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Kid in the Riot

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  1. Yep, would agree with the reviewer that mentions an overuse of soy on the dishes too! The reason for the change is that Casamia owner Pete Sanchez has opened a new restaurant in London and so he now has Zak Hitchman running Casamia. Zak (who comes round and speaks to each table) used to work at Michelin-starred Ynyshir in Wales, and that's where Casamia takes its influence from. I suppose for context on price. Dinner only at Ynyshir is £300, nearly double the price of Casamia! Ynyshir - Michelin Star Restaurant Wales, Restaurant and Rooms
  2. It was like the writers didn't know when to end it. It felt like the final episode had about four endings and they didn't know which one to use, so they just threw them all in and hoped for the best! Interesting apparently Hugo Weaving (The Matrix, went to Wraxhall school) was supposed to play the Aussie cop but had to pull out a week before filming started.
  3. I think the price point is just all wrong. They should have started it off at a much lower price and built up a reputation from there. Because it is so different I'd still recommend it as an experience; and to try the food. However, I'd be much more proactive in recommending it if it was half the price, so say £90 pp for a tasting menu.
  4. Little mention for Pizza on the Park at the top of Park St. It's where Pizza Express used to be and is now run by the owners of Racks. Really good venue with nice big tables and fussball. The pizzas are really good, as are the starters/light bites like aranchini balls, fritto misto etc. All tasty and presented really well. A notch up from Pizza Express for sure. Some really good offers on in the week too, including 241 pizzas Mon-Fri I believe. https://pizzaonthepark.com/ Realised I never did my Casamia review from last August. Suffice to say I was not overly impressed, not helped by being served a fair bit of smoky flavoured food, which I am not a huge fan of. Stepped over the line of being a bit pretentious and style over substance for me. For £300+ you expect to be blown away and I can't say I was, though there were some outstanding, memorable dishes. Even the venue was a little underwhelming. I did the wine flight, but get this, they sell cans of Heller Pils etc in there for.... £13 each! Don't piss on my leg and tell me it's raining!!
  5. No problem with the drinks, but how on earth did the vid get leaked?
  6. Thought it was good. Nice blend of humour and drama. The last two episodes were a bit all over the place though, particularly the penultimate episode where things get weird. As with pretty much all series' these days, it is of course nicely set up for season 2...
  7. Historically Everton are "bigger". They've won the league nine times and FA Cup five times versus West Ham's three FA Cup wins. We actually have a higher "best ever" league finish than West Ham - runners-up. They've never finished in the top two. However, West Ham have the third highest average crowd in English football these days (behind only Man U and Arsenal), are in Europe, and are currently in the top four. I'm struggling to see why Moyes would want to leave that for Everton right now, whose last trophy success was in 1995.
  8. They still could have qualified if they'd won last night, in fact they still can qualify. I think it's more that they just aren't very good and weren't up for it. They're currently 10th in the Top 14 this season.
  9. Ah yes I see now. First leg is weekend 8/9/10 April and second leg 15/16/17 April. Then the QF, SF and Final all in May
  10. Do you know whether finishing top 4 secures a home tie in the next round? If so, a couple of bonus pts or more at Scarlets next week would confirm that too
  11. Ah will easily qualify top 8 so that's good news. Agree Stade have put up a decent fight this half but Bears have generally been the better team throughout I think. Big concern at the moment is Semi really isn't firing at all.
  12. Sexy Bristol are back. What are our odds of qualifying for the next round?
  13. Good start for Bears. Could be wrong but Stade don't look massively up for this...
  14. The kind of stat you'd expect if Australia were hosting Bangladesh or the Windies. Not the team representing the second wealthiest cricket board in the world.
  15. Used to work at The Sun, unfortunately.
  16. Whilst the pitch is in Wales, the overall "site" is clearly in both countries, so it's an interesting one.
  17. Problem is he "maintains" clubs by not investing in infrastructure. Lean times for Derby in the coming years if he's in charge. The only hope they should have is that ultimately he'll want to sell the club in a decade at significant profit, and that will mean having to return them to Championship minimum, if not Premier League.
  18. Sounds a similar premise to the excellent Memento? Hope to start watching this evening. Got Four Lives lined up too.
  19. Great footwork and off-load skills from Lloyd for the BP try. We rode our luck a bit with those two disallowed Sale tries though. Very tight decisions, especially the first one.
  20. Regards them being busy, more than 50% of GPs in this country now work part-time. There was a time, no more than 20 years ago, when GPs were expected to work full-time, including weekends and be on night call. It would be helpful if more of these doctors, most of whom are trained in this country, could work full-time and help out what is clearly a stretched service. One GP I know in his thirties worked full-time for a few years but has been on three days a week for many years now. Earns plenty enough on just those three days. The other days gets to spend time with his young children and train for triathlons. Alright for some...
  21. Yep, well aware of all of the above. However, doctors still frequently prescribe antibiotics even if they think somebody is suffering from a virus. And by whatever black magic it is, they often work. The UK doesn't have especially high antibiotic usage though, and it's largely stabilised over the past 20 years. It has however increased globally, mainly due to increased usage in African and Asian countries.
  22. Interesting from Comp Dog, one assunes this story comes from Kirtsen...but still. Shows the ECB cosy club for what it is.
  23. Totally agree. Happened to me three years ago and I did subsequently end up in hospital with pneumonia. I had requested antibiotics at a GP appointment four days earlier and she refused saying "give it another week". Similar to you, I'm asthmatic, and sometimes you just know a virus isn't going to shift without antibiotics. I don't take any chances now. In fact, only last month I was prescribed them for a virus that wouldn't shift. To be perfectly honest with you, my advice would to be slightly embellish the details, if you need to. A GP definitely doesn't always know best, in my experience, and as every patient is different, nor would I expect them to.
  24. The fact you are insinuating that it could have been LJ's decision to sell Ayling for peanuts shows how little you know about what goes on at the club, and what the chain of command was... You probably think the decision to sack SC was LJs fault too.
  25. Lansdown has now spent £214m on City, but is still owed £96m from the club ?
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