Address: 152-154 Hills Road, Cambridge, CB2 8PB [google maps]
Telephone: 01223 413 000
Website: http://www.restaurantalimentum.co.uk
Opening hours: 12:00-14.30, 18:00-22.00 Monday-Saturday.
Type: Master Chef with foam and coulis.
Posh or common: Posh.
Take-it-away: No.
Lavoratoire Garniers: Stunning and what a missed opportunity to photograph. I forgot my camera.
Number of tables: About 10.
Clientele: Normals.
Could I take my parents?: Yes.
Would I return?: Yes.
Service: Excellent.
Price for a main course: 18.50-21.00 GBP.
Portion size: Taster size to medium.
Menu choice: 5 starters (1 vegetarian), 6 mains (1 vegetarian); [menu].
Good: Big Fat adored it. "Oh Derek, the food is so lovely." "Oh Derek, I've picked the best thing." "Oh Derek, look. There's something here and something here and something here. There is something different on every bit of my plate and it all works together."
This is a real foody place. The food is fabulous and the good service is constant, even if you select the cheapo menu. The toilets were wonderful. You get your own little room and it made me want to remain, doing poo after poo after poo.
Good acoustic and atmosphere, hence you can get all loved up.
Bad: You aren't going to get large portions. If you are normal. I would eat a bit before going here. If you are like my mother who worries if she gets a big plate of food because she feels she needs to eat it all, then it is perfect.
The service is bordering on sycophancy, but not quite, so I'm being unfair.
About this Food Blog
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My big, fat paramour loves food and would want a food blog to be about food. She said that a discussion of anything else would be ridiculous. Sometimes, I don't really care what she says. I like good service best, in a restaurant. My friend, Julio Baptista, likes large portions. My mother won't go back anywhere with bad toilets. Once, in France, she pulled the fringe of her scarf through the bottom of a men's urinal and nearly died from the dirtiness she felt. She hadn't realised and put the scarf back on and she got stranger's wee on her face.
People want different things from a restaurant. I focus here on a discussion of good/bad food and lavs and service and other, in Cambridge restaurants.