We'd like to give a mention to a local artist based in Southbourne creating original and innovative pieces of modern art.

www.youngjooshin.co.uk

Just saw a bottle of Peter Lehman Barossa Semillon, the low alcohol version was £2 more expensive that the normal one.

Go figure.

Poo Ice Cream

Well there is a chain of restaurants called Modern Toilet in the Far East that brings together base toilet humour and food.

Not sure if it would take off here in the UK, but then again....

Modern Toilet website

A friend bought some chocolates across from Belgium.

It looked like a nice box, not too big, single layer but ram packed of the best chocolate I have ever tasted. Even some of them seem to have flakes of gold on top.

They are from a chocolatier called Pierre Marcolini.

Not sure where you can get these in the UK but definitely worth seeking out. We are off to Brussels, Belgium in a few weeks and will bring some more back.

Bad Review

However, sometimes you come across a place that you just need to warn others about.

Curry King in Cambridge is just one of those places.

They hassle you in trying to upsell extra side dishes, rice and nan, even though you have said several times that you are OK.

There was only two of us in the restaurant and when we started to eat our meal they turned the heating on. I asked them to turn it down and he laughed whilst doing so. My wife was only half way through her drink and suddenly it was do you want another one.

They added a "s/c" onto the bill for £4, which was for service charge that brough the meal up to just over £40. So more than 10%.

What a bunch of jokers.

I hope this restaurant truly becomes a casualty of the credit crunch and gets shut down for good.

Other reviews with similar experiences

www.wereallneighbours.co.uk

www.sidespin.org

and a Packet of Crisps, is back on TV.

Two pints of lager on the BBC web site