This blog has gone offshore, but only as far as Mersea Island, Essex, a paradise for watching birds, countryside strolling and eating seafood.
The Company Shed (Coast Rd) is a shed attached to the office of an oyster-catching company. Bring your own bread and water or wine and help yourself from the assortment of glasses on some shelves. The room is not opulent - just trestles and odd chairs and tables. There is no booking here: if it is full, you give your name and sun yourself outside on the patio chairs until a table comes free.
A seafood platter for two is around £17 and comes with various sizes of shelled and unshelled prawns, cockles, green-lipped mussels, a crab, smoked salmon and mackerel. I'm not a huge fan of seafood but this was very good, though could not bring myself to try the mussels. White meat in the crab claws was well worth the effort, being so sweet.
Later, supper at The Coast Inn (also Coast Rd). Homemade chicken Kiev with chips and salad and medallions of pork in a cream and mustard sauce and served with mash. Chicken so-so only, pork very good, mustard sauce really yum. Warmed brownie with toffee ice cream to follow. Around £28 with drinks, the latter being very cheap; had to ask the bar staff if they'd made a mistake when I was charged £3.50 for a pint of bitter and an orange juice and soda.
Cappuccino count: 7/10. Not super-dooper gastro but pretty good. Unsure about the mussels, but prices in The Company Shed are really rock-bottom. Mersea Island worth a visit anyhow and will certainly go back.
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sounds like an appetizing time.
Hi from Mersea Island - glad you enjoyed the Company Shed - I can guarantee that the mussels are completely fab. Do pluck up some courage and try them next time you come!
Many thanks, Juliet. Thoroughly enjoyed my stay.
why assume that what you have to say doesn't matter or is somehow in appropriate? *sigh* i liked reading your blog, learning about you and your area as well as your attitude toward people, events and things.
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