Gastronomic Guide to Thanet

Tag: Thanet

  • Peter’s Fish Factory-Margate

    A lot can happen in the past.  And it had.  The World got sick. The Donald got elected. Twice. And the Queen got dead. Once. All while I was mulling it over. For ten years. Why could I no longer find the words.  Would anyone be interested in my literary Meh-sterpieces even if I did?…

  • The Riz-Margate

    Right then, hands up if you can name the country: a 30-year civil war that ended in 2009? The British occupied it during the Napoleonic Wars. Anyone? Pearl of the Indian Ocean. Temple of the tooth. Colombo (not him). Well?  I’d kinda hoped it was only me that had spent 43 years missing out on…

  • The Corner House-Minster

    Benjamin Franklin famously said, ‘In this world nothing can be said to be certain, except death and taxes’. Fair point. The lesser talented John Morton declared, ‘A man living modestly must be saving money and could therefore afford taxes, whereas if he was living extravagantly then he was obviously rich and could still afford them’.…

  • Royal Harbour Brasserie-Ramsgate

    So, here are your options: great service, excellent food and good value. Which two are you going to pick? What do you mean you want all three? Bleedin’ moon on a stick, you. This might not be written on the Royal Harbour menu (the grown-up’s one, that is) but they needn’t worry as it’s been beaten into…

  • Wyatt & Jones-Broadstairs (now 27 Harbour Street)

    I like ceviche. It’s a great dish. So, well done Peru, I salute you. A week in the Amazon, however, had offered me very little to congratulate them on other than their remarkable embracement of blandness. The nadir of this being corn juice (yes it exists) ladled from a grotty bucket by a grinning coffee…