There's eating... then there's really eating
There's eating... then there's really eating. As someone who existed on fish fingers, Vesta curries and dining out at Pizza Hut I never appreciated just how good food could be until I visited a Nottingham restaurant called Ben Bowers in the early 1990s.
Jacqui Leigh said: "It was such a lovely restaurant and New Year's Eve there was legendary." It also had an impact on Steve Williams who said: "The best steak Diane in town was flambéd at your table. We were treated like treated like royalty when we used to go. Bring it back!" Emma MacLeod recalled: "I used to love Ben Bowers. I had my engagement and hen do there," while Alison Brinley recalled: "Used to love Ben Bowers, Saturday night and a steak."
Lynne Rogers loved the restaurant. "It was a small place with a very ebullient French man in charge," she said. Bentons Brasserie The calibre of dishes served at the brasserie in Hockley got it a mention in Egon Ronay's famous food guide. Seasonal, freshly cooked food was served in Heathcoat Street. The Waterfall This popular haunt was tucked away down Hurts Yard. The restaurant was opened in 1977 by John Caplin, whose daughter Judy Naake went on to become the queen of self-tanning after bringing St Tropez to the UK.
Similarly it was a Berni that turned Marcus Darwent into a serious foodie, so much so, he started the Nottingham Food Blog to document his adventures. He said: "The first place that excited me about food was the old Chateau on Wilford Lane. Perhaps not fancy for an adult but it was when I was a kid, prawn cocktails, mixed grills and black forest gateau, oh my!"
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