I always enjoyed eating at The Foyer at HMT, but their contract for this location ended in January of 2011. I wasn't sure how APA (Aberdeen Performing Arts) would handle the restaurant, so gave it a whirl before the Scottish Ballet's Saturday afternoon performance of Alice (really good, by the way!). Not much has changed in terms of decor, and why would you? It's still lovely and open, with a few new discreet screens bearing the distinctive crown logo placed between some tables. The service is just as good as The Foyer's was. The lunch menu is concise but allows for enough choice. In saying that, however, my dining partner and I both chose the goujons of local seafood with a garden salad and aioli dip. It was a nice, neat portion of gojouns, with three different types of white fish, and a small fresh salad of leaves, cucumber and tomato. Very nice and just right for a light lunch. We had time for pudding, so I had the ginger and lemongrass fresh fruit salad - apple, melon, strawberries, grapes and pineapple, with a hint of ginger - served with passionfruit sorbet. It was very good, and accompanied by a feeling of virtuousness. My partner had the ice cream and sorbet selection - mango and passionfruit sorbets, strawberry ice cream, and one other ice cream which neither of us could identify (usually I would ask but I forgot), although it had purple berries and what I would swear was a hint of aniseed in it. We had tea and coffee, which is served with what I suppose is chocolate fudge, but was more like a cube of chocolate icing - still, chocolate is chocolate! Along with a bottle of sparkling water to share the bill came to £30 - very reasonable I thought, so much so that we examined the bill again once we'd taken our seats in the theatre, and discovered we hadn't been charged for our tea and coffee. So, if you're reading this, 1906, sorry and thanks!
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Visited 12.45pm Saturday 14 May 2011
