Valentine’s Day menu at La Pecherie Seafood Restaurant in Ayr

A special Valentine’s Day dinner menu has been prepared for guests celebrating at La Pecherie Seafood Restaurant & Steak Grill in Ayr, Scotland this year.

Proprietor Mrs Meiqin McColm and head chef Danny Harvey have called upon their considerable combined culinary skills to prepare a feast of dishes for all lovers of good food.

Daily Record restaurant critic and BBC TV presenter Tam Cowan recently visited La Pecherie in the company of Scots singing star Sydney Devine, and pronounced himself well satisfied with his meal.

Tam wrote in his review: "La Pecherie is a lovely little cellar restaurant located in Ayr Town Centre.

"La Pecherie offers terrific value for money, and customers can enjoy a two-course lunch for £7.95 or three courses for £9.95.

"Alternatively, what about one of the daily specials (seafood lasagne, steak pie, fish and chips, etc) served with tea or coffee for just £4.95?

"The drinks are also reasonably priced.

"The food was very good too.

"Carrot and orange broth sounds like an accident waiting to happen, but in fact it was quite delicious. The sea bass also delighted my dining companion, and he finished off a fab meal with a generous slab of homemade sticky toffee pudding.

"From the a la carte menu (also sensibly priced), I really enjoyed the hot chicken and bacon salad and, even though the Oriental-style sauce was too sweet for my liking, I still raved about the tuna steak.

"Ice cream seemed a sensible choice in the seaside town of Ayr, and the mixed selection of flavours didn’t disappoint.

"Overall verdict? Good food and friendly service."

ABOUT MEIQIN McCOLM, PROPRIETOR OF LA PECHERIE

It’s a long and somewhat unusual journey to make, from working with an import-export company in Southern China to running your own restaurant in Ayr town centre.

But that’s how the CV of Meiqin McColm reads, and it also includes a spell working in New Zealand.

But now she is the proud owner of La Pecherie Seafood Restaurant and Grill in Ayr’s Cathcart Street, off the Sandgate.

Meiqin was born in Shanghai in 1959. Her career started when she went to New Zealand to assist and advise companies there about importing goods from China.

She returned to China to set up her own business facilitating international joint ventures between Chinese companies and partners from overseas.

Meiquin came to live in Ayr in 1998, where her next venture was to set up a clinic in Racecourse Road offering alternative medicine including Chinese acupuncture.

But, always keen to take on a new challenge, Meiqin realised that most of her friends were involved in some way or other in the food industry, and as she had always enjoyed meeting new people, she decided to open her own restaurant.

She wanted something that little bit different, so, as seafood eateries in Ayr were scarce, she took over the existing business of Peter’s Restaurant in Cathcart Street, already well-known for its speciality fish dishes.

Meiqin changed the name to La Pecherie Seafood Restaurant and Steak Grill to reflect these specialities, but also to emphasise that the new establishment could cater equally well for diners who prefer meat to fish.

She aims to keep her prices affordable, and offers a business lunch from £7.95, and a pre-theatre dinner from £8.95, as well as a full a-la-carte menu.

Meiqin’s immediate ambition is to establish a reputation for consistency of standards in both food and service, so that the rosettes and awards that really put a restaurant on the map will inevitably follow.

La Pecherie Seafood Restaurant and Steak Grill
16 Cathcart Street
Ayr, Ayrshire
Scotland KA7 1BJ

Tel: 01292 290500
E-mail: info@la-pecherie.co.uk
Website: www.ayrshirebusinessnews.com/productssimple8.html

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