Yes, we have no surrealism

We finally found an excuse to dine at the new restaurant just up the hill: a birthday treat for Frances, who is great company for any social enterprise, but also a good person to go to restaurants with, as she is a retired catering lecturer, and for years there was no restaurant in the region which didn't employ at least one of her ex-students, so her presence guaranteed you good - if nervous - service. She has now been retired long enough that this is no longer the case, but she still knows her way around a menu: as does desperance, so we invited him along as well.

Short version: an enjoyable evening in good company, with food which is perhaps not quite as exciting as it aspires to be, but hits a very high standard nonetheless.

( The long version; illustrated )

Will we go back? The price is high - the ingredients are good, the cooking and presentation labour intensive, inevitably the price is high - so it isn't somewhere I'd go at all frequently, but if the place can survive until I next have an occasion that merits it, yes, I'd do it again.