Sticky Toffee Pudding.

Written on Friday, November 23, 2007

I went on a date today with Adrienne, Joelle, and Brittany Drury to try sticky toffee pudding. Joelle had found out that they served it at the restaurant in the Holiday Inn just down the road and where we can use the gym for this week! Now this is no ordinary Holiday Inn; it is actually called Royal Victoria Holiday Inn and is in this super nice historic looking building. It is so classy looking and like no other Holiday Inn I’ve ever seen. Brittany had been talking about trying this English dessert forever now and I figured I should give it a try to before I left the UK.

So we get there and the restaurant is empty. We got the menu and turns out it cost 7 pounds! EEK I was expecting 4 or 5 but I was still going to get it anyways and just have dessert. Joelle wanted savory food as well so she inquired about this buffet that was set up and how much a slice of quiche would be. The waitress replied telling her she could just have a piece. Turns out it was food for a conference they were just going to get rid of so she said we could help ourselves! This made the price seem way much better! There were dessert at the buffet and I have no idea why but I ate other dessert on top of my sticky toffee pudding. I have quite the sweet tooth but in the instant I had an overdose of sugar. There are not many times when I feel that way so this was pretty hardcore. I think there is something about the toffee/caramel taste that can be sickeningly sweet if you have too much. Anyways, the pudding was really good! The name made me skeptical but it really isn’t a pudding. It was a cake that was covered in this toffee flavored sauce. It was not actually sticky more oozey. I would definitely recommend people who visit England to try some!