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Best Ever Mmmmmmm!
Last Saturday was a joint birthday for two friends called Mike. One from Philadelphia, who just happened to be staying with us, and the other local. So we all went out to dinner. It was absolutely the best meal out I've had in a long time, possibly for ever.
The restaurant? The Hepworth on the edge of err... Hepworth, close to Newmill (Huddersfield).
I had a starter of pressed belly pork terrine of ham hock and black pudding with a picallili relish. It was utterly delicious! I didn't want it to end. The portion wasn't huge - but this isn't a stuffing your face type of restaurant. It's all about the flavours and textures - not the quantity.
Then for main course I had pan-roasted Harrogate beef fillet with peppercorn dauce and real chips with a side of mature cheese cauli-cheese. I like my steak looking as though a competent vet could revive it, but I don't like it 'blue'. This was a very generously thick lump of fillet and was cooked to perfection. The French call it 'a point' - which is just on the turn from raw to rare, i.e. warm in the middle but still very rare, Five of us had the fillet and between us we wanted it rare (me), medium rare (3 of us) and medium (BB). The three types of steak were, indeed, distinctly different grades of 'rare'. Everyone was ecstatic.
And for dessert? Creme brulee. Properly caramelised, served with summer fruits and a light-as-a-feather shortbread biscuit plus a little topping of drizzled (set) caramelised sugar crisp. BB had the same as me except for the dessert he had lemon meringue cheesecake - which of course I had to sample. Mmmmmmmm! I also got a sample of H's chocolatey thing, and again... mmmmmmmmm!
Not cheap at about £60 per head including wine, but for what it was, not overpriced either.
It's our 40th wedding anniversary in August... I'm thinking we've just found the perfect place to celebrate.
The restaurant? The Hepworth on the edge of err... Hepworth, close to Newmill (Huddersfield).
I had a starter of pressed belly pork terrine of ham hock and black pudding with a picallili relish. It was utterly delicious! I didn't want it to end. The portion wasn't huge - but this isn't a stuffing your face type of restaurant. It's all about the flavours and textures - not the quantity.
Then for main course I had pan-roasted Harrogate beef fillet with peppercorn dauce and real chips with a side of mature cheese cauli-cheese. I like my steak looking as though a competent vet could revive it, but I don't like it 'blue'. This was a very generously thick lump of fillet and was cooked to perfection. The French call it 'a point' - which is just on the turn from raw to rare, i.e. warm in the middle but still very rare, Five of us had the fillet and between us we wanted it rare (me), medium rare (3 of us) and medium (BB). The three types of steak were, indeed, distinctly different grades of 'rare'. Everyone was ecstatic.
And for dessert? Creme brulee. Properly caramelised, served with summer fruits and a light-as-a-feather shortbread biscuit plus a little topping of drizzled (set) caramelised sugar crisp. BB had the same as me except for the dessert he had lemon meringue cheesecake - which of course I had to sample. Mmmmmmmm! I also got a sample of H's chocolatey thing, and again... mmmmmmmmm!
Not cheap at about £60 per head including wine, but for what it was, not overpriced either.
It's our 40th wedding anniversary in August... I'm thinking we've just found the perfect place to celebrate.