Good food, good wine

I know the wine in one is good but I don't know about the food. In the other the food is good but I don't know about the wine.

Montrose has just opened a leisurely walk from where I live in Tunbridge Wells and I know the wine has been carefully thought out not just because they say so but because I've been shown around the cellar. It's a wonderful collection in the corner of the restaurant behind glass and is a nice feature. I'll let you know what the food is like when I've tasted it but, in the meantime, the wines range from a 1999 premier cru St Aubin at £18 as the house white through an extensive range of burgundies to a 2004 Bourgogne Rouge at £22.00 as the house red and then an even more extensive range of Bordeaux and Burgundies. It's an interesting concept to restrict the wines principally to Bordeaux and Burgundy and I wish them every success.

I know the food is good in Canteen in Spitalfields Market because I had a late Saturday lunch there with my family. No wine as we were helping our son move home so no chance to sample from the list. There was a sligtly strange experience however when I asked for a cider and, as so often happens unfortunately nowadays, the glass was brought to the table full of ice. Call me a traditionalist but, just because Magners have made a great play of drinking cider over ice, it doesn't mean the rest of us have to drink every other cider with ice. I dispensed with the ice only to find out they don't keep the bottles in the fridge. Mama mia! Whatever next - ice with the white wine so they don't have to keep the bottles chilled?