On Food....

Of course, with having a visitor in town, this is the ideal excuse to eat out on as many occasions as humanly possible. Well, perhaps not quite - after all my Dad is a Yorkshireman and is naturally thrifty so i've also been doing some cooking myself, but we've still dined out for lunch and dinner on a fair few occasions. Alas, we haven't been anywhere new to me - so i can't offer my opinions on a different dining experience. Not that this is a grumble at all - the places we have been are some of my favourite and have been very good indeed, both in the food, the atmosphere and largely the service as well so no complaints at all. My Dad's favourite place was Basil - the Thai restaurant (considered the best Thai restaurant in Charleston) and so we're due to go back there tomorrow night for his last evening in town.

One thing that has made me smile throughout all this has been Dad's reaction to the size of the portions on one hand, and the sheer number of food outlets on the other. He has frequently mumbled about eating more here in the last couple of days than he would eat in a week at home! I also managed to persuade him to try some American and Southern things - fried green tomatoes, grits, cornbread, Key lime pie, Pecan pie and of course iced tea (something that he had sworn never to try). They all went down pretty well. It can certainly be said that he's had a good variety of food - and all of it excellent quality. For some reason he seemed surprised that i knew so many good places. I wonder what he was implying.