It is interesting to see in this morning’s Suffolk Free
Press that Marco Pierre White has thrown in the towel at the Angel in Lavenham
after only three years.
Nick and I received early warning that things may not be what they
used to be at the Angel following the
celebrity chef’s arrival. Within weeks
of his takeover of the Lavenham landmark inn we made the mistake of visiting
another of his establishments in Maresfield in Sussex. We stayed a couple of nights there, and it
has to be said that the menu was miserably ill judged and the hotel facilities
pretty dire. We decided therefore to
allow others to try out the charms of the Angel before doing so ourselves.
Following our Sussex experience we were not surprised to
hear that members of a party from Little Waldingfield had been struck down with
food poisoning following the consumption of a ‘cold in the middle’ fish pie on
their first visit to the Angel following the change of ownership. We have not set foot in the place since.
I do hope that the new owners take the Angel back to what it
was under previous ownership….a friendly place for a chat, a drink and/or a good value tasty meal. I suppose it is probably too much
to hope that the previous tolerance for dogs in the bar area will also be
reinstated. We will certainly be returning very soon if so.
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