Dinner parties, you either love them or you hate them?
If you can’t go to a restaurant, then why not bring the restaurant to you? Dinner parties, you either love them or you hate them? Depending on what mood I’m in, I’m 50/50 on the whole thing? Throwing a dinner part is great, if you don’t mind the cooking and the dining room prep that goes into it. I quite like cooking and there’s noting more satisfying than a well laid table! You can control who sits where, what food will be served and generally how the evening will go. During these difficult times in lockdown, our favourite places to eat have been closed. Some may never reopen again sadly. So why not bring some of that ambiance and excitement to your own home? That is if course if you don’t mind running the gauntlet of the dinner party? Being invited to a dinner part is a different ball game. You’re away from your own turf so you have to be on your best behaviour (boring).
You may be sat next to someone who will annoy the life out of you (my worst nightmare) and you have to be nice because it’s not your house and the chances are you’re really good friends with the host so don’t want to embarrass them! Then there’s the food. Now for a food critic, I’m a pretty fussy eater. So I always try and ascertain what will be on the menu before I agree to attend a dinner party. Anything with beans, peas, too much egg, or an overall lack of meat then I’m not going. So if your’e a vegan or a vegetarian reading this and you’d like me to come to one of your dinner parties, then don’t bother asking because I won’t come! If I can’t find out what will be served then its game of Russian Roulette for me! Once you’ve established that the food isn’t going to make you vomit or kill you, you then just have to get through the rest of the evening without embarrassing yourself, your host or more importantly your other half! Article by Peter Abraham Food and Restaurant Critic.
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