Birthday at Porada

I'm currently sitting in a lovely spa hotel in Chester called The Craxton Wood Hotel as a part of my birthday present from my beloved, and I thought what a beautiful setting to review and also to tell you about the other places I've visited this week. The hotel will come along in the next post.

Birthday Meal

Last night was my birthday meal with my basketball friends and my work friends, at Porada, one of my favourite little restaurants in Whitefield, Bury. It was really nice to have the two groups together and also gave me an opportunity to be able to review a place based on a 'group wheelchair booking', which some places can seemingly want to run a mile from. 

When I phoned to book the table there was 12 of us and 5 were in wheelchairs. There was a little confusion from the man on the phone originally who didn't seem to know whether they would be able to accommodate that group size at my requested time of 7.30. I heard him shout someone else who came to the phone and informed me it would need to be earlier. The pessimist in me wondered whether this was due to the party size or the amount of wheelchairs in the group as it could have been more difficult to position us in the peak time of 7.30. When I spoke to a friend she did remind me that there are a lot of booths in the dining area though so I could see why they might have been worried, in terms of logistics of seating so many.