article_snippet.sent: What on earth makes us think the French do off-beat restaurants with rooms better than us?
article_snippet.sent: Seafood dining: Mersea oysters are available year-round - as are Colchester natives, when in season .
article_snippet.sent: : The Sunday lunch menu features roast Red Poll beef and local Sutton Hoo chicken .
article_snippet.sent: It is a Sunday evening, and plenty are in for dinner - unless they are still here from lunch.
article_snippet.sent: We kick off with nibbles that include a stupendous olive tapenade.
article_snippet.sent: six Mersea Island oysters followed by superb sea bass, while my wife raves about my wife chowder, followed by moules with chips.