We’ve gone to Coal for breakfast a couple of times now, most recently last weekend.  With pancakes and maple syrup, eggs and bacon (£4.85) and a better than average hot chocolate, it’s definitely a step up in quality compared to the breakfast menus of your standard English pubs.  On our last trip, they also gave us two vouchers for £10 off when you spend £20 on food, to be used by November 30.

So we went back tonight, and Matt had a Prime Scotch Beefburger (£8.95) and I had a Sicilian Pizza (£6.25), and our friend – who was fitting in goodbyes to several people in one evening – had already eaten, so she didn’t eat at all and so we didn’t make the £20 threshold.  So now we have five £10 vouchers to be used by November 30. 

Anyway, I’m getting side-tracked.  Coal Grill and Bar isn’t super-fancy, but it’s a nice place to eat.  It seems warm there when it’s raining, but that may just be a psychological side-effect of the fact they’ve got decorative coal-behind-orange-plastic in the walls.  The Sicilian Pizza was a fantastic mix of olives, salami, parma ham and mozzarella.  And it was delicious… even to a tired 27-year-old with a mouth ulcer who was once again saying goodbye. 

We’ll go back again – who knows, maybe even sometime in the 20 days left in November.

Tash