I was surprised how busy, I expected to find empty.
Albondigas with a glass of red wine.
Posts Tagged ‘The Lawn’
Olé Olé albondigas and red wine
December 14, 2022Olé Olé lunch
August 29, 2022Very busy, no outside seating today.
Too hot to sit inside, too cold to sit outside.
Fillet solomillo al Cabrales con patatas. Excellente.
Cappuccino Stokes at The lawn
March 3, 2020Usually I take coffee in for Mike to try, but today raining, I let Mike select a coffee.
Try this Colombian.
Aroma was that of chocolate, milk chocolate, Cadbury’s Dairy Milk.
OK I know it is not chocolate, fat and sugar. Read the label if do not believe me. Cadbury’s do not claim it to be chocolate.
A moot point Stokes at The Lawn. Please stock quality bean-to-bar chocolate.
Bullion and Luisa’s would be good starting point, maybe add Bare Bones.
I digress.
Mike brewed a cappuccino.
Fruity, very different to the aroma.
And not usual for a cappuccino, improved as it cooled, more akin to behaviour of a V60.
The roast less a light roast, though was a light roast, but instead of lowering roast temperature reduced the length of roast.
Tanzanian Arusha Natural
September 5, 2019Three bags of coffee, Brazilian, Indian and Tanzanian from DT Coffee Roastery.
I have tried before an Ethiopian from DT Coffee Roastery, brewed as a V60 at Blackbird. It was good, but a disappointment compared with a Colombian from Coffee Gems we tried the week before which was excellent.
Of the three, which to choose? The aroma was excellent. Not my choice, that of Mike head barista at Stokes at The Lawn.
No contest, he chose the Tanzanian.
I would have brewed as V60, thus surprised when he chose espresso.
Espresso for Mike, cappuccino for me.
I was pleasantly surprised, it made an excellent cappuccino, interesting flavour profile.
Arusha Natural Burka State Tanzania, var Kent, N39, Blue Mountain, alt 1350m, tasting notes stone fruit, red berries, bright citrus, roasted by either UK latte art champion Dhan Tamang or head of coffee Don Altizo.
Asobu Stokes at The Lawn
April 16, 2019An unusual coffee brewer, a mix of pour over immersion, also functions for immersion cold brew.
Unlike V60, no skill required, grind the coffee, pour in hot water, top up as necessary, leave for a couple of minutes, press red button to release the brew into the lower chamber.
The brewed coffee will be slightly cloudy due to a fine metal mesh filter not a paper filter.
A minimum volume of water due to part filter part immersion.
The resultant brew using a Rwandan coffee was good.
For the coffee shop, if no batch brew, an easy way to make a few cups of filter coffee.
For the home brewer, why waste money on a Nespresso? Set up your Asobu, whilst brewing, pour out the cereals, then coffee is ready. Not only that, the lower chamber has a screw on lid, take with you on your outing. Though if on way to work, maybe better to pour into s reusable cup, which can then used later in s coffee shop.
Ideally, a V60 at home, but Asobu a good start.
Many thanks to Mike, barista at Stokes st The Lawn for the demonstration.
Cappuccino in Stokes Lawn Café
September 6, 2017A cappuccino in Stokes Lawn Café. Their Guatemalan is barely drinkable, the house blend undrinkable.
The house blend, previously labelled espresso, has now been renamed as Jumping Beans.
I learnt why so bad, it was as I suspected, includes Robusta and is over roasted.
Coffee is now on sale at The Lawn.
Something I noticed, which I had not noticed before, Blue Mountain Jamaican Coffee is shipped in wooden barrels not hessian sacks.
Cappuccino at Stokes Lawn Café
August 31, 2017Cappuccino in Stokes Lawn Café.
I again chose their Guatemalan blend. It was far superior to the undrinkable cappuccino from their house blend served at Stokes on High Bridge yesterday.
I was pleased they have followed my suggestion, now a menu with some information on the coffees they serve, but what they need is a lot more information on each coffee.
Part of the decor, maybe not intentional, is steampunk themed, for example the lamps and the metal piping for the shelves.
In a way as the steam punk festival had it origins at The Lawn a pity not more of a steampunk theme.
The exhibition in Lincoln Castle for The Imaginarium, the display had similar in copper piping.
I learnt they have a small theatre, the Blue Room, which is being used for external events. The lamps came from the theatre.
Cappuccino in Makushi
April 6, 2017A pleasant sunny morning.
A walk to the top of Steep Hill, then how to get to The Lawn?
I asked at Lincoln Castle. Walk straight through and out the other gate, the helpful guide explained. But I do not have a ticket. You do not need a ticket, it is free.
This surprised me that it was free. Apparently Lincoln Castle has been free since 2014, though there is a fee to access parts of Lincoln Castle.
The Lawn has been purchased by Stokes for the princely sum of £250,000. It looks derelict and unlikely to be open any time soon. When open it will house a coffee shop, a roastery, a tea and coffee museum, and provide coffee training.
Outside Lincoln Castle, a guy playing classical guitar.
On my way back down, cappuccino in Makushi.
I had hoped for their new beans from Brazil, but no, maybe by Friday.
Bottom of The Strait, a new coffee shop is due to open Good Friday.
Top of the High Street, just through The Stonebow, Bartek Dabrowski playing acoustic guitar. He ws quite good.
Not for Sale! Hands off our Lawn!
December 28, 2011
Not for Sale! Hands off our Lawn!
Set in 8 acres, The Lawn, a former mental hospital, is a museum complex located opposite the recently opened West Gate of Lincoln Castle. The key feature of The Lawn is the Sir Joseph Banks Tropical Conservatory.
Sir Joseph Banks (1743-1820) was a naturalist, explorer, plant collector and unofficial first director of Kew Gardens in London. Banks sailed with James Cook on the Endeavour. He was elected President of the Royal Society and remained President until his death.
Sir Joseph Banks brought back many specimens from his travels. He helped to establish the Botanic Gardens at Kew, near London, not only as a repository of thousands of living specimens from all over the world, but as a centre for the introduction of plants to new regions, including breadfruit and tea. His herbarium and library in London became a centre of taxonomic research, freely available to scholars from all over the world, and after his death it became part of the British Museum. Banks farmed in Lincolnshire and his house was at Revesby.
A portrait of Sir Joseph Banks hangs in the Usher Art Gallery in Lincoln. It originally belonged to the late Australian billionaire Kerry Packer (died December 2005), but he was persuaded to sell by the good folk of Lincolnshire.
Also at The Lawn is the John Dawber Garden.
From The Lawn a panoramic view opens up of Lincoln and the surrounding countryside.
The Lawn is for sale. The first local people and visitors learnt of this was when a small notice was placed in the Lincolnshire Echo.
Opponents of the sale have complained at the lack of proper consultation. It is not lack of, there has been no consultation. A small notice in the local paper is not consultation, it is notification, and minimal notification at that. Even those with businesses at The Lawn were not consulted.
Not a single person responded to the so-called consultation. I wonder why?
This is not an asset for the City Council to sell. It belongs to the people. The Council merely holds it in trust on behalf of the people.
By putting The Lawn up for sale, by not engaging in consultation, the City Council is showing arrogant contempt for the people of Lincoln.
What we are seeing is Shock Doctrine. Budgets cuts being used as an excuse to ram through an ideological driven agenda to sell off all public services and assets, privatisation.
What next, Lincoln Castle, South Common or West Common, Boutham Park, Arboretum?
If there are to be cuts than let’s start with executive salaries which more than doubled under neo-Labour. Let’s cut the gravy train of Councillor’s expenses.
A committee has been formed to consider the sale of The Lawn. This should be seen for what it is, greenwash, a fig leaf to cover a rubber-stamping exercise. The self-same people who put The Lawn up for sale, who tried to slip the sale past the public are now to consider the sale. They have already shown themselves incapable of managing and safeguarding an historic city. All that matters is enabling a fast buck to be made. With property prices falling it is not even a sensible time to sell. It is the public who should decide, it is their asset.
The City Planners are either brain-dead and lacking in vision, or worse still corrupt and in the pocket of developers and Big Business.
Look around Lincoln and see the eyesores that have been thrown up in the last decade or so. Unsightly tower blocks that blot out the historic skyline. In the town centre, an eyesore on the side of the river, sandwiched between historic buildings. Brayford Pool, an historic basin, in the 1960s it still had its warehouses. These could have been restored, but no, demolished and eyesores erected, each competing with the other for the prize of ugliest building. A vital Tourist Information Centre in the City centre closed, and that uphill closed during holidays with visitors wandering around looking lost.
Running and maintaining The Lawn costs council taxpayers £47,000 a year. This is less than the cost of one worthless senior jobsworth.
It is because of decisions like this that occupation camps such as St Paul’s in-the-Camp have spread across the country, an estimated 60 camps.
The Lawn would be the ideal location for Occupy Lincoln.
The John Dawber Garden could be used as a community garden, heritage varieties grown, fruit and vegetables for sale, seed swaps in the spring.
If The Lawn is failing, it is because of the Council, the same Council that now wants to sell The Lawn against strong local opposition.
The Leader of the Council claims to be acting for the people of Lincoln. His idea of a sick joke? If he were acting in the interests of the people of Lincoln, the sale would not be on the agenda. Instead he would be looking at how best to make use of The Lawn to the benefit of the people of Lincoln.
The Lawn used to be a pioneering mental hospital of world repute. It would appear the lunatics have taken over the asylum.
Hands off our Lawn has formed to oppose the sale. If you see them in the High Street, then please stop and have a chat and sign the petition. or if you do not see them, please sign their on-line petition.
Top story Occupy Global and Local LSE (Thursday 29 December 2011).
– Comment: The case against selling The Lawn
– ‘Declining’ Lawn to be sold off
– Lincoln landmark The Lawn put up for sale by City Hall
– 1,200 people sign petition to stop The Lawn in Lincoln being sold
– Why the people of Lincoln must maintain a stake in The Lawn
– No proper consultation on sell-off of The Lawn in Lincoln, say angry opponents
– Time Is Running Out for The Lawn
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