The main dishes I enjoyed at the Harrow restaurant are shown in photos in the previous blog. Here are the mint tea, coffee and chocolates.
The mint tea is served in a tea pot which separates the mint from the water. the flavour is very subtle. Not as strong as mint chocolates. We debated whether different kinds of mint are suitable for tea. I'll have to come back to this in a later post. Meanwhile I'm always impressed by tea made with real mint, which I first had in Morocco on honeymoon. When I make mint tea using mint from my garden, I get very little flavour and lots of insects swimming around trying to escape, disappearing, then floating up like something from a horror movie. Somebody at the table with me remarked that everything from our garden seems to be eaten by insect before we can get to it. The wooden platter underneath appears to be purely decorative but, we did think it was very decorative.
A chocolate for each person - just right, not too much, not too few. On sticks for those who don't want to get their fingertips chocolately.
We next inspected the cups. Two households both using Nespresso machines - one person remembered the Nespresso cups from the catalogue. We had one vote for these cups and one against. The against was a preference for white cups, not glass cups. The vote for praised the dinky notch in the saucer which secures the cup in place. It can't spill. Nor be turned and presented to you with the handle pointing away. (Well it could, with a singularly inept person serving.) I decided the cups were a novelty and fun to try. Saved those who didn't like them from wasting money.
In the corridor a map of the local area tells us that the waterway is a canal, not a river, which we had been debating as we drove there. On the drive home we could see on the other side of the road the towpath regionally used by horses towing barges.
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