Flavour

Four Coles made long awaited debuts at Sebz on Saturday night. Sebz is a tapas restaurant in the renowned thoroughfare known as Northgate Street and, verily, we gorged merrily on delight after delight. I hungrily consumed three dishes, Spanish omelette, some spicy potatoes and Portuguese cod fishcakes but also munched on garlic bread (what a concept that is), the house olives and a dish of spicy broad beans. The strong Portuguese beer I supped was gorgeous. It was just great to enjoy some less usual tastes in really pleasant and incredibly friendly surroundings. I’ll certainly visit this establishment again. I’m aware I sound like an agent for the place but I’m tempted by the three tapas for £6.95 deal at lunchtimes.

The only downside to the Sebz experience was the music they played. Rick Astley’s Greatest Hits is not my favoured selection when seeking aural pleasure. I wasn’t aware that the boy Astley had produced so many songs and all of them sounding exactly the same. The evening ended with a bizarre selection of tracks including Booker T and the MGs’ Soul Limbo, 10cc’s Dreadlock Holiday and The Macarana by an unknown (to me) artist.