A delightful week of eating well and drinking!
On Monday, I booked a table for seven of us to have dinner at Tayyabs. This is a delicious BYOB restaurant near Brick Lane but with much better food – and admittedly worse service!
http://www.tripadvisor.co.uk/Restaurant_Review-g186338-d779012-Reviews-Tayyabs-London_England.html
I remember first going to Tayyabs probably about ten years ago, when my sister took me there with some of her friends. It was much, much smaller then. Since then, it has at least quadrupled in size and to be honest, it’s probably a little overrated. The food is always good (especially the lamb chop starters) but I’m pretty sure the service is some of the worst in town.
This time we had been waiting for over 30 minutes before the waiter even came to take our order. He forgot to take the order from one person before he left and it was near impossible to get anyone’s attention. It took a further 40 minutes before our food arrived. On the plus side, the food was good! Despite knowing the service here is generally awful, I’m still happy to go back – not too often. The food is reliably good.
On Thursday I went to a little Thai restaurant near Kings Cross called Paolina. It is a family run small cafe with what I imagine is authentic food (I haven’t been to Thailand yet). It’s very reasonably priced and BYOB. The fish cake starters were really good and my thai green curry was tasty. I’d be happy to go back some time, but it wasn’t especially outstanding. It’s definitely good if you like cosy cafe style restaurants.
And to finish the work week – drinks near the office. A friend suggested the Whistling Shop. I hadn’t heard of it before and as a fan of cocktails I was looking forward to checking it out. It’s a speak easy style bar with lots of original drinks. It has a relaxed atmosphere and I was surprised I didn’t about this place given it is next door to the Blueberry bar where I have been for drinks a number of times. A big thumbs up.
This was followed by dinner at Meat Liquor near Bond Street. I really like this chain – great trendy atmosphere, service and food.
We started with a delightful drink called ‘pickleback’ that consists of a shot of bourbon and a shot of pickle juice. What’s not to like!? For my meal, I had the bingo wings, chilli fries and the red chilli burger. All delish. Followed by a hard ‘white russian shake’ with Kahlua and vodka. SOOOOOOO good.
TWO SHOES TRAVEL 