Being a lover of all things local, i've wanted to incorporate more local places to where I live for such a long time and i've recently had some lovely local opportunities pop up. If you follow my Instagram, you'll of seen on my story a couple of weeks back that I headed down to my local Vintage Inn's pub and I thought i'd share my thoughts on the evening.

The Nightingale is a pub I drive past on a daily basis to and from work and is local to the Spetchley area of Worcester (if you're familiar to the area), and recently I'd noticed they were having some refurb work done so I was excited to see what they'd done to update the premises. On entering we were greeted with a cute nook area tucked away by the bar and a cosy wood burning fire, which just warmed up the room and set a lovely countryside atmosphere. 

MAIN COURSE

For main we both chose to have a red meat dish, with Fran opting for the 8oz Sirloin Steak with a Peppercorn Sauce and again, Fran said it was one of the best sirloin steaks she's had in a long while. I opted for the Aberdeen Angus Burger as I love a good burger and this one did not disappoint. For a pub burger it was really tasty, and the chips were absolutely delicious but I wasn't a massive fan of the bacon chutney but i've never been a chutney kinda gal!

DESSERT

By the time dessert came round we were both absolutely stuffed, but we wanted to try out as much of the menu as we could and as we couldn't choose what puddings to have we opted for the Hot Drink & Mini Pudding option so we could share the pudding without absolutely pigging out. We chose to have a Hot Chocolate and to try the Bourbon Pecan Pie and the Belgian Chocolate Brownie of which were both delicious and were just enough to finish off a lovely dinner!

This week has been a pretty good week, although it's been a bit draining and my gym routine has fallen off the wagon, it's been decent. As you can see i'm continuing on from last Sunday's Summary as i'm sharing some more yummy food with you guys!

With payday rolling in last Friday and the work girls wanting a night out away from the stress at work, we decided some good food, soon followed by some yummy cocktails was the way to go. Also in the midst of planning this little night out, Jen found out that she had gotten the job she had interviewed for the week earlier, to work in the events department of where we currently work, which made Friday the perfect time to celebrate.

Putting the stressful and tiring day at work behind us, we got ourselves dressed up and headed down to a lovely little Italian restaurant called Valentino's. I'd personally never been before, but with Italian food being my favourite, I was keen to try out the menu and i'd heard some great things about their bruschetta starters, which was delicious and their calzone pizzas are unreal - I was stuffed and ready to burst.

We ended the night in a bar, sipping on cocktails and watching all the middle aged let loose and bust some rather embarrassing moves, after all it was a Friday night and you can't say no the Macarena!

Other than that, i've been preparing for my job interview which is nearing in and i'm actually quite excited and optimistic, but i'm not going to get my hopes up too much. I also hit 2,300 Bloglovin' and 700 Instagram followers this week, so a big thank you to every one of you who is following - it means so much!

Hope you're all well! What have you been up to this week?

Todays Sunday Summary is going to a lot more positive than last weeks, as this week has been one hundred times better and I couldn't be happier. I also mentioned that I wanted to start introducing more lifestyle through my Sunday posts, so i'm going to be sharing about an amazing eatery in my local town that just opened up today, and it's amazing!

As it was my Mum's birthday this Monday just gone, my family, boyfriend and myself all went out for a lovely little meal at Bodega Cantina, which is a lovely little South American kitchen that specialises in the tastiest of foods and the most delicious cocktails. I've previously visited Bodega in Birmingham, which I loved so when they opened up one in my local town, I just knew I had to try it out.

We started off with drinks, most of my family went for diet coke's and pepsi's, but I tried out the Non Alcoholic Passionfruit Twist Cocktail, so good and so tasty! We then all opted for the starter of House Nachos with Chilli and they were so yummy, the tortillas were huge and the guacamole still had chunks of avocado in it - they were divine and so filling! We all went for the Bodega Burritos, a few of my family had the pulled chicken but I opted for the pulled pork. All of the burritos are available in different spice levels, but I stuck with the mild (wimp!). The burritos were huge and the sweet potato fries that accompanied them were so tasty, I could have just eaten a plate of them on their own! As it was my Mums birthday, she got a free drink which was a lovely gesture and it's safe to say we left their sufficiently full and gleaming after a lovely service.

If you live in the West Midlands area, make sure you give Bodega a visit if you're a lover of Southern American food, yummy cocktails and good company!

Onto the good news, this week whilst trolling through my day at work I received a very exciting phone call about a job opportunity - I don't want to jinx anything, but cross your fingers for me!

P.S - My new blog layout went live yesterday, what do you think of it? - Few tweaks to be done, but i'm so happy with it! Big thanks to Charlee from CharmedCharlee for being so patient with me!

How has your week been?