Biscay Bay restaurant, Harrogate

The rain stopped and I dragged myself out. I quickly found that I was in an areas with lots of nice restaurants.

The Biscaya Bay was particularly attractive with a distinctive Spanish colouring on the outside. For some reason the photos I took did not work. So I’ll go back tomorrow and take them.

Inside I got talking to the chef, who is Basque, and I told him I had worked with a number of really nice Basque students and that my wife and I keep planning a trip along the northern Spanish coast through the Basque and Galicia regions.

The food was good a crayfish salad.

I enjoyed the food and ever so often the chef and the waiter would come and chat with me about Spain, holidays, the crime festival and of course the rotten weather.

So I have a great meal of lamb cutlets with vegetables.

And the bill?

£34 including two glasses of wine and coffee. A really good deal.

Biscaya Bay website