When having a look at the festive menus' there was a good deal at Brown's again - 2 courses for 18 pounds. There was a deal at Le Mistral, slightly more expensive but definitely a top favourite of mine, 2 courses for £23.50 and then there was Petit Paris at a similar price of 2 courses for £23.95. Obviously all these had a festive element to their menus and all were incredibly tempting.
Bistrot Pierre was offering 2 courses for £16.50 if you could dine before 1830. Everyone felt this was going to be the yummiest and cheapest option after we'd factored in a few glasses of wine. I secured the booking, it required a £10 deposit per person, probably due to it being the festive period, we pre ordered our food and the dinner was planned and ready. We had however not anticipated that managing to coordinate 22 people who are placed all around Lincolnshire, Nottinghamshire and Derbyshire was always going to be a little tricky.
It all came together on the night, everyone made it in time to eat their food and we all had a fantastic time.
The Christmas decorations around the restaurant were so lovely
We all got crackers!
The food was delicious
I had a smoked salmon salad to start
And wild mullet with MUSSELS for my main!
I had a smoked salmon salad to start
And wild mullet with MUSSELS for my main!
This was Lucy's duck pate.
The puddings were also incredible, the mixture we had on the table was this Chocolate torte with blackberry ice cream, a sticky toffee pudding (below) and a frangipane tart.
The atmosphere in the restaurant was lovely, really rustic and very warm and inviting, I would definitely like to visit again with not such a massive table and outside of this busy period but it was so nice to get all my closest friends together in one room with fantastic food.
Thanks Bistrot Pierre!
ps. We nipped to Coco Tang for cocktails afterwards, their xmas decs are pretty snazzy too :)
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