The Archangel Frome

The Archangel, Frome, used to be known simply as 'The Angel', in my youth. 

It promoted itself into the higher echelons of the celestial hierarchy after it's makeover from rough pub to fine dining a year ago. As my sister, Marise (@Billynomates) and myself,  used to frequent it regularly as errant teenagers, we  decided to have lunch there, with our Mother, when she came down from Whitby for a week.

Marise and the matching chairs

We had the lunch menu

£10.95  - main course
£15.95 - two course
£19.95 - three course

As my mother has a really sweet tooth - and they are still all her own, we decided on the two course - mains and puds.




My mother and I had Steak frites with watrecress and mustard mayonnaise

This looks like a really nice thick piece of meat, but in fact it was a thin, (overdone) piece of minute steak, rolled over several times, served with undercooked chips, which looked and tasted as though they came from KFC.

Marise chose the Baked coley fillet, fresh mussle cream sauce with herb rolled new potatoes.

She enjoyed it, but I thought it looked, pale and insipid, and relied too heavily on cream for its richness.

Spot the mussle.

I decided to take another photo

But Marise was having none of it.

We had two side orders of vegetables, 

green beans and shallots

and 

seasonal vegetables

at £3.50 a pop

which were almost raw and inedible.

We decided to quit while we were ahead and skip pudding

which were all sticky something this or that.

All in all a very disappointing meal.

Highlight of the meal?

Marise's toenails.

And of course spending time with her and my mother!

Wish it was still 'The Angel' and that 'The Three Swans' wasn't now a soft furnishing shop and that 'The Crown' was still open and that 'The George' still had the front bar.