This has very little to do with salvaging but i just wanted to rave a little about my saturday lunch experience at Jamie’s new restaurant in Glasgow, a coalescing of my two loves – interiors and food. Albeit with a fairly corporate edge to the whole operation, i still would struggle to think of anywhere with a better combination of menu choice and careful style. Often i find you get one or the other when dining out. Firstly, the place is huge, meaning more room to display the vast collection of Le Marais and Bentwood bistro chairs. The antique pine shelves and sideboards are positively heaving with italian delicacies and voluptuous vegetables, whilst cured meats dangle invitingly from the ceiling. Napkins are (faux) vintage personalised linen. Food is served in a wide array of receptacles, from little cardboard boxes stuffed with fresh bread, copper bowls delicately lined with illustrated paper, beautiful rustic pottery pasta dishes, mini-wooden platters, cast iron teapots….
We struggled to choose from the well-composed menu, featuring many of Jamie’s signature ingredients (lemon, mint, chilli, cinnamon, anchovies). Ingredients are sourced both locally and from Italy – smoked mozzarella, tuscan fennel salami, sicilian cracked wheat, burrata…..not your average supermarket fare. Pasta is made fresh every day, and you can really tell. We went for the rice balls stuffed with mozarella and porcini, polenta chips and stuffed courgette flowers to start, followed by prawn linguine and the most intensely lemony ravioli…oooh it was good!
Now all i need is a valid excuse to go back very soon.
me go too please!
Hi Gemma,
Love your blog. totally agree with your comments re Jamies. I have identical passions!
Gemma I have a question..where can I buy some chairs (as per the image) and as per Jamies? do you know if I could get them in red?
thanks for your time!
Sally
Sally as a totally random occurence I do know.. found this fabulous and very good value site just yesterday and they have the very thing you want..
http://www.made.com/chairs/pair-of-legend-cafe-chairs-red
Hope this helps, and thanks for your comment and blog love! Gemma
OOps sorry that should have been addressed to Lucy.
apologies Lucy….
thanks gemma – i think i might be tempted by those chairs at that price! Sally – i have never seen such chairs on my salvaging expeditions – i think you would be lucky to get them 2nd hand or at a bargain. Lucy
Hi Lucy
You had a better opinion of Jamie’s in Glasgow than I did of the one in Birmingham. Food tasty but not enough of it, too pricey and the place was draughty as a barn! Lot of retro atmosphere I agree, but a bit more spent on heating wouldn’t come amiss! Love your blog. Recommended to me by your hubby who I met in Perth recently – junk is my passion also – specially mirrors – so vain! I’ll keep checking in to see what’s new.
David
thanks for the comment david – yes the portions were small but that makes 3 courses a definite! mirrors are always a winner in my book – a salvage sister fav…