Every city should have one........

So for our anniversary we had a last minute dash up to Nottingham for the weekend, we knew nothing about the place, just that we could get a B&B for under £50 and the return train tickets were £17 each.

After wandering around Nottingham for the morning enjoying all the nice pubs and looking at a lot of mouth watering menus for the evening meal, we thought it might be a good idea to eat some lunch. But deciding on a restaurant for the two of us takes a long time and as time dragged on we noticed a world buffet restaurant that offered Chinese, Indian, Italian and some other styles as well for £8 per head which we thought we could try.

The restaurant was laid out nicely with the tables laid with cutlery, wine glasses and napkins, unlike a lot of buffet restaurants. The waitress took our wine order and then returned to show us around the buffet and explain what we needed to do, thinking this was a bit unusual we followed her down into the food area as she explained that we could have stir fries, pasta or pizzas cooked to order, as well as the normal buffet dishes.

We started off by trying the selection of starters, Chinese crab claws, tandoori chicken, mini spring rolls and much more, all of which were nice and fresh and tasted as if they hadn’t been sitting around for ages; the hubby was smitten by the ready made pizza available and tempted by the made to order option but as this was lunch as we were going out for dinner later decided not to risk it, and tucked into the Indian selection with gusto only to stop to complain about the lack of flavour and spice to the chicken bhuna (but that was his only complaint), I succumbed to the made to order stir fry, you select your vegetables and then pass it to the chef and pick what fish or meat you would like added and noodles if you fancy it, I went for lots of veggies with squid and prawn, it was bought over to the table when cooked and it was nice but a bit swamped in what tasted like oyster sauce (which I hadn’t asked for) would have preferred it a bit less swamped but it was still good; I risked going up for some salads whilst hubby got busy with the ice cream, one of many desert options including a chocolate fountain; my salad was a potato salad and was a nice end to the lunch.

The bill came to £30, and we both enjoyed the experience, we would love it if somewhere so reasonable, friendly and tasty could move down to Birmingham, it would solve the eating out with work issue in one swoop.