This was a good square meal of three courses in Letchworth Garden City.

The usual stats:

• Attendance: 4 men.

• Distance: thousands of calories.

• Time: start 20:00, end 22:05 (sunset 20:17).

• Speed: moving eating average was slow enough to enjoy the food without indigestion.

• Terrain: indoors, on chairs, at a table.

• Weather: dunno. It was getting dark outside.

• Number of sewa… [Ed: no, enough of this, deffo not for a dinner event]

After the Letchworth guided tour, a few, committed, hard-core foodies ventured out into the wilds of Letchworth town on a Saturday night and ended up at the absolutely fabulous Grapevine Restaurant, Leys Avenue, Letchworth (GoogleMaps).

The restaurant is quite small, ~80 covers at a push at any one time, elegantly decorated, and well lit. A warm and welcoming atmosphere provides for a nice cosy meal. The food was excellent. The service was prompt, knowledgeable and very well timed.

Menu selections:

• stuffed vine leaves, a mixture of rice, onion, garlic puree and lemon peel wrapped in vine leaves, stewed and served with cacik, served cold.

• scallops, simply grilled to absolute perfection, “medium-rare”, glorious seafood flavour and good resistant texture (“al dente”), served warm with lemon;

• garlic king prawns, pan-fried with butter, tomato sauce and mushrooms, served with bread;

• kavurma (Turkish-style fajitas), marinated onions, mushrooms and fresh garlic, served with salad, cacik, mozzarella and tortillas, DIY wrap at the table;

• tavuk izgara (chicken shish), marinated chicken breast skewers served with salad, bulgur, cacik and bread;

• karisik izgara (mixed grill), lamb shish, chicken shish, pirzola (lamb chop), kofte served with bulgur, cacik and bread;

• all washed down with 1 bottle of Kavaklidere angora white wine, which uses a grape typically associated with desserts (and eaten simply dried), but which can be brewed up into a semi-dry white wine;

• to end: baklava with chocolate cream, a pile of layered pastries, languishing in a rich, sweet syrup.

The cost was ~£42 per head.

For more pics, see Google Reviews.