Weekend Weekend [part 2]

After a slow start to the day due to that last glass of Sherry (and the rest of the wine too), we ambled towards Tottenham Court Road. The plan was to make our way down through Covent Garden. We were foiled at our first stop. Twice. First, the friends we were supposed to be meeting…

Ankh More Port

I visited a Portuguese restaurant a couple of weeks ago. Yes. Another one. Turns out lots of seafood, fatty pork and good wine works for me. Who knew? Bar Douro is in one of the arches in Flat Iron Square. Flat Iron Square is a sort of purpose built casual restaurant/street food/pop-up area. It’s down…

Bit of a nata

I have a long history of accidentally buying things while drunk. I’ll often get home from pub/bar/restaurant and buy things on ebay. This has ranged from the mundane such as clothes to the ridiculous, such as a pizza oven and a vintage Alfa Romeo. The pizza oven did turn out to be one of the…

Matching!

I went out for dinner last night as a birthday (and it turns out, promotion) celebration. It was at the properly swanky – 26th in the world – Clove Club in Shoreditch town hall. Whilst sipping on some Welsh Sparkling Rose (because National pride is occasionally a thing, even in these bleak times), I decided…