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[Closed] Swindonites - good places for dinner?

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American friend is staying at the Marriott next week and has asked for nearby eating recommendations. My suggestions (all a bit away from the town) have fallen on deaf ears, so any thoughts from the HiveMind?

Doesn't have to be anything cheap, just good quality food and service. Chinese? Italian? British? Pretty open to suggestions.

TIA.


 
Posted : 18/03/2018 10:41 pm
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Helen Brownings on Wood Street for meatfest

Moshan Island Grill on Devises Road for some curried goat

Both walking distance from Marriot


 
Posted : 18/03/2018 11:39 pm
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Picnic in the woods?


 
Posted : 18/03/2018 11:49 pm
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The Swindon branch of Chennai Dosa is, or was, good a couple of years ago. Waaaay better than the shithole branch in Reading.


 
Posted : 19/03/2018 8:51 am
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Does he work for IBM? My time at Nationwide was spent with a lot of IBM'rs who lived most of  their lives in the Marriott.

Some favourite haunts of theirs:

Biplob, Wood Street

Old Town Thai, Wood Street

Los Gatos, Devizes Road

Pappadams, near Chennai Dosa at the bottom of the hill on Victoria Street (doesn't look much from the outside, but the Indian folks really rated it)

Fratello's used to be decent (near Pappadams/Chennai Dosa).


 
Posted : 19/03/2018 10:08 am
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You can get a good curry at the biplob on Wood St 🍲 nom nom..........


 
Posted : 19/03/2018 10:48 am
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Curry in the Biplob, then a few pints in the Roaring Donkey


 
Posted : 19/03/2018 11:00 am
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Thanks, all. Will pass these on to her.


 
Posted : 19/03/2018 12:51 pm
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Los Gatos in Devizes road for damn good tapas


 
Posted : 19/03/2018 2:55 pm
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It's Swindon,

So McD's, KFC or Bk??? Pick one.


 
Posted : 19/03/2018 3:21 pm
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It’s Swindon,

So McD’s, KFC or Bk??? Pick one

Massive comedy fail as none of those anywhere near Old Town/The Marriott.


 
Posted : 19/03/2018 3:56 pm
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It’s no coincidence that all of the decent eateries are up in Old Town, the only part of Swindon worth visiting.


 
Posted : 19/03/2018 10:06 pm
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Massive comedy fail as none of those anywhere near Old Town/The Marriott

Fine - Dominoes it is then..


 
Posted : 19/03/2018 10:11 pm