Dining Room, The

If you have an inbuilt longing for the meals mother used to give you, coupled with some of the dishes that have become synonomous with a certain type of education in England, look no further. The Dining Room will amply meet your needs and even the surroundings are in keeping. Let me suggest a pot of double Gloucestershire cheese mixed with best ale and grainy mustard, melted into an agreeably pliable dip and well supplied with toasted soldiers to save your fingers. As you recover from this wonderful introduction contemplate, if I may make so bold, the steak and kindney pudding, each one steamed in an individual basin and rich with the aromas that emerges from this very British institution. But whatever you do leave room for the puddings, which are a veritable tour de force of gastronomic indulgence. Far be it from me to push you towards either the spotted dick or the treacle pudding, but you might do a deal with your companion (assuming it is not your physician) and get to savour some of each.