Cappadocia

Our first outing after the break was lunch at Cappadocia, that is to say the restaurant occupying what was most recently Café Rouge in Epsom, rather than the region of Turkey occupying the western headwaters of the Euphrates. A place which we have visited on at least one previous occasion.

There was a slot in the handy little NCP car park at the start of Station Approach - a car park which will vanish when the developers of the site adjacent finally strike a deal with the Heritage lobby and the Council planning team. The site adjacent where, for many years, I used to get my hair cut. The NCP app worked and charged me a modest 5 guineas or so which seemed entirely reasonably. The catch with this particular car park being that it is small and near the railway station: not to be relied on when one is in a hurry. As previously noticed at reference 3.

BH disallowed the trolley at the bus stop on the other side of West Street.

And so arrive at Cappadocia to be directed to seats in the sun lounge which has been built out front. Complete with space heaters, musak and a good view of the High Street.

Started with bread, humus and its friend made of yoghurt and cucumber, aka cacik. All good and plentiful and no difficulty about extra bread.

I moved onto something lamb flavoured, probably kuzu incik. which turned out to be both good and substantial. BH settled for wild Scottish salmon. We must try and find out how they do the orange wheat, which I thought rather good.

Pretty full, but it seemed mean not to have a go at the longer than usual list of desserts. Taken with a spot of warm cognac.

Sun lounge pretty full, with plenty of lunching ladies and some small children. Plenty of staff keeping things ticking over.

Followed up with a little light shopping then back, past the trolley, to our car park. A place we will, no doubt be visiting again. The nearest eatery - TB aside - to our house.

PS: today, for the first time for a while, maybe not since September, I did the Screwfix tunnel circuit. To find that someone has been tidying up the bit of waste land just the Epsom side of the tunnel. That is, cutting the undergrowth away from the fence. Don't know what the point of this limited clearance is, apart from the removal of unsightly litter - but it does take out one place for blackberrying. Luckily, not a particularly important one.

References

Reference 1: https://www.cappadociaepsom.co.uk/.

Reference 2: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cappadocia.

Reference 3: https://psmv5.blogspot.com/2023/12/cello.html.