Willie McBrides at the Fig Tree

So after several false starts at various venues, we settled at Willie McBrides at the Fig Tree. BUT this involved a major life style change. The session was at night .... starting 7.30 AND it was a bit out of the city - no restaurants in the immediate vicinity. What were we to do about dinner? By this time it had become too much of an institution for too many of us to just give it up.

Solution: eat at the Fig Tree. Well, this worked for a while until we had eaten everything on the menu several times, then we discovered the little gem "Kings" across the road. Kings is on the ground floor of a most ordinary looking cheap motel, with decor straight from the 70s. BUT restaurateur Dennis certainly has a good thing going. Not only good food, but if you dine before 7pm - two for the price of one. CHEAP AND GOOD. No wonder he is packed out. BUT of course when you eat there every week, the menu starts to get a little limited .. and the special is always the same.

After two years at that end of town we were beginning to be seriously concerned that our taste buds were becoming ossified. New places were opening in town that we had never heard of. we were becoming out of touch. Hence the second friday night dinner club. The second Friday of every month one of us would choose a restaurant, and we would conduct an appraisal, including rating and reviewing. Hence this blog and the remainder of the postings.