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Friday 18 April – part ten: dinner in a cozy restaurant….
Eventually, it got to about 6:30pm, and we started to get hungry, so we ventured outside. My goodness, that was a bit of a shock to the system. It’s been nice and mild recently, but not tonight. I was glad of all the layers I’d bought.
We got some photos of Wroxham as we wandered around, and it looks like a nice enough place…
You can see our little yellow boat to the left of the shot
I had a couple of places in mind for dinner, and one was the Bridge Restaurant, which we quickly found over the bridge, appropriately enough.
It didn’t look like much from outside…
… but inside it was very cozy. It reminded both of us of a boat shed, and in fact the specials menu said “boat shed specials”, so maybe that’s what it was once…
We were taken to a table by the window, overlooking the river, although I think the other side of the bridge is a bit more picturesque.
We browsed the menu, but both decided to go off the specials menu in the end. Mark got marinated olives to start off with, and we were very impressed when this turned up…
I don’t like olives, so I didn’t bother with those, but the salad was lovely, and the bread was literally piping hot – the steam coming off when Mark broke it up was pretty impressive.
I went for the Norfolk dab on the bone, brown shrimp and lemon butter sauce, with garlic and parsley new potatoes. I was very impressed with this dish. I wasn’t sure how I’d like it, as I’m not that much of a fan of brown shrimp, but this complimented the dab perfectly. The dab was a fair bit of work to get the fish off the bone, but equally it was very rewarding in terms of the resulting flavours.
Mark had the veal, pork and parmesan meatballs with a spicy tomato sauce with linguini – and apparently the spicy tomato sauce was very spicy! He offered me some, but I politely declined on the grounds that it had been near meat.
For dessert, I went for the chocolate fudge cake, and it was superb:
Mark had the double chocolate cheesecake, and I heard no complaints from him either.
All in all, it was a nice little place, and a good find. I was really pleased with it.
Bridge Restaurant
Appetiser 8½ 9
Entrée 9 8½
Dessert 9 9½
Service 8½ 9
Atmosphere 9 8½
Value for money 8½ 9
Average score: 8.83
After we were done eating, we headed back out into the cold. The sun was just setting…
I did ask Mark if he wanted to explore Wroxham a bit, but he wanted to get back to the boat.
As soon as we did, he turned the engine on, so we could get the heating going, and once it was, it was actually Ok in there in terms of temperature.
We settled down to watch the TV, only it told us there was no signal. Mark had to venture outside to readjust the aerial, and then finally we had something to watch, so we settled down to do that. I picked up a cross stitch that I started when I was a teenager, and never finished, so it was a bit weird and a bit emotional to start that again. One day, I will finish it – I promise!
Despite both complaining how tired we were at dinner, and how we were going to come straight back to the boat and go to sleep, we both did quite well and made it until 9:30pm, before turning into our tiny four poster bed…
The weather today was mainly dry, with some cloud and some rain and temperatures in the low 50s. The best thing today was Ickworth The worst thing today was the rain. The funniest thing today was watching the living history servants in the kitchen. Today we tried taking a boat out on the Broads And the result was it’s not been too bad so far… The most magical moment today was seeing the living history artistes in Ickworth.
The bridge in Wroxham featured quite prominently in one of my mystery books. It was dark, foggy, and the heroine was headed right toward it with a murderer on board a boat she didn't know how to drive. I'm really enjoying this look around areas I've only had to imagine.
The bridge in Wroxham featured quite prominently in one of my mystery books. It was dark, foggy, and the heroine was headed right toward it with a murderer on board a boat she didn't know how to drive. I'm really enjoying this look around areas I've only had to imagine.
Cute little town! Dinn - oh who am I kidding - dessert looked delicious!! Not that dinner wasn't good too, but both desserts are making me drool over here.
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Cute little town! Dinn - oh who am I kidding - dessert looked delicious!! Not that dinner wasn't good too, but both desserts are making me drool over here.
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What a lovely way to spend the evening. I must say your dinner looked not too good to me....I saw those bones and i was like ewwwww! LOL.
I don't like olives but my son does. he would've gobbled those up in a second.
I love your cross stitch. I used to do it all the time too. I probably haven't in close to 20 years now.
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I was glad of all the layers I’d bought. 
He offered me some, but I politely declined on the grounds that it had been near meat. 
Mark had to venture outside to readjust the aerial, and then finally we had something to watch, so we settled down to do that. I picked up a cross stitch that I started when I was a teenager, and never finished, so it was a bit weird and a bit emotional to start that again. One day, I will finish it – I promise! 
Dinner looked great as well! 
I was wondering if there was heat in the boat! Good thing! 
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