My First Time At Cosmo Norwich!

So I had heard nothing but good things about this restaurant and it was on my list of places to go! With it being Bobby's sister's birthday we all went out for a meal to celebrate. I always thought it was a small restaurant with a couple of tables but I was completely amazed when I walked in. You get greeted at a desk and asked for your reservation, then go up some escalators and get greeted again before being taken to your table. I decided to get refillable drinks, meaning I could have as many soft drinks as I wanted. My drink of choice for the evening was fizzy Vimto!

Now I just want to say if you're looking for a really fancy food review you're about to be shocked. I was amazed by all of the food that you could choose from, there was Chinese, Mexican, sushi, various desserts that looked delicious, hot wings,roast dinners, dumplings, pizza and so much more! I am quite the fussy eater, I don't like trying new things and my taste in food is pretty simple. 

I managed to snap a few pictures before everyone got in and ruined all the nice displays so I'll pop them in while I have the chance!

Because of who I am as a person most of the pictures I took were of the desserts because damn they looked good! 

So being in an all you can eat restaurant overwhelmed me for a while and I just couldn't pick what I wanted. As I mentioned before I'm a very fussy person and even the slightest of change to food I like will put me off it. 

For my first plate of food I wanted to go with something simple that I know I would like. 

That meant chicken nuggets and chips with a Yorkshire pudding, mash and gravy. I told you no professional reviews here I mean what can I really say about this meal? The chips were actually really good, nice and chunky, reminded me of the chips I get from the local Chinese. The mash was really smooth but was seasoned with pepper (which I despise) so I didn't manage to finish that. By the time I got round to eating my chicken nuggets they were a bit cold but still really good.

For my second plate I got a little more adventurous and headed to the Chinese buffet section. They had no plain rice or plain noodles so I had to salvage what I could. In the end I managed to get some plain rice (I scooped up as much with no egg in as I could), some plain noodles (same again avoiding the beansprouts and veg) and a couple of prawn crackers. I would've gotten so many more crackers than I did but there weren't many left when I went up to get some and I didn't want to take too many.

The rice was lovely and fluffy, no egg so I fully enjoyed it. The noodles were in a sauce I hadn't tried before so it took some time to get used to but in the end I didn't eat all of them. Crackers are crackers so I don't think i really need to talk about them. 

By this point I was ready to head home, feeling super full and tired I had completely forgotten about all the yummy desserts!! I don't really like a lot of chocolate or cakes so I took a small range of everything really! I also found the ice cream machine where you could do it yourself and put as much on your cone as you wanted. 

This is what I ended up getting. A peanut butter cup, a chocolate and raspberry swiss roll, a chocolate mousse shot, jelly cubes, the ice cream that I did myself and some toffee dessert (I can't quite remember what that was). I later found out that there were bowls for the ice cream, along with other flavours like chocolate and mint. I pretty much had fancy jelly and ice cream for dessert and it was glorious!

Cosmo is probably now my favourite restaurant and I definitely will be going back again. It was just such a great experience for me and I loved every aspect of the serving yourself buffets. Next time I go I aim to try a few more things because there were dishes that looked and smelt amazing I was just too scared to try them on my first time there. Now I know what to expect I can see this being the place I go to whenever I have something to celebrate!

So that's all I can say about my first time there really! Everything was just so great! Bobby's sister really enjoyed her birthday and it was a really nice night out!

I hope you enjoyed reading this, if you did I'll do some more posts on what I get up to :)

- athriftymaria x

Hello!

Hello, and welcome to my blog!

Many of my upcoming posts will follow the theme of being 'cheap' or me sourcing some super awesome bargains. I love to share when I'm able to get my hands on a great deal, whether that's a lovely vintage dress from a charity shop, or a clearance in the makeup isles you can bet I'm always searching for the next great buy!

While I have the chance I just want to introduce myself, so here's 20 facts about me!

1. I am 18 years old
2. I have a YouTube channel which I am very proud of
3. Most of the makeup in my collection isn't used
4. I have 4 cats and one dog
5. I am really into gaming, I play on Xbox One and soon to be playing on PC
6. I have a clothing rail filled with clothes I don't wear
7. My sister is a younger, more annoying version of me and appears occasionally on my social media
8. I live in the most eastern town in the UK
9. I have 4 piercings (it used to be 5 but I took my lip piercing out)
10. I am very cheap, the least I spend the better
11. Most of my makeup/beauty items have been brought discounted, been given to me for free or have been traded for other things
12. I am terrible at saving so I'm basically broke all of the time
13. I work in a little shop, part time
14. Although I have the biggest bedroom I still don't have enough space in here for all of my junk
15. I have to declutter regularly if not I would be dubbed a hoarder
16. I get called a 'fake gamer girl' because I don't have time to play online as often as I used to and that sucks
17. Despite having a fairly good fashion sense I always look like I stumbled out of a trash bag
18. I have a boyfriend who I've been with for two years now, he's a big part of my life! He helps out with editing for my YouTube videos all of the time, so supportive
19. Charity shops end up taking most of my money as I can get some quality items for a fraction of retail price
20. Poundland is probably my second home, please don't judge it's just fabulous

So I know those facts were probably rather boring but I'm not used to this form of expressing myself, usually I speaking to a camera alone in my room, now I'm typing on the bus trying to think of what to write.

I wanted to keep this short and sweet and let you find out the rest yourself, thanks for stopping by and I hope you visit again :)

- athriftymaria x