'Ain't got no dough', an attempt to find a meal in Sudbury.

Sudbury was certainly buzzing on Thursday evening.  We decided to go out for a pizza, but it seemed that every other resident of the town had planned to do the same.  So it was that at around 8 p.m. we were informed by the staff at Pizza Express that they had ‘run out of dough’ and that therefore they could take no more customers that evening.

We had no luck either at Prezzo, which resembled one of those New York diners that are rated according to the length of the queue of people waiting for a table.  The pizza oven was roaring in the background, the temperature must have been in the 30’s, everyone was shouting, and the prospect of waiting for hours for a meal in this vision of hell was uninviting to say the least.

So we headed off towards the site of the old Boathouse Restaurant, where I recalled that a new place with a name which had something to do with cows, had opened relatively recently.  This initially looked promising, with people sitting at tables enjoying the evening sunshine, overlooking the summery scene of river and water meadows.  However it was hard to escape the fact that very few people were actually eating.  Apparently the new owner had ‘sold up’ and ‘gone abroad’.  New proprietors were in place and if we came back next week all would be well.  This week it was steak or nothing.

I suggested that we go and find  a pub somewhere in the countryside.

A welcoming solution.

On trying to leave the town it transpired that Suffolk County Council had closed the road towards Long Melford for emergency road repairs.  The traffic was solid. Making a quick turn back into the town and fighting our way through the ‘grid’ we found ourselves heading along Friars Street, and at that point I suddenly remembered the Angel Pub and Restaurant.  I can’t understand why we didn’t go there in the first place.  As usual it was busy but not overfull, the welcome was warm and the environment very comfortable.  It has been a little time since we last ate there, but the food was as reliable as ever.  I had a perfectly judged red pepper soup followed by haddock and chips and it was quite delicious.  Nick enjoyed deep fried squid with a dipping sauce and a Moroccan style lamb shank.  We went home happy.

If you haven’t visited the Angel I would urge you to give it a go!  I am sure that they won't run out of a key ingredient on a busy night, and if they do there will be a decent alternative choice available.