The Shakespeare Catering Company in Dumfries & Galloway

The meal on offer was a carvery, every carvery I have been to you go to the servery and chose your meat and the help yourself to the vegetables, not here the waitress asked which meat we wanted this was then plated and served with a very small selection of vegetables. There was very little meat, and it was not very hot, we asked for extra gravy which came in a milk jug !!!!!!. The fresh Fruit salad was mainly tinned friut. Needless to say we will not be dining here again.

What a fabulous tome seeing the Stamford Shakespeare Company perform on Wednesday night. They did Agatha Christie's Spiders Web. We thoroughly enjoyed the show they were excellent.

Two of us attended for a pre-show dinner - Tolethorpe Hall, just outside Stamford, is Rutland's open air theatre (audience covered). Dinner was in one of the dining rooms in the stone-built manor house. We arrived well early, at 5.30pm, to a 3 course meal of which we'd pre-ordered the first two courses. Service thoughout was excellent. Sorry no pics of the starters Chicken liver parfait (pate) with red onion marmalade & balsalmic toast, and Smoked mackerel fillet served on horseradish toast with rocket and basil but we forgot. We had a leisurely meal, a nice sit in the gardens outside with a drink, and took in the play: Romeo and Juliet. Only bad part of the evening is that I still have the nail marks on my hand from when my wife spotted Romeo on the balcony with his top off - talk about 6 pack, 8 pack more like.