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The FOOD Restaurant and DRINKInspector Visits: Rockfish Torquay Rockfish Torquay menu sampled Starters Devon crab & avocado & lime Roasted half shell scallops Mains Fried Scottish langoustine tails Chargrilled sea bass Fried Scottish langoustine tails - it’s scampi! Happiness in seafood Chargrilled sea bass Mushy peas with curry sauce, the work of the Devil - yes, but very delicious with chips Pudding Knickerbocker Glory Kirk’s Key Lime Pie Wine Xarello - Penedès 2015 by Josep M. Ferret Having visited Rockfish in Exmouth several years ago, I was keen to see if the Torquay restaurant was of the same standard - as maintaining the quality is an issue with chain restaurants, which is what Rockfish has become. The answer is a resounding yes, if anything, the quality of food served was even higher. You do pay a slightly higher price that usual on some of the mains fish dishes, but without question the quality is stupendous. Take the fried Scottish langoustine tails, yes, it’s scampi, but the best scampi you’ve ever had, a simple dish but ever so enjoyable. Equally the sea bass mains, just simple food beautifully cooked - delicious. You also get an unlimited supply of fresh cut chips (not always a good idea methinks!), particulary alongside the mushy pea/curry sauce mixture, which is moreish. Church House Inn Churchstow Lettuce, lettuce, lett ....Zz zz z... A 13th Century village pub steeped in history and bursting with original charm and character. Inglenook fireplace, log burners & beams a plenty, with legends of smuggling monks and secret tunnels. Relax, step back in history and enjoy really good honest award winning food, sourced from the abundance of local produce from the land and sea that surrounds us. Check out our website for latest offers & events 01548 852237 www.churchhouse-churchstow.com hello@churchhouse-churchstow.com #churchhouseinnchurchstow It's supposed to send you to sleep - lettuce. A substance called lactur carium within lettuce promotes sleep by sedating the nervous system. I'm not so sure about this, but I do know that it can send your appetite speedily to sleep. On a recent circular tour of France I was struck by a major culinary flaw in their offering. Wherever on the menu 'salad' was mentioned (as an accompaniment), yes, you've guessed it, out came the lettuce. Not a leaf of rocket, chervil, mint, radicchio, chard, spinach, cress in sight. Thankfully in Britain we seem to have moved on from the old days of iceberg, half tom (served cold, straight from the fridge), and of course salad cream. In fact Devonshire restaurant salads never cease to amaze these days, the standard is very high, which is particularly important for such a major UK tourist destination. We need visitors to come back again and again - high quality food greatly helps. 32 Countryside, History, Walks, the Arts, Events & all things Devon at: DEVONSHIRE magazine.co.uk
continued from page 15 Great Devon eateries Th e C O U N T R Y M A N have shunned this and sparrows soon moved in the oversized hole but at the time of writing any sparrows has been ousted and housemartins have taken up residence. So easy just to reduce the hole size with what mud they can find and thus they are set for a brood themselves. My own veg patch has performed well but only with constant watering, weeds arenʼt a problem this year and still no slugs or snails. The broad bean plants were six foot high and covered in flower but few beans. Lack of water and too higher temperatures were the main problem here according to my horticultural expert friends. The currant bushes were laden with fruit and this bounty was year or two of no spuds will solve this problem. After the best apple blossom ever this spring, many trees have branches at breaking point bursting with fruit. These trees cope with this weather by dropping the fruit before it ripens and the stillness of an evening in the garden surrounded by the orchard is now interspersed with the dull thud of apples dropping to the ground. This may be hastened by a few new consumers of the fruit. I have noticed the crows have moved in and are pecking at the apples, almost for sure a new food source for them. The great spotted woodpeckers also seem to enjoy the bounty and even the green woodpeckers I disturb from and you have time on your hands and wish for a different North Devon experience with a few friends, then how about this. Why not charter the only yacht sailing from all of North Devon from Appledore. Niki runs the 31 foot ocean going yacht, Patron on half day or full days out. She will sail you along the spectacular coast or over to Lundy. A special birthday and a longing for sailing meant this was a perfect present for my daughter Emily. We intended to sail to Lundy but there was insufficient wind to achieve our primary goal. So we sailed in Bideford bay for the day in all most total isolation, with only the odd porpoise as company and ever scanning the flat seas for sun fish or dolphins. The photo of bottlenose dolphins was taken 2lb Bass small gurnard. Whilst being closely observed by a large bull grey seal and had a sun fish pass by within a few metres all within a 2 hour trip out. My own experience is the mackerel can be found throughout September but in ever decreasing numbers. Weather conditions permitting and this should be another enjoyable and fantastic Dolphins galore, spotted from ‘Patron’ Ahoy - aboard Appledore Sails soon found by numerous birds. Even with a daily check on all the protective netting, Black caps, Thrushes, Robins and Blackbirds soon became reliant on this bounty too. I soon gave up the task of net repairs and left the door open for them to take their share of the crop. The sweetcorn has grown well and unfortunately has not set that many cobs and for the first time ever the outside tomatoes havenʼt got blight and with any luck should ripen soon. I have had to give up potatoes this year due to crop failures in the previous years. Nematode worms seem to be the problem eating the tubers and thus causing the plants to struggle and get blight early. These probably entered the garden from peelings of shop bought potatoes put on the compost heap. Hopefully a under the trees are presumably feeding on those insects feeding on the drops. The rivers Bray and Mole are only a stones throw away and their levels are so pitifully low, even after a few heavy even prolonged periods of rain, that few if any migratory fish will be running at present. My sea fishing colleagues tell me they are seeing a few jumping in the estuary keenly awaiting a spate. I have seen small shoals of two to three pound sea trout laying almost comatose on the river bed, and it is easy to see there are many juvenile trout or salmon in these conditions. I hope they survive until persistent rain arrives. So gardening, walking, fishing or sitting on the beach arenʼt for you from Patron earlier this season. We did see fulmars, shearwaters, gannets, guillemots and razorbills and all the time taking in the stunning coastline. Niki can take out five adults at a time and is only too happy to encourage you to participate in the sailing of Patron. So this is a day you can make unique to yourselves. Try it, we had a wonderful day this time, as several year ago and will be out again. info@appledoresails.co.uk There is still time to enjoy kayaking alone our coast. For beginners try Combe Martin where you can hire kayaks by the hour. I have just upgraded my own kayak and in late August on the maiden voyage I caught a few mackerel and a way to see our renowned coastline. Summer bass fishing has been successful for the hardened few who brave the high tides of the Taw and Torridge estuary and this will continue into October. September will be the last good month for butterflies and any sunny day will bring many out on the wing. I still need to sharpen up on identification but trying to get photos of these when they only alight for short periods and seem to constantly probe flowers for nectar so never stay still long enough to get great photos. The best of recent ones here are of a fritillary and speckled wood (see previous pages). Chris hubcast .co.u k What’s on in Devon 33
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