I've just come back from a week in London. It was great to see friends, exhibitions, eat some very good food... but not so great to be traipsing around in the pretty constant rain dragging about an umbrella constantly. It was a very wet start to the summer indeed!
Highlights this visit were
+ lunch at the Rochelle Canteen. Yes it's only open during lunch and only during the week at that. Yes it's a bit out of the way. But it is so worth it. Succulent scallops and samphire were followed by the most perfectly seasoned roast quail. The food is seasonal (the menu changes every day) and simply perfect. Just remember to book as it gets busy and take a bottle of wine as it's unlicensed. We picked up an excellent bottle of british wine at the Albion close by.
+ The Selfridges sales: 50% off my favourite comfortable clothes by James Perse need I say more?
+ Arte Povere at Haunch of Venison. I loved the Guiseppe Penone works, they are so textural.
+ lunch at Polpo where we enjoyed polpette, grilled polenta, anchovy and chickpea crostini, and pork panino
+ dinner with the girls at The Dock Kitchen. I enjoyed the summer menu with fresh garden peas, roast beef and gooseberry fool but I did find the food a bit expensive.
+ BP Portrait award
+ taking the Thames Clipper to Greenwhich and enjoying the dramatic skies across london
+ The Royal Academy Summer Show, (which has a tiny anish kapoor on show), Louise Bourgeois at Hauser & Wirth, and a small but interesting polaroid exhibition we stumbled upon when sheltering from the rain after a visit to the Dover Street Market and finally an excellent Indian in the most unlikely of locations, Vijays
PS see that warehouse building marked "New Crane Wharf" that we passed on our trip along the Thames? That's where we lived for a while when we first moved to London. We were up on the third floor in the corner. The Cruise ships coming to London would turn just about level with our apartment as the Thames isnt deep enough for them to get all the way to Tower Bridge. We would see people standing on the ship's balconies with cocktails and wave to each other!
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