
(Pic: Box of Matzos and Danone Activa Yoghurt resting on a kitchen counter)
After careful experimentation, I do declare that Matzos and Activa 'cereals and fibre' yoghurt are the two greatest anti-nausea foods I have come across in all my years on this Earth. They combine soft and smooshy with crispy yet light and have brought me through all sorts of silliness recently. Henceforth my cupboards shall runneth over.
I normally try to make things a little neater, but I absolutely have to write about this while it's fresh in my mind. We've just driven back from Cambridge where we've enjoyed an absolutely incredible meal at The Vaults in Trinity Street which we are all in absolute raptures about.
The atmosphere was beautiful; they had us seated in a lovely little private side room (The Fire room) where the ambience from the bar was really quite muted and we could all hear each other just fine (which is especially significant when one of us has hearing issues) which felt almost like a private dining room. The food was exquisite; from the best starters menu I've ever seen (Their famous 'sharing' menu ... which we used as instructed) we had some absolutely divine dauphinoise potatoes, a goats cheese tartlet of such divine perfection I think my tongue is still in raptures and some beautiful roasted vegetables with haloumi that set things off just perfectly. For mains, one of our number had a delicious rump steak, another their wild field mushrooms and then the other two of us plumped for the most perfect monkfish I've ever had the pleasure to eat, served with divine baby wild mushrooms, asparagus tips, creamy potatoes and a glorious white wine and dill cream reduction. I simply don't have the words to do it justice and, coming from the household I grew up in that's quite the comment.
For dessert we had an absolutely divine mango sorbet, the creamiest, simplest and most unadulterated vanilla icecream I've ever tasted (I think it may be illegal under several strategic weapons treaties), a Sticky Toffee Pudding which, upon tasting, lets you know that everywhere else you've ever eaten at have been doing it wrong for years, the softest, most divine chocolate and hazelnut brownie and a Panacotta with raspberries that was a revelation.
Add to this service that managed to be both discrete and attentive (a trick that seems beyond so many places) and we'll be singing the praise of The Vaults at Trinity to anyone who will listen. If you find yourself in Cambridge and in search of somewhere to eat, I can't reccomend it enough.