It is capitalizing on underutilized daytime capacity by going after the office market, delivering lunch platters and stationery supplies.
Local produce is best sampled via the lunch platters offered in many of the local wineries and cafes in the region, such as Lilydale Larder, set up by Sarah Hirst, a former political journalist based in Canberra, and her husband Mark.
He replenishes the free-lunch platters with cheese and onions and fills a bowl with cold, hard-boiled eggs, five cents each.
In McSorley's the free-lunch platters are kept at the end of the bar nearer the street door, and several times every afternoon kids sidle in, snatch handfuls of cheese and slices of onion, and dash out, slamming the door.
Fox Road, West Bridgford, Nottingham, NG2 6AJ; 0115 981 9960, larwoodandvoce.co.uk The Bell The Sunday lunch sharing platters let you serve yourself.
In the officer's mess, men in their dress whites served themselves an early lunch from platters piled high with baloney and egg-salad sandwiches; for dessert, there were cheerful little scones, halved and topped with jam and whipped cream.
(In the smaller lunch version, piglet platter, the beef was dried out and the grits were cheeseless, however).
Surrounded by tree-topped hills, it's blessed with a mesoclimate ideal for producing its award-winning wines, an ideal accompaniment for vineyard's cheese platter lunch featuring only Welsh cheeses.
Hickory will need to channel her inner celebrity to survive a news media gantlet Wednesday — her scheduled appearances begin at 6 30 a.m. and include the "Today" show, Martha Stewart's show, Fox News and a "steak on a platter" lunch at Sardi's.
If you happen to visit on a weekday lunch, the £5.80 platter, two dishes and injera (a kind of pancake whose pleasing lemony sourness creeps up and clobbers you in the mouth), is a good way to dip your toe in.
