest eclectic selections from Graham Layer

My work and life take me to many venues both nationally and internationally and I have been fortunate to sample a spectrum of restaurants, from the independent on your local high street to the famous Michelin-starred restaurants. I have learnt to adjust my palate and my expectations appropriately, and always bearing in mind the cost of these multi-cultural experiences.

€uro experiences and some Sterling ones

I have just returned from an invigorating and challenging experience at the SARS meeting in Dublin – very cold and surgically cutting-edge stuff, but I managed a lunch for two at Peploe’s on St Stephen’s Green, a few steps from the hospitable Irish College. No sign of financial worries here in this semi-basement Georgian property.

The ups and downs of revisiting restaurants

The word reflection has been prominent in surgical professional issues recently and it has impinged upon my consideration of places to eat. So I have reflected upon restaurants that I have visited and have a theme of ‘how things change’. As always, there is an international flavour to this.

 

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