Lunch at David’s Hutte after a 20 minute walk from the village. The classics of ribs, chicken wings and schnapps!
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David’s Hutte
Obergurgl
Getting stuck into Austrian food and scenery after being away for 3 years is pretty easy and nice!
Innsbruck, Austria
After a 4.30am wake up we taxi’d to Gatwick Airport successfully. There’s always a random element to a trip on the A40/M25/M23 route with accidents stopping traffic to a stand still. The flight was on time and by noon we arrived in Innsbruck. A 1.5 hr drive up the hill and we were back in Obergurgl after 3 years.
Manchester United and Old Trafford Stadium Tour
We set off on Friday morning for Manchester to watch the Manchester United football club play against the Wolverhampton Wanderers on Saturday at 3pm. The journey up on the M6 and M6 Toll road was quick and simple and we made it in plenty of time to do the Old Trafford Stadium Tour and Museum. Sadly, the Red Cafe was terrible. Bad food and expensive. So was the River restaurant at the Lowry Hotel. However, the football related event was fantastic. Over 70,000 in a packed stadium to watch football is electric. Our seats were in the family section, row 6, block 209 just behind the corner flag. After the match finished it was a slow grind out of Manchester onto the M6 down South. It took the best part of two and a half hours to reach the outskirts of Birmingham where we stopped off for dinner at the Terrace Brasserie at the New Hall Hotel. The food was fine but it was very slow. Not really the speed of a brasserie at all. I wouldn’t want to travel to Manchester to watch football every fortnight but as a one-off, it was a fantastic, quintessentially British experience. Here are some pics, click on the image for descriptions:
The Waterside Inn
The Waterside Inn one of the three 3-star Michelin restaurants in the UK and is a 3 minute walk from the Fat Duck in Bray. To have 2 of the 3 3-star Michelin restaurants so close to each other in the same town is interesting. The restaurant is the opposite to the experimental and theatrical Fat Duck. The Waterside Inn under Alain Roux, the son of the famous Michel Roux, serves classic French food with perfect service and charm. It’s simply faultless. Here is the Pan-fried lobster medallions with a white port sauce and ginger flavoured vegetable julienne:
and the main course for two, spit-roasted chicken of Bresse flavoured with truffle, potato and garlic mousseline, jus thickened with foie gras butter:
I don’t know if they deliberately do this (I’m pretty sure they do), but the legs go back in the oven and come back 10 minutes later, cooked a bit longer, and deboned with extra truffles and sauce:
