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This post to hold arrangements as and when agreed.

When: Thursday 26 March 2015. Room to be booked from 6pm; start time 6½pm.

Theme: Bring a blind bottle with a clue

Where: The Green Room at The Boot & Flogger, 10-20 Redcross Way, London SE1 1TA, tel +44 20 7407 1184 (streetmap.co.uk, bing, maps.google.co.uk)


People:

1. CPR;
2. JDAW;
3. DRT
4. THRA.

The food order.

Current draft of the placemats (and parameters by which made).

How about "bring a blind bottle" as a theme? Avoids the need for any serious organisation...

Bring a blinded bottle sounds good to me-I'm in.

idj123 wrote:Bring a blinded bottle sounds good to me-I'm in.

First post updated.

flash_uk wrote:How about "bring a blind bottle" as a theme?

How about a theme of “Bring an optically-impaired bottle”? So bring a bottle, but wrapped — or a variant thereof — that leaves a slightly visible clue.

jdaw1 wrote:

flash_uk wrote:How about "bring a blind bottle" as a theme?

How about a theme of “Bring an optically-impaired bottle”? So bring a bottle, but wrapped — or a variant thereof — that leaves a slightly visible clue.

Theme updated.

flash_uk wrote:Where: Depending on numbers, either
• The Boot & Flogger, 10-20 Redcross Way, London SE1 1TA, tel +44 20 7407 1184 (streetmap.co.uk, bing, maps.google.co.uk); or
• Davy’s at Woolgate, 25 Basinghall Street, London EC2V 5HA, tel +44 20 7600 5216 (streetmap.co.uk, bing, maps.google.co.uk; plus.google.com).

A reservation should be made, which must be preceded by a decision.

For me the venue of the B&F is better, but Woolgate’s manager’s enthusiasm needs rewarding. Hmm: I’d choose the B&F.

B&F gets my vote!

Yes I am leaning towards the B&F. Woolgate could be used next time we have a tasting with the full complement of 14 attending, as their large room can adequately cope.

Edit: will call tomorrow.

flash_uk wrote:Depending on numbers

flash_uk wrote:Woolgate could be used next time we have a tasting with the full complement of 14 attending, as their large room can adequately cope.

Oh, I had guessed that it would be the other way round, as The Ovens in The B&F could accommodate most of 30.

Yes, please. B&F much preferred by me.

It won't take a genius to work out what I will be bringing.

If Phil is attending there will also be a bonus bottle that is to be drunk with the team.

B&F green room secured. Top post updated, together with attendee updates.

The placemats added to first post.

I'm now definitely not able to make this one, sorry.

Count me in..

Top post updated.

Team, a minor catastrophe, I can no longer make this Thursday. There remain 5 willing and capable participants - could someone take control and steer the ship home? The room is booked but no food preorder has been made, although perhaps not essential with a smaller group.

I’ll seize ancient powers.

Food order please. Davy’s website is broken, so from memory. Or use the clues.

Starters we have recently ordered:
◊ Potted shrimps with granary toast
◊ Truffle Mac & Cheese
◊ Chicken liver pâté with toast
◊ Grilled queen scallops with herb and garlic butter and wilted greens

Mains recently ordered:
• Chargrilled sirloin steak with hand-cut chips and grilled tomato (black-and-blue) [meaning burnt on the outside and rare in the middle; if not possible then medium-rare]
• Chargrilled sirloin steak 220g with hand-cut chips and grilled tomato (black-and-blue, no sauce)
• Chargrilled sirloin steak 220g with hand-cut chips and grilled tomato (medium-rare, no sauce)
• Chargrilled sirloin steak with hand-cut chips and grilled tomato (rare)
• Chargrilled sirloin steak 220g with hand-cut chips and grilled tomato (rare, no sauce)
• Gammon, egg and chips with black pudding
• Gammon, egg and chips without black pudding
• Gammon, egg and chips with black pudding (no egg)
• Rare sirloin of beef

Sides recently ordered:
· Creamed spinach
· Peas and beans with mint lemon and butter
· Buttered carrots


Link: the food order.

My order:

Starter: Grilled queen scallops with herb and garlic butterand wilted greens
Main: Chargrilled sirloin steak 220g with hand-cut chips and grilled tomato (medium-rare, no sauce)
Savory: Gammon, eggs x2 (sunny side up, soft yolk) & fries.
Desert: Nothing, I am on a diet.
Cheese: TBC

Happily for your blood pressure, your life coach is submitting the order. Choose one main course.

Regrettably, I have to drop out of Thursday's tasting and break my 100% at the B&F this year already my wife having shamelessly booked that night out way before I agreed to participate (apparently!). And this is not the only tasting I have to exit from..

uncle tom, by PM, wrote:Medium rare sirloin + soup

Food order updated.

Potted Shrimps, Sirloin steak black and blue with a side of spinach please

Thanks

Please could somebody (other than me) check the food order and the placemats.

DRT wrote:Main: Chargrilled sirloin steak 220g with hand-cut chips and grilled tomato (medium-rare, no sauce)
Savory: Gammon, eggs x2 (sunny side up, soft yolk) & fries.

jdaw1 wrote:Happily for your blood pressure, your life coach is submitting the order. Choose one main course.

I mistakenly thought that I might be allowed a treat to celebrate five decades of graceful aging. Perhaps not.

Various people in the first post of this thread wrote:Current draft of the placemats (and parameters by which made).

I’ll print.

Will we need a bottle of red with dinner? Ages ago Cynthia left in our care a Domaine René Engel Vosne-Romanée 2003; and before Christmas Ramos-Pinto sent me a Reserva Duas Quintas 2012. Should I bring one of these, and if so, which?

(This question also asked re the tasting on 31^st March.)

I plan to bring a bottle of CPR and a bonus bottle thus we shouldn't be short.

djewesbury, in the [url=http://www.theportforum.com/viewtopic.php?p=90473#p90473]31st-March thread[/url], wrote:Vosne-Romanée please.

With that taken elsewhere, the only available bottle for this tasting is the Reserva Duas Quintas 2012.

CPR 1 wrote:I plan to bring a bottle of CPR and a bonus bottle thus we shouldn't be short.

The Reserva Duas Quintas 2012 can be saved for another day. And placemats updated.

Sorry, chaps, I will have to withdraw due to work stuff.

See you next week.

DRT wrote:Sorry, chaps, I will have to withdraw due to work stuff.

Oh, no ’65. Health consequences!

B&F called to zap DRT’s food order.

My recently-purchased bottle decanted 13:00. Smelling good.

Placemats printed.

jdaw1 wrote:

DRT wrote:Sorry, chaps, I will have to withdraw due to work stuff.

Oh, no ’65. Health consequences!

Those consequences have another opportunity to be mitigated.

Links:

• Review of the evening as a whole;
• 1960 Dow (THRA);
• 1977 Smith Woodhouse (JDAW);
• 1985 Dow (CPR1);
• 2011 Niepoort Crusted (from 2007 and 2008 crops) (CPR2);
• Placemats (and parameters by which made);
• Planning and arrangements.