Gastronomic Guide to Thanet

Tag: Thanet Gannet

  • 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?…

  • Frog and Scot-Deal

    If there’s one good thing to come out of 2016, it’s that I’ve got a new favourite restaurant. Not much consolation for you, admittedly, but for today I’m the Thanet Ostrich, glossing over the shit dished out last year. And so it was that the amazing and quite lovely Mr Deeson (he of Pork &…

  • The Compasses Inn-Crundale

    Some time ago, in a far away dentist’s waiting room, I was flicking through a copy of The Rooters Gazette and happened upon an article examining deliberately-hidden towns and villages across the British Isles. Apparently, back in ye day, we all existed as individual tribes that seldom ventured more than a mile from our birthplaces.  On the…

  • 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’.…