food.

This year, we kept my birthday celebrations simple (yet wonderfully fun), with cream tea & friends on Sunday, then a meal out on the evening of my birthday. 

There's a wonderful little cafe, tucked away in Clifton village, called The Primrose Cafe. By day, they serve perfect coffee, refreshing juices & amazing cakes; by night, they turn into a tiny little restaurant, lit by candle light with a ceiling of painted stars overhead. This was where I wanted to spend the evening. John kindly obliged, even though he had already booked a meal for us for Wednesday evening.

We enjoyed the culinary delights of The Primrose Cafe, including a complimentary hunk of bread, and a tiny cup of creamy parsnip soup.

On Wednesday, we went to Juniper. We have been anticipating this evening for months. Sometime earlier this year, we babysat for our friends while they went and enjoyed a sumptuous 8 course taster meal at Juniper. They came home & raved about how wonderful it was. We were sad that we had missed out on the deal they had found, then it just so happened that a week or so later, good old Groupon offered the very same, very reasonably priced deal. So we snapped it up, then have had the voucher sat around, waiting for the perfect moment to be used. Thankfully, John had the brilliance to think of my birthday as being the perfect time.

The food was just so full of flavour - my mouth is watering just remembering how good it tasted.

 {one happy eater}

{two happy eaters}

 {the dessert platter}

You see that little cup that looks like coffee? It was actually a hazelnut mousse. The platter was to share, and on the whole, we did well at eating half of each portion. Except for that mousse. I let John have a few mouthfuls, then I devoured it. Sorry John!

So, our tastebuds have had much excitement this week. In some ways, I was quite grateful for the simple bowl of pasta we ate for dinner this evening. Eight courses is a lot of food!

(Apologies for the poor photo quality - it was very romatically lit in Juniper (read 'dark') and I had my little point & shoot ' hence rather grainy photos...)