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Paper Mills is Top of the League Peterborough United are currently jostling for top spot in League One but manager Steve Evans has already won the title for best restaurant with The Paper Mills.
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is Wansford eatery is an absolute delight and if I’m honest, I’m embarrassed it’s taken me years rather than months to make a repeat visit. The Paper Mills has always had a solid reputation but when you’re on top you’ve got to work harder to stay there. With this in mind I was slightly sceptical in assuming the food
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was going to be as good as it was at my last visit. But within ten minutes of being seated my faith was properly restored. I’m actually salivating at the thought of what I ate just by typing this! I’d had a late Friday night with a few too many shandies, so my lunch sitting was essentially breakfast. I was hoping there’d be something on the menu that would be an acceptable breakfast option and there was. Jumping out from the menu card was: Brunch Stack – sauteed potatoes and shallots, black pudding, grilled tender-stem broccoli, grilled bacon, fried egg and salad garnish. Seriously, I thought I’d died and gone to food porn heaven. The feeling I liken it to when it arrived at my table was (and motorcycle owners will get this) like being the proud owner of a Ducati 916. A bike like that should be ridden, you should get evil with it and wring its neck in every gear but in reality you just want to park it in your living room and stare at is beautifulness for hours. That’s what the Brunch Stack was – it was a thing of beauty and exquisitely presented. It was a shame to cut into it but food reviews are a tough job and someone has to do it. The problem I had now was pacing myself. I wanted to destroy it in minutes but that would’ve just been a waste. Instead, I decided to be cultured and attempt to chat up one of the waitresses in between mouthfuls, but she was far too professional to succumb to my 1980’s quips. So, I proceeded to devour every bite and damn it was good. Everything on the plate was cooked to perfection and the black pudding must have come from a royal pig or something because it was the best I’ve ever tasted. Even the salad was garnished just the way I like it. There was just enough olive oil in it to glissen but not too much where you need armbands tied to your fork to navigate your way through the rest of the dish.
Garnishing a salad is a tricky business. Most restaurants don’t, they just serve up a plate of something resembling dead weeds, so top marks to The Paper Mills for doing a proper job. Another point worth making is that the food was hot. Again, if I had a penny for the number of lukewarm meals I’ve been served in restaurants I’d be able to buy Posh by now (yes Steve I’d keep you as manager). Once I’d politely left a fork full of potatoes and a couple of slithers of red onion, assistant manager Matt asked me the dreaded question: “Would you like to see the dessert menu?” It’s a
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