The Shakespeare Catering Company in Dumfries & Galloway

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.