John Edward Cooper’s Notes

Filet Mignon 5oz
£6.50 supplement. Delicate and tender, recommended rare.

—and went with the menu’s recommendation (“rare”). It was served with parsley butter, onion loaf, balsamic-glazed tomato and seasoned fries in a little paper-lined bucket, which I tipped out onto the plate. I’d also chosen “Rich Red Wine Sauce” from the “Choose a steak sauce for £1.95” list. I asked for vinegar for the “seasoned fries”. I always have vinegar on chips. They were rather excessively “seasoned”, too salty.
 Janet chose from the “À La Carte Menu”—

Chicken Caesar Salad
Chargrilled chicken breast served with avocado, baby gem lettuce, sun-blushed tomatoes, anchovies and Caesar dressing, topped with homemade sourdough croutons and Grana Padano

—but she was disappointed that the “croûtons” were not at all “croûtés”.


Saturday 1 August 2026 12:41:48
Miller & Carter Steakhouse: Filet Mignon Steak with Red Wine Sauce; Chicken Caesar Salad

So that she would not have to wait for me to have a starter, I had it at the same time as she had her dessert—

Caesar Salad
Baby gem lettuce with avocado and sun-blushed tomatoes, tossed with Caesar dressing and topped with anchovies, Grana Padano and sourdough croutons

(as I say, the “croûtons" were not at all “croûtés”). She had—

Lemon Tart
Zesty lemon tart paired with raspberry sorbet, whipped cream, raspberries and mint

She’d have had Crème Brûlée if it had consisted of a rich custard base as it ought, and hadn’t been made with white chocolate:

White Chocolate Crème Brûlée (V) (GF)
White chocolate and Madagascan vanilla-glazed brûlée, served with fresh berries

Saturday 1 August 2026 13:06:40
Miller & Carter Steakhouse: Caesar Salad; Lemon Tart

I would have had coffee if I’d dared risk doing so in England. Instead, I had a single Jameson Irish whiskey. When we asked for it, Clare presented us with the bill in a folded card in a leatherette folder.


Bill, printed “13:24)






Card, signed “Clare A”, issued with the bill, with “Please let us know your thoughts” circled

I paid, using the Wallet app on the phone (£89.10, 13:27). Janet gave Clare a cash tip. I then booked a taxi with the Links Taxis app. For several seconds there seemed to be indecision, with about half a dozen taxis shown around our location. One, driven by “Sky”, responded, and approached southwards along Peaks Parkway. We went out to the entrance to the car park in Peaks Lane to await its arrival. Sky would have been really pretty if she’d not had her lips made somewhat “duck’s bill”-like. We passed a police car in Peaks Lane. I’d seen it already, but I hadn’t seen the drunk man passed out on the pavement. “Is it a crime to be just drunk, or do you have to be ‘drunk and disorderly’?” I wondered. I was quite lucid when I asked that, but realising that I’d had a bit to drink myself I seemed to hear my speech slurring after that. The journey home took about ¼-hour 13:30–13:44). I’d authorised a payment when I made the booking, and it was adjusted when we got there (£8.20, 13:45).…

[2026]