Haha yes that's way more than a yard!😉 But here in or Texas home calling the tiny patch of desolate grass with no trees or plants a "garden" would seem like a joke! Lol 😂 We sure loved that meal, house, and garden! Perfect anniversary lunch 💖. Thanks for watching and taking the time to comment! Cheers! Dara
I was born and raised within a few miles of this and attended school in East Grinstead, so I know the Manor well. So glad you loved your experience there.
That's so fun! I'm glad you are familiar with the area. It really is an extremely special place to have a nice meal. The house, the garden, the history, the attentive service in the restaurant, the amazing ingredients, the presentation, and most of all it was just very delicious! Cheers for watching and taking the time to comment! Dara
Happy anniversary you two. lifes to short not to treat oneself every so often. And you two certainly did that at the gorgeous manor house ,with outstanding gardens.Looks like like you two had a really wonderful time.
We did have a great time! Thank you very much. The food was lovely, but being in that gorgeous big manor house with the phenomenal gardens really made it extra special!
Yes, great place for an anniversary or a special birthday that ends in zero! Ha ha We were in Stanton again today and thought of you! We even ate at the Mount Inn!
Ian said it was the best kitchen garden he's ever seen. So great to have all the food grown right on property! And the flowers and trees in the rest of the thousand acres were INCREDIBLE!
@@MagentaOtterTravels I believe I was in London (again) and wanted a grilled cheese with tomato sandwich...they went out the back door and picked the tomatos right off the vine. Best sandwich ever!
I'm staying in East Grinstead but will soon be returning to my home in Oregon. Your videos are spot on! I have to run--There's some Rodda Clotted Cream waiting for me. Delish!
Enjoy that Roddas! My favourite! We have lots of relatives in Oregon... lovely place! That's where my Brummie father in law settled. I hope you had a lovely time in Sussex. Cheers! Dara
Just stumbled across your channel. Goodness gracious me!... Ian bears a striking resemblance to 50's Hollywood actor Alan Ladd. Happy anniversary, i celebrate 49 years with my wife in October.
Congrats to you and your wife! I hope you plan a big celebration for next year's big 5-0! And this year you have my permission to celebrate big as well... maybe a visit to Gravetye? It's always interesting to hear what celebs people think Ian resembles. I had not heard of Alan Ladd before, but I looked him up and he's a handsome man, so we'll take that as a compliment. I think Ian's hair is a lot curlier though ;-) He has those exotic dark hair & olive skin genes from his Welsh DNA ;-) I am glad you came across my channel. I hope you subscribe and stick around a while. Welcome to the Magenta Otter Tribe! Do you prefer travel videos, or British culture videos, or food videos? What part of Britain do you live in? Cheers for your comment! Dara
@@MagentaOtterTravels You hadnot heard of Alan Ladd?!., the film Shane is one of my all time favourites and the book ranks highly as a good read. My favourite videos?, i don't particularly mind. As a 75 year old Englishman i'm always intrigued by how people who visit or choose to live here full time or some of the time view the UK.
@@Funeeman well, that is the whole point of my TH-cam channel... showing Britain through the eyes of an American who loves being here and has been visiting for the last 30 years! A couple years ago we started spending the entire summer here... so plenty of adventures to do videos about! Lol
It looks amazing. I just checked on line and they have an offer for one night, dinner, bed and breakfast in a double room for £717 for two people so around £358 each per night. That sounds like it would be a great experience for a special anniversary.
Just absolutely beautiful. Stunning! 🇬🇧The building, the food, the gardens. The area. Thank you for sharing your special day. Wishing you both a very happy anniversary. 🎉🫶🏻
Fun fact: P.OS.H. comes from "port (left side) outward, starboard (right side) home" If you were rich and travelling by ocean liner to North America and back from the UK, you wanted the sun in your cabin both ways. Your cabin always faced south into the sun. P.O.S.H. was actually printed on the tickets.
That was quite the meal! You must have felt like royalty. The gardens are just spectacular; what a feast for the eyes! ❤. Happy anniversary, by the way. 😊
Thank you so much! I'm glad I'll could capture the experience so that we can remember it in years to come. It really was a special place! Thanks for watching and taking the time to comment. 💖 Dara
Happy anniversary you two! That meal looked heavenly! I’ll admit, I love fancy restaurants like that because the chef’s creativity is such an art! Plus the garden walk made it an even more special experience!
Eliz ! I'm sorry I missed this comment, my TH-cam app has not been serving up my comments to me reliably these days! I just finished editing a video from a year ago in which I gave you a little shout out. It is being published on Friday and is about Portobello Road 😉 Thanks for your comment. Yes, I enjoy a fancy artistic meal, and the fact that it is served in a beautiful old manor house with an absolutely stunning garden just makes it even better! Please give my best to Derek . XX Dara
Happy Anniversary, Dara and Ian! Lovely place to celebrate and wonderful presentation of the food. Never had anything like it! Stunning gardens and Manor House. Beautiful stroll. Thanks for bringing us along. We're having hamburgers for lunch! 🤣🤣
Beautiful, beautiful place!! Yes, the gardens were incredible; I’m glad you took an after-meal stroll through there. Very posh restaurant, but at least not so posh that Ian would have to wear a tie! 😉
I just love small portions of well cooked food and lots of courses taking your time, food should be an experience and theatre ...love the food ❤...Happy anniversary , memories made, never a price for such wonderful food, surroundings and with the one you love 🥰
Dara & Ian. Happy Anniversary. That looks an incredible meal and what a setting. When I was working in Italy it was great to come home for Beans on Toast. I know how you feel about a cheese and pickle sandwich!
@@MagentaOtterTravels Dara. I worked 8 weeks in Florence, halfway between the Duomo and the square of the statue of David and the Uffizi Gallery. Then the office moved Milan from Rome. I the spent the rest of my 6 months working in the office, the Milan and Turin exchanges.
@@MagentaOtterTravels I did! A bit different from the stuff on offer here. Different parts of India have very different and distinct types of food. For instance, in the NW, there's a lot of bread (naan, etc) and meat. Here in the east there's a lot of fish and rice. In the west (Gujarat, Rajasthan) it's mainly vegetarian - good vegetarian. There's also an emphasis on vegetarian, along with coconut and yoghurt, in the south. Take your pick. You won't get bored. :)
Happy anniversary guys. What an amazing place. Far too posh for us, but we enjoyed seeing you guys there. The food looks incredible and it’s amazing that it all comes from the garden outside. Cool story about the guy who started that garden. From poverty, to that! Amazing 🍻
Congratulations on your 31st Wedding Anniversary Ian and Dara. What a lovely dinner you had to celebrate it. The location was also a feast. Those courses were works of art and I am sure, truly delicious. Thanks for sharing this great event with me. 🎉🇳🇱🙋🏼♀️🇳🇿🥗💞
Hiya. Happy Anniversary! That lunch was the business and you asked all the right questions. But I was totally surprised that you forewent the cheese course before dessert. I mean, what's an extra 20 quid between lovers? Did you stay the night? Stay safe. All the best to you.
Thank you. We were truly full to the brim after the food we ate. If we had had the cheese course it would have been a repeat of that infamous scene in "The Meaning of Life". For staying the night, that hotel is outside of our budget. We like to dip our toes in the good life without having to go to the expense of being "all in".
Oh no we didn't stay there... way too posh/expensive! And I did note the cheese course, but as Ian said, we couldn't have eaten one more bite! I ordered 3 courses but then felt like I was served seven!!!
Well the meal just looked so good and that place was so fancy! A months salary I would have to do dishes in the back to pay for it! LOL Congrats you two!
Congratulations to you both on your anniversary. The food looked out of this world the venue excellent I went to a restaurant iin Derbyshire near to Chatsworth house with my late mother. She refused to eat lamb because out of the window were lambs. Once again congratulations.
Well, I can understand her struggle! It is nice to have fresh ingredients right outside the door... but definitely much nicer when those ingredients are plants and not animals! 😊
Congratulations on your 31st anniversary. I hope you had a fantastic day (it looks like you did). Amazing to see you share a wonderful day here in the UK. Could this day have been replicated back in the USA, or was this truly unique to GB? (I am guessing with the venue and history, this was unique and not at all transferable, which makes it all the more special).
It was super special! And yes, quintessentially British! It was a truly fantastic day, until the drive home. I hate to spoil the blissful image, but we ended up at 4:30 PM driving home from Sussex on a Friday evening during the summer holidays. And it was raining! We were stuck in gridlock on the M 25 for hours.... complete soul crushing misery! We will never make that mistake again
Looks fantastic & a great way to celebrate your anniversary. Don't know how you managed to resist that extra cheese course for a mere £20😅 I think I could be happy just with that bread & butter.
Happy anniversary! That posh lunch looked amazing! The presentation was art, I'd want to take photos just to do justice to the chef, so their work is preserved and doesn't just disappear down by throat! Loved the floor to ceiling windows in the restaurant that really brought the garden in, who needs framed pictures when you have that to look at?
Yes, it was such a brilliant addition to that lovely old manor house! Very tastefully done to build that glass box for us to sit in and feel like we are right there in the garden! But of course, without the wind, rain showers, or bugs 😉
I’m having a hot dog ( lots of mustard ) as I type my response to your meagre repast. Oh, poor dears that you are. Give us a bash at the bangers and mash, I say. Anyway, congratulations on your anniversary 😊
I was going to wish you a happy ' ' anniversary but when I looked it up 31 is one of the few numbers which don't have a specific 'gift' designation so...Happy 31 Year Anniversary atb Bill
Good point! I should've said lawn! But I do have to correct you on the spelling of croquet 😉 Thanks for watching! Really appreciate your support . 💖 Dara and Ian
A great experience for your anniversary but one little point is that you pronounced Turbot as Turbow but in the U.K. it’s said as Tur butt similar to us pronouncing Fillet as Fill it and not Fillay. You also made a great observation that you wouldn’t want to eat that kind of food every day and it’s true that a sandwich or pie or a Cornish pasty would suffice most of the time.
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Thanks for nice sharing my friend, thats so yummy
Incredible dinner awesome
well done & thumbs up 👍🙏💯
Stunning food and equally stunning garden. (Thank you for not calling the garden a "Yard").
Haha yes that's way more than a yard!😉
But here in or Texas home calling the tiny patch of desolate grass with no trees or plants a "garden" would seem like a joke! Lol 😂
We sure loved that meal, house, and garden! Perfect anniversary lunch 💖. Thanks for watching and taking the time to comment! Cheers! Dara
Bit of heaven on Earth there fellas.
Yes, I couldn't eat like that everyday or live in a place like that... but it was the perfect way to celebrate our anniversary!
Looked a wonderful place for a celebration and beautiful gardens ❤
It was pretty ideal. Lovely location and delicious food!
@@MagentaOtterTravels❤
I was born and raised within a few miles of this and attended school in East Grinstead, so I know the Manor well. So glad you loved your experience there.
That's so fun! I'm glad you are familiar with the area. It really is an extremely special place to have a nice meal. The house, the garden, the history, the attentive service in the restaurant, the amazing ingredients, the presentation, and most of all it was just very delicious! Cheers for watching and taking the time to comment! Dara
The map on the menu is indeed a very fancy idea! LOVE IT!!!
Isn't that great?!
Wow that looks smancy fancy, happy anniversary ❤
So fancy and fun! Delightful food and location!💖 Cheers!
Happy anniversary you two. lifes to short not to treat oneself every so often. And you two certainly did that at the gorgeous manor house ,with outstanding gardens.Looks like like you two had a really wonderful time.
We did have a great time! Thank you very much. The food was lovely, but being in that gorgeous big manor house with the phenomenal gardens really made it extra special!
Congratulations 🎉 Thanks for sharing 😊
Anniversary worthy for sure ❤
Yes, great place for an anniversary or a special birthday that ends in zero! Ha ha
We were in Stanton again today and thought of you! We even ate at the Mount Inn!
Fab vid food looked amazing as does the gardens and your right to pencil that place in again in 5 to 10 years 🤣👍
Maybe for Ian's 60th birthday 🥳
That garden is amazing!
Ian said it was the best kitchen garden he's ever seen. So great to have all the food grown right on property! And the flowers and trees in the rest of the thousand acres were INCREDIBLE!
@@MagentaOtterTravels I believe I was in London (again) and wanted a grilled cheese with tomato sandwich...they went out the back door and picked the tomatos right off the vine. Best sandwich ever!
I'm staying in East Grinstead but will soon be returning to my home in Oregon. Your videos are spot on! I have to run--There's some Rodda Clotted Cream waiting for me. Delish!
Enjoy that Roddas! My favourite! We have lots of relatives in Oregon... lovely place! That's where my Brummie father in law settled. I hope you had a lovely time in Sussex. Cheers! Dara
Happy Anniversary - oooohhhh love splurging on a good meal every now and again!
Thanks! We do too 😉
William Robinson had quite the life and what a legacy.sounds like his wild gardening is really at the forefront now, what a hindsight.
Just stumbled across your channel. Goodness gracious me!... Ian bears a striking resemblance to 50's Hollywood actor Alan Ladd. Happy anniversary, i celebrate 49 years with my wife in October.
Congrats to you and your wife! I hope you plan a big celebration for next year's big 5-0! And this year you have my permission to celebrate big as well... maybe a visit to Gravetye?
It's always interesting to hear what celebs people think Ian resembles. I had not heard of Alan Ladd before, but I looked him up and he's a handsome man, so we'll take that as a compliment. I think Ian's hair is a lot curlier though ;-) He has those exotic dark hair & olive skin genes from his Welsh DNA ;-) I am glad you came across my channel. I hope you subscribe and stick around a while. Welcome to the Magenta Otter Tribe! Do you prefer travel videos, or British culture videos, or food videos? What part of Britain do you live in? Cheers for your comment! Dara
@@MagentaOtterTravels Thank you. I'm going to surprise my wife big time with what i've got planned.
@@MagentaOtterTravels You hadnot heard of Alan Ladd?!., the film Shane is one of my all time favourites and the book ranks highly as a good read. My favourite videos?, i don't particularly mind. As a 75 year old Englishman i'm always intrigued by how people who visit or choose to live here full time or some of the time view the UK.
@@Funeeman well, that is the whole point of my TH-cam channel... showing Britain through the eyes of an American who loves being here and has been visiting for the last 30 years! A couple years ago we started spending the entire summer here... so plenty of adventures to do videos about! Lol
@@Funeeman wonderful!!
Enjoyed hearing about William Robinson, Ian. Love wildflower gardens!
He was a great rags to riches story!!
3:00 Oh those tiles are beautiful...They are similar to the "Delft tiles". Maybe they are even tiles from Delft.
I wondered if they were Delft. The "devil" girl may have really just been wearing a traditional Dutch cap??
@@MagentaOtterTravels I really think they are!!! 💙🤍💙
It looks amazing. I just checked on line and they have an offer for one night, dinner, bed and breakfast in a double room for £717 for two people so around £358 each per night. That sounds like it would be a great experience for a special anniversary.
That would certainly be a special treat! But we are so frugal, we usually just visit places like this for lunch instead ;-)
Just absolutely beautiful. Stunning! 🇬🇧The building, the food, the gardens. The area. Thank you for sharing your special day. Wishing you both a very happy anniversary. 🎉🫶🏻
Thanks so much! It really was a special meal in a spectacular setting! 💖
That's not dinner. That's ART!!!! 😲
Yes, for sure.
The garden looks Gorgeous. 🇬🇧😊
Luckily we are having lunch in 10 minutes.....because I am starving just by watching your delicious meal!!! 😂
Haha good planning! 👍
Fun fact:
P.OS.H. comes from "port (left side) outward, starboard (right side) home"
If you were rich and travelling by ocean liner to North America and back from the UK, you wanted the sun in your cabin both ways. Your cabin always faced south into the sun.
P.O.S.H. was actually printed on the tickets.
That is an extremely fun fact! I had no idea. Thanks for sharing!
That was quite the meal! You must have felt like royalty. The gardens are just spectacular; what a feast for the eyes! ❤. Happy anniversary, by the way. 😊
Thanks so much! It was exceptional. Really glad we could do that!
I think you must have felt like Nick Leason after the meal..
It feels so good to see!
Wow. What a splendiferous place. Happy Anniversary. 🎎
Thanks so much! Ian found a really good place to celebrate. It was perfect!
Normally I'd say the prices in these fancy restaurants are extremely silly, but that looks worth every penny!
Yes, agree and agree.
This garden has a wonderful cottage core vibe and the view is amazing too. 💖
Yes and yes!
Happy Anniversary!! What a beautiful meal! The desserts look so fancy!❤
Hi Dara and Ian. Lovely informative video. Happy anniversary and wishing you many more years of Health, Wealth and Happiness xx
Thanks so much, friend! 💖
I thoroughly enjoyed this video, from the meal, to the garden, to the kitchen garden. Just lovely! Happy anniversary!
Thank you so much! I'm glad I'll could capture the experience so that we can remember it in years to come. It really was a special place! Thanks for watching and taking the time to comment. 💖 Dara
Thanks so much! I'm glad you enjoyed it too 💖
Happy anniversary you two! That meal looked heavenly! I’ll admit, I love fancy restaurants like that because the chef’s creativity is such an art! Plus the garden walk made it an even more special experience!
Eliz ! I'm sorry I missed this comment, my TH-cam app has not been serving up my comments to me reliably these days! I just finished editing a video from a year ago in which I gave you a little shout out. It is being published on Friday and is about Portobello Road 😉
Thanks for your comment. Yes, I enjoy a fancy artistic meal, and the fact that it is served in a beautiful old manor house with an absolutely stunning garden just makes it even better! Please give my best to Derek . XX Dara
@@MagentaOtterTravels No problem at all! And sounds fun, I can't wait to watch! 😀😀
Excellent
Happy Anniversary, Dara and Ian! Lovely place to celebrate and wonderful presentation of the food. Never had anything like it! Stunning gardens and Manor House. Beautiful stroll. Thanks for bringing us along. We're having hamburgers for lunch! 🤣🤣
I just watched a video where you had bacon cheeseburgers 🍔😉
Look at that drive ❤
Beautiful, beautiful place!! Yes, the gardens were incredible; I’m glad you took an after-meal stroll through there. Very posh restaurant, but at least not so posh that Ian would have to wear a tie! 😉
My thoughts exactly. At least I could dine in comfort!
Nobody seems to wear ties these days... but it was fancy enough to warrant one 😉
Congratulations!! That looked so so gooood!
It was! 😋
Thank you Dara. And Happy Anniversary. The weather that day seemed to be in your favor. Just Lovely.
Yes, the weather held off the rain long enough for us to walk around the garden a bit!
Wow! Awesome place and meal! What a garden too! I love both of your reflections on the garden afterwards too. Lovely video!
Thanks so much, Louise!💖
ooooooo - I LOVE Gravetye - been a couple of times - never disappoints
I'm glad you know it! Such a special place 💖
Multiple knives and fancy tiles. What a restaurant!
So many knives 🔪!!
congratulations on your anniversary. Not sure it is my type of food but it looked good.
Did you think the portions were too small and fussy?
@@MagentaOtterTravels very small potions. I am a meat and 3 veggies person.
@@trevorveail I understand. It's very fancy and I wouldn't want to eat that way regularly 😉
You guys could sell me on any food but that all looked genuinely incredible. What a lovely garden and after meal stroll ❤
Ian always likes a walk after a big meal 😉
Ah Happy Anniversary To You Both, The Food Looked Amazing, What a Gorgeous Place.
Thanks so much! It really was a treat both for our eyes as well as our taste buds!!
What a beautiful drive and a fabulous garden. Loved that the map of the garden was shown on the menu! How cool is that!
It really is a phenomenal kitchen garden!
I just love small portions of well cooked food and lots of courses taking your time, food should be an experience and theatre ...love the food ❤...Happy anniversary , memories made, never a price for such wonderful food, surroundings and with the one you love 🥰
Awwww well said!!
Beautiful looking food ,I’m not a big eater so small taster menu’s are great.Happy Anniversary you two❤
It was a perfect anniversary meal! Only 30 minutes outside London, but feels like the wild countryside.
Dara & Ian. Happy Anniversary. That looks an incredible meal and what a setting.
When I was working in Italy it was great to come home for Beans on Toast. I know how you feel about a cheese and pickle sandwich!
Haha fancy is fabulous occasionally... but having that kind of food every day would be overwhelming and no fun. Where did you work in Italy?
@@MagentaOtterTravels Dara. I worked 8 weeks in Florence, halfway between the Duomo and the square of the statue of David and the Uffizi Gallery. Then the office moved Milan from Rome. I the spent the rest of my 6 months working in the office, the Milan and Turin exchanges.
@@petersymonds4975 oh wow! Sounds dreamy!!
Happy Anniversary! Your meals looked delicious to beautiful to eat! Love loved the garden!!!! ~Cara 💕
Tim Hortons tomorrow just for you!
Yay! Enjoy those donuts!!!
think i would rather steak and chips, but as long as you enjoyed, happy anniversary
As a treat from our usual fare, this was really fun! But I wouldn't want to eat that way every day ;-)
Happy Anniversary you beautiful pair 🎉🎉🎉
Cheers! Right back atcha! Are y'all going to Italy for your anniversary?
Glad you showed us the posh loos, Dara! Love the tile.
I'm crazy... but I had to show off the bathroom tiles! 🤣
Congratulations and have a wonderful anniversary Dara and Ian 🎉❤❤
Thanks so much, Kath! 💖
A real treat and very well deserved ❤
Thanks friends! 💖
What a glorious place. Happy anniversary xx
There are lots of places where you can eat fancy expensive food, but the setting for that restaurant was what really put it over the top!
I am so glad you had a lovely tie.
A very Happy Anniversary to you two!!❤
Thanks Ruth! Maybe you two need to go there on your next trip to England... only 30 minutes outside London 😉
What’s the ice cream today Jim ?
The garden salad is very impressive as is the bread selection ❤
That bread was good enough to cheat on your keto! 🤣
Home ground here. Lovely to see, even from 5,000 miles to the east, and many congratulations to you both.
You're five thousand miles away? Whereabouts?
Thanks for the congratulations! 💖
@@MagentaOtterTravels Calcutta (Kolkata), India :)
@@Tom-xy9yy that's a long way away! Did you see my recent video about Indian food in London?
@@MagentaOtterTravels I did! A bit different from the stuff on offer here. Different parts of India have very different and distinct types of food. For instance, in the NW, there's a lot of bread (naan, etc) and meat. Here in the east there's a lot of fish and rice. In the west (Gujarat, Rajasthan) it's mainly vegetarian - good vegetarian. There's also an emphasis on vegetarian, along with coconut and yoghurt, in the south. Take your pick. You won't get bored. :)
@@Tom-xy9yy I love that a lot of the cuisine is vegetarian, and that as you say it is good vegetarian food, very tasty and lots of variety!
Happy anniversary guys. What an amazing place. Far too posh for us, but we enjoyed seeing you guys there. The food looks incredible and it’s amazing that it all comes from the garden outside. Cool story about the guy who started that garden. From poverty, to that! Amazing 🍻
We are not posh enough either!! 🤣
Le Manoir aux Quatre Saisons next..
Congratulations on your 31st Wedding Anniversary Ian and Dara. What a lovely dinner you had to celebrate it. The location was also a feast. Those courses were works of art and I am sure, truly delicious. Thanks for sharing this great event with me. 🎉🇳🇱🙋🏼♀️🇳🇿🥗💞
I agree with everything you said. The location was superb, and the food was very artfully presented! Thanks for watching, Anita!
Ian seems very passionate about gardening, he just needs his own stately home and gardens 🏡
Yes, he is passionate about gardens! He really is in heaven when he gets to walk around all those lovely plants
Hiya. Happy Anniversary! That lunch was the business and you asked all the right questions. But I was totally surprised that you forewent the cheese course before dessert. I mean, what's an extra 20 quid between lovers? Did you stay the night? Stay safe. All the best to you.
Thank you. We were truly full to the brim after the food we ate. If we had had the cheese course it would have been a repeat of that infamous scene in "The Meaning of Life". For staying the night, that hotel is outside of our budget. We like to dip our toes in the good life without having to go to the expense of being "all in".
@@ians3586 - No, you definitely wouldn't even want one "wafer-thin after dinner mint".
Oh no we didn't stay there... way too posh/expensive! And I did note the cheese course, but as Ian said, we couldn't have eaten one more bite! I ordered 3 courses but then felt like I was served seven!!!
Ian is so posh he has a "riches to riches" story!
Naaah he had humble roots 😉
was that the tasters, so yo knew what the full meal would be like to order?
the manor and grounds/gardens looked lovely.
It was a lovely place! And it is surprising how full you can feel after seven courses that are each very tiny 🤣
@@MagentaOtterTravels 1 good fart and I would be empty after only eating that. lol
@@jeanlongsden1696 gross 🤢
It's impossible, magenta flowers can't be gratuitous. Congratulations on your anniversary.
Good point. They are essential! And thank you!
Well the meal just looked so good and that place was so fancy! A months salary I would have to do dishes in the back to pay for it! LOL Congrats you two!
It was not cheap! Definitely a special splurge 😉
Happy Anniversary. You know you are in a posh restaurant if you have pea emulsion. It looked gorgeous
To be honest, I think we had a lot of emotions! And yes, very posh indeed!💖
Congratulations to you both on your anniversary. The food looked out of this world the venue excellent I went to a restaurant iin Derbyshire near to Chatsworth house with my late mother. She refused to eat lamb because out of the window were lambs. Once again congratulations.
Well, I can understand her struggle! It is nice to have fresh ingredients right outside the door... but definitely much nicer when those ingredients are plants and not animals! 😊
It looks lovely, although I think my husband would have considered that torture, haha.
Yes I've heard similar complaints from several male subscribers 😂😂
I’ll bet you needed the chip shop after that experience..
No, the portions LOOKED small, but after eating so many courses AND more than a couple of the delicious breadrolls... I was STUFFED!
Congratulations on your 31st anniversary. I hope you had a fantastic day (it looks like you did). Amazing to see you share a wonderful day here in the UK. Could this day have been replicated back in the USA, or was this truly unique to GB? (I am guessing with the venue and history, this was unique and not at all transferable, which makes it all the more special).
It was super special! And yes, quintessentially British! It was a truly fantastic day, until the drive home. I hate to spoil the blissful image, but we ended up at 4:30 PM driving home from Sussex on a Friday evening during the summer holidays. And it was raining! We were stuck in gridlock on the M 25 for hours.... complete soul crushing misery! We will never make that mistake again
@@MagentaOtterTravels I am sorry to hear that, that is an absolute bummer. Well, at least is was very good up until 4:30...and a definite lesson
@@forthedisenfranchised4366 oh yes! Lesson learnt 😉
The food looked so delicious - and was presented beautifully. Like a work of art ❤ Haha, the mushroom puree did look like a chocolate pudding!
Yes chocolate pudding American style 😉
Happy Anniversary! ❤
Thanks Sandra! 😘
Looks fantastic & a great way to celebrate your anniversary. Don't know how you managed to resist that extra cheese course for a mere £20😅
I think I could be happy just with that bread & butter.
Yes, on a typical day I would want ONLY the brioche, butter and CHEESE!
Wow 31 yrs congrats. We are 28
Nice! You're catching up! LOL
Hey Happy Anniversary y'all!!
Thanks friend!
"These aren't your typical mushy peas." Ha ha ha!
I've had some posh mushy peas in the past, but these were definitely the most fancy!
I’ve bought gooseberry soufflé in Morrisons which was delicious..
I love a good soufflé 😋
Thanks for your dedication to your art, at least I got to see all the things to avoid (remember simple palate) 😊
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Happy anniversary! That posh lunch looked amazing! The presentation was art, I'd want to take photos just to do justice to the chef, so their work is preserved and doesn't just disappear down by throat! Loved the floor to ceiling windows in the restaurant that really brought the garden in, who needs framed pictures when you have that to look at?
Yes, it was such a brilliant addition to that lovely old manor house! Very tastefully done to build that glass box for us to sit in and feel like we are right there in the garden! But of course, without the wind, rain showers, or bugs 😉
How do they keep the moss at bay ?
Good question! I have no idea 🤷♀️
Hiya Dara, did Gordon Ramsay design these meals? they looked really nice, this is Choppy in Whitehaven, Cumbria, England
Someone even better than Gordon, I'd say 😉
Congratulations on 31 years of marriage! 💞
Thanks Julie! 😘
I’m having a hot dog ( lots of mustard ) as I type my response to your meagre repast. Oh, poor dears that you are. Give us a bash at the bangers and mash, I say. Anyway, congratulations on your anniversary 😊
Trust me, the meal was much more filling and satisfying than it looked! The bread alone was fabulous!
Congratulations, you two. Beats McDonalds any day.
Indeed!!!
And Whataburger!!
It's been a while since I've had this kind of dining experience.
I was going to wish you a happy ' ' anniversary but when I looked it up 31 is one of the few numbers which don't have a specific 'gift' designation so...Happy 31 Year Anniversary atb Bill
Let's call it the magenta anniversary 💖😉
@@MagentaOtterTravels but of course
Celebrities will have their own live in gourmet chef…ill bet Liberace enjoyed unforgettable repas..
sweet
When North Americans use the word `fancy,` I presume they mean what we`d regard as `posh.`
Yes, exactly! We don't really use the word posh. Except when we're talking about Victoria Beckham lol!
Crochet 'lawn', not field guys! Great channel by the way.
Good point! I should've said lawn! But I do have to correct you on the spelling of croquet 😉
Thanks for watching! Really appreciate your support . 💖 Dara and Ian
@@MagentaOtterTravels Aha! Thanks!
A great experience for your anniversary but one little point is that you pronounced Turbot as Turbow but in the U.K. it’s said as Tur butt similar to us pronouncing Fillet as Fill it and not Fillay.
You also made a great observation that you wouldn’t want to eat that kind of food every day and it’s true that a sandwich or pie or a Cornish pasty would suffice most of the time.
I know, I was being defiant! I insist on pronouncing fillet as well as turbot the American way lol
@@MagentaOtterTravels To be fair you do pronounce nearly all your British words correctly including tomato !
@@philipmason9537 well, I do try! However I have strong opinions when it comes to a few words and I refuse to convert to the British pronunciation 🤣🤣
And we always get told off for taking phone in to the WC😂
I am very naughty. Plus, how could I ever have made my British bathrooms video without doing that?
But if you weren't gauche....we would not have all those wonderful videos! So please continue to be gauche 😉😁
I'm pushing the boundaries of being acceptably gauche 😉
I tried Truffle crisps once…
I love truffle fries! With a sprinkling of Parmesan!
Nicest back yard ive seen..
Yes really wonderful!
@@MagentaOtterTravels i try and create a cottage garden in my habitat…its not easy,im struggling to establish a lush verdant lavender…to create a feeling of envy within my peer group..
@@griswald7156 haha 😂 interesting goal