Al fresco

• Guest 640

  • Registered: 21 Apr 2007
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  2 August 2011     07:08117861
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  I would love to see much more of this in Dover...dining al fresco! yet you hardly ever see anyone doing it. At the moment we are enjoying a mini heatwave, ideal for pavement culture, but it doesnt take off here at all. Essentially the restaurants dont do it, unless you count the outdoor Wetherspoon area for desperate gaspers! lol!
  
  Yet across the channel in dear ol France they' re all at it. Mostly munching and crunching away on moules marinaire. Calais is terrific for dining on the pavement..even a simple croc monseur and a muscadet can feel sublime sitting under yer sunlit umbrella out under the wide blue sky..watching all the other guys watching you back.
  
  The picture was taken last week before we hit the dizzy heights of our current temperatures.
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• Guest 700

  • Registered: 11 Jun 2010
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  2 August 2011     10:08117873
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  So - who's going to be 'first' to have their picture on here, dining 'al fresco' ?
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  Lincolnshire Born and Bred
• Diana Woodridge

  • Location: Dover
  2 August 2011     10:13117874
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  Don't know about dining but shall certainly be al fresco in front of our flats as soon as the sun hits this avo. But I think Paul is mistaken - many people do dine al fresco but in the privacy of their gardens (apart from the odd MacDonalds in Pencester of course).
• howard mcsweeney1

  • Location: Dover
  • Registered: 12 Mar 2008
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  2 August 2011     10:48117876
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  alfresco dining is more common in london parks unfortunately portable barbecues are popular resulting in a lot of burned patches.
  
  that is the first time i have seen a table put up on the promenade, seen many outside camper vans though.
• Guest 699

  • Registered: 3 Jun 2010
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  2 August 2011     10:50117877
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  i was there at weekend and tried a food place on seafront
  £8 for breakfast , £12.50 for fish and chips , at them prices i think i would bring my own !!
• Guest 715

  • Registered: 9 Jun 2011
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  2 August 2011     10:55117882
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  Sue's seafood stall had a party on the prom last week, her Mum's 60th, my colleague and I were invited to sample the food and very nice it was too.
  Audere est facere.
• Keith Sansum1

  • Location: london
  • Registered: 25 Aug 2010
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  2 August 2011     17:42117954
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  ron;
  thats a lot of dough.
  
  the idea of a coffee etc on the seafront tables etc is a good one
  but must not outprice themselves
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