A curious little local restaurant

Thursday just past, we went for a Christmas meal with some of the other shop owners in Chapel Place, to a curious little local restaurant that I was completly unaware of. Morello in Matfield is located in the village post office. During the day it undertakes the usual post office activities but is transformed on Wednesday to Saturday nights into a restaurant. Our group of eight were in the slightly draughty small rear room, but the main area was packed and buzzing.

The menu is a set one, changing daily, but they accomodate other diets given sufficient warning. There are small tasting dishes between courses, the first of which was a pototo and cabbage soup. Copious quantities of walnut bread kept arriving to be followed by a poached, breadcrumbed and deep fired egg, the timing of which must have been a tactical masterpiece to have pulled off. Our main was a cheese souffle served with puy lentils, dessert a creme brulee with berries, again interspersed with little tastings such as a spiced orange sorbet and rounded off by coffee and petit fours. Being a set menu, the charge is set at a not too unreasonable £27.50 for four courses. I didn't get to see the wine list as far more experience others chose and chose well.

They post the menu in advance on their web site, so you can get a feel for what is coming up and jump in and make a booking if you feel tempted, something I think we'll be doing again.