Mother's Day Dinner and Lunches

Mother's day dinner and lunch offers are available for March 5th and March 6th, 2016.

For Christmas each country has its own favourite recipes. For valentine's day the favourites, as for Xmas and Easter are champagne, red flowers and chocolates, plus hearts.

For mother's day, a meal out, so she doesn't have to cook, nor do the washing up.

Add a home made card with a picture of mother and the family, especially children. Take a photo at the event.

Book early to be sure of a place, and special offers. Watch out for being charged extra just because it's mother's day.

Note that mother's day in England is different date from Mother's day in the USA.

Miller and Carter are offering free champagne with steak. I would have thought that steak was more for Father's Day, but I'm sure some people will like it. Free Champagne - who's driving?
https://www.millerandcarter.co.uk/restaurants/london/millerandcarterruislip/offers/mothers-day-offer

Angela Lansbury, travel writer and photographer.

GALVIN'S BISTROT DE LUXE, LONDON

The name is strange but if it's familiar you've probably heard of the more expensive Galvin at Windows at the top of the Hilton Hotel. Here's a set lunch of top quality at a reasonable price, the original restaurant. Just walk south from Baker Street stati

The ladies has floor to ceiling doors. BeeKind hand gel and lotion.

Set menu of three course. Amuse gueule to start of tiny cheese bite. Yummy.

The table has white cloth and napkins, choice of wall banquettes or chairs, a flower in a small silver vase, a gourd for decoration.

The wine was wonderful. We had a chianti.

YES, great food.

My starter was Ok, rather tasteless egg with very salty cod cake - and not much of the vegetable - I expected a really tasty seaweed. The bread was nothing special, rather too crisp with huge holes, but I liked the butter presented on slate.

But I was too busy sipping the wonderful wine to be bothered about my starter. I was soon onto a wonderful main course of chicken in the tastiest sauce.

The best dessert from the set menu, quince, tasted like pear, fresh, with sprinkles and very tasty.

Creme caramel with figs from the main menu.

Coffee comes with spherical chocolate containing liquid raspberry.

I've heard they hope to get a Michelin star. They deserved it for the main course and dessert. the coffee cups were colourful. What else do they need to do? I've turned the cup as it should be with the name visible to the diner, the handle on the right and the spoon across the top so it is not knocked off when you lift the cup. it was presented at an angle. But for food alone, it's nine out of ten.