Prompted by his son, Chris’s fond memories of the Berni Inn and his first forays in to ‘fane dining’ come flooding back
MY 27 year-old-son recently asked me a question I found quite difficult to answer. “Dad”, he said, “what’s a Berni Inn?”
My response seemed to need framing almost as carefully as when, many years before, I’d been required to explain to him where babies came from.
When I stopped to think - about the Berni Inn, not the babies - I was able to summarise. It was, of course, a 1960s and 70s restaurant chain which served a popular but limited menu: by legend prawn cocktail, steak and chips and black forest gateau, often washed down with sweet German wine. It was probably the first dining out experience for many baby boomers.
This story is from the March 2018 edition of Hampshire Life.
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