The best restaurants serving Other international-cuisines food in Houghton Hall Central Bedfordshire East of England

I went in here on Christmas Eve (after Carol singing - she's not bad !) and joined in "The Boar's Head Carol" by the fire as I warmed up with a tankard of warm mead. I explained (but not in verse - as I'm NOT a Poet and know it). "Landlord" I said "Pigeon Feet Pie all round, for everbody !" to which he replied "Nobody fancy a square one then ? Or one with a haunch of squirrel, wot licked me in the kichen this very morning ?" I took him up on THAT and it tasted "grand" as the Irish say; or "Champion !" as Bill Anderson said before he launched into "Ilkley Moor, bar T'at". Once the singing started, it was Bedlam. George Druce gave us "There was an old farmer, who had an old sow" which Betty Andersen sang with several Ladies from the Luton Girl's Choir. I ordered more mead, port and stilton cheese, before - bless my soul if wasn't Mrs Cratchit (flushed but smiling) with the pudding - like a speckled cannon-ball, so hard and firm, blazing in half of half a quartern of ignited brandy, and bedight with Christmas holly stuck in the top. And the bill was only thruppence ! I ventured to propose the toast "A Merry Christmas to us all, my dears. God bless us !" And Tiny Tim, who was sat on a small stool by the fire cried "God bless us, every one !"