Nick, I've spent a lot of time in London, Southhampton, and Scotland. I've yet to find an English chain restaurant notable for anything. There's one chain that offers Scotish beef, forget the name but they're all over London, that is half-decent. I also had great meals in old hotel dining rooms in York, Inverness, and Edinburgh. But once you go outside of the small, quaint places it's not good.

>American restaurants ?
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>Maybe I'll stay on earth after all. :-)
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>>Dude.
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>>That's pathetic. Dick Rutan's private Spaceship One goes 5 times that high. We had balloons going to those heights 60 years ago but we didn't attach freeze-dried teddy bears to them.
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>>When will Britain/ESA grow a real space program? By the time Europe gets to the moon they'll land at a Chinese terminal with American restaurants, Russian taxis, and Indian hotels.
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