Fulham Wine Rooms for dinner, wine tasting, clubs, Christmas wine tasting

Enter a large room with a bar at the left and Enomatic machines for choosing tastes of wine on the right.

Here's a menu. Notice the symbol of the wine glass at the top.

Here's the wine glass symbol on the window.

Plenty to look at.

Lots of food and drinks.

Interesting pictures and wine bottles everywhere.

Candles and water in heavy bottles.

Ah - the food. Poultry breast and potatoes, my favourite. Red cabbage - makes a change. Plus a nice sprig of green.

Ah - thick cut chips. With the skins on - that'a modern idea. Quicker for the cook. Probably healthier, too.

A third dish. A third wine. White or red.

Wine class on wines for Christmas. £30 per person.

The back room for a private wine party. One of the wine groups I belong to had a tasting here.

Our club wine tasting before we ate in the restaurant. Ah, yes, I can see the difference in the colours!

Another room for dining, to the right.

A private room you can hire for Christmas parties at the back.

A steep flight of stairs down to a spacious cloakroom.

Pricey food but good food. Choices included poultry breast (my choice). Good thick chips with skin on them.
 Wines by the glass - lots of choice, plus the Enomatic machines.

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Angela Lansbury, travel writer
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Bailey & Sage For Fun Food in the Kings Road, London

We went to Bayley and Sage to buy cheese. London has a good selection of cheese shops. When we are nearer Baker Street station we regularly visit La Fromagerie. Near Piccadilly you have Paxton and Whitfield. Another cheese shop is near The Shard. Now we've found another great place, Bayley and Sage. First, a huge selection of cheeses.

Cheeses galore at Bailey and Sage.

The occasional gift for yourself or another - such as the apron with chickens and eggs, at about £20. That's a lot for an apron. I want it. I'll have to go back and get it.

Then you can have a mini quiche heated up in the microwave to take away. £2.75. We had a choice of three kinds. We chose salmon and asparagus.

When you are tired of green beans, try yellow beans.

Plus vegetables. Yellow beans to make a change from green beans. A huge melon.

You can get a double espresso to take away for £1.95. Nowhere to sit down. You could carry it back to your car.

As we were leaving I saw the giant meringues in the window. Various colours. All sugar, of course. How about something with nuts?

Little coloured macaroons. How much? We asked an assistant. £12.50?

Nice for a present. A bit expensive for our tea. Do you have anything similar, but cheaper? Then we spotted some giant plain coloured almond macaroons at £4.50.

Yummy. Then we inspected the packaging and discovered that the maker was Sally Clarke, whose restaurant we have been to for birthdays, very expensive but a delicious treat. We never tried out the patisserie to take away nearby. Now we have.

Bailey and Sage have a second branch opened in Fulham this week, June 2016.

Bailey and Sage
Parsons Green
34 New Kings Road
Parsons Green
London SW6 4ST
tel: 020 7736 2826

Sally Clarke
www.sallyclarke.co.uk

Local Produce at Parsons Nose, Food Shop in Fulham

Parsons Nose has an eye-catching model of a cow on the corner of the shop and road as you walk from the station to Fulham Wine Rooms.

Later I looked at their website and learned that they use only free range produce.

Free range lamb

Scottish beef. Antler light fitting.

Who's chicken?

Smiling staff.

Huge numbers of jars of chutneys in varieties I'd never heard of before. At reasonable prices.

Mural of tiles showing chicken and shop name.

www.parsonsnose.co.uk

Photographs copyright Angela Lansbury.