Lunch at George's Great British Kitchen in Nottingham, England

The past couple of months have been busy, so this one is a little bit late in coming. Several weeks ago, I found myself in Nottingham and went to George's Great British Kitchen restaurant for a late lunch. The restaurant is modelled after a British seaside restaurant with a menu containing food and drinks inspired and found on Britain's seaside towns. Of course, Nottingham is nowhere near the coast, but this restaurant brings the seaside to Nottingham!

Upon entering, guests could even take their photographs standing beside the seaside-inspired characters. These crude illustrations of men and woman can be found printed on postcards and in photograph boards in all British seaside towns and have seem to have become synonomous with the old-fashioned seaside town.

We were given menus printed on newspaper; newspaper is what the seaside fish and chips were wrapped in in the older times at the seaside. Now, bring on the cocktails. I ordered the Fab cocktail, which was on a two-for-one office. The cocktail tasted like a Fab ice lolly (popsicle to my American readers). The Fab is a creamy lolly with fruity flavours in three tier layer, the bottom layer covered with sprinkles. The other cocktail that I had was called "Candy Annie" and was a fruity cocktail with candy floss (cotton candy) on top. Again, both the ice lolly-inspired cocktail and the candy floss are a throw back to the carnival-like sweets and ice cream shops along the seaside.

For the main, my partner had paprika fish and chips served on mashed potato, but he started to eat it before I could get a photograph as my meal came out afterwards. My meal was chicken on mashed potato.

For dessert, I had the deep-fried Cadbury Fudge bars with vanilla ice cream. The chocolate was very rich, but I did like the ice cream. The other options for dessert were ice cream or doughnuts as they are items that can be found on the seaside.

Overall, this was a good meal. The chicken was a little drier than I would have hoped, but I like the theme of this restaurant and its celebration of British food.