Sentinel food critic Alan Cookman recently chalked up his 500th restaurant review and returned to the scene of his very first – The Foundation in Stone’s High Street.
The Foundation is no more and the building now houses Thai Lanna, which got a pretty good review.
Alan reflected on his visit to The Foundation back in 2001.
“The powers that be thought it would be a good idea if on this auspicious anniversary I returned to the venue where I shifted the first of those 500 hot dinners on your behalf,” he wrote. “It was a decade ago, and at The Foundation in Stone High Street I ate strips of pork in hoi-sin sauce followed by steamed sea bass and a bottle of Côtes du Rhone.”
The Foundation was a restaurant in the Pierre Victoire chain, and before that was a pub.
Did you eat at The Foundation? And do you know what the pub was called??
Read Alan Cookman’s 500th review here
3 comments
Andy B
No Jamie, it had closed as a nightclub long before I arrived in sunny Stone. In a parallel universe I probably would have been there in my 32 inch loon pants and kipper tie 😉
Andy B
The pub was the Falcon and then later called the Dollshouse Nightclub before becoming the offices of an insurance brokers ( Kenneth Rogers,I think). In 1996 it became a branch of the franchise(or) Pierre Victoire and was run by a local guy. It became The Foundation a couple of years later, after the franchisee bought out of the chain. Pierre Victoire subsequently went into liquidation. The Foundation closed around 2000ish. I ate a few time at Pierre Victoire and the food was very good in a bistro style, I seem to remember.
Jamie Summerfield
Brilliant stuff! Many thanks Andy. The Dolls House nightclub sounds great 🙂 Did you go?