My whole birthday revolved around eating, drinking and seeing everyone I pretty much know in London, it was brilliant! Here are some of the highlights...
Thursday 28th April - My 28th Birthday
Loads of us popped to the local pub near work for lunch to raise a glass or two. The Three Kings is a quirky London boozer that serves great line your stomach/hangover food (it deserves a whole post to itself at some point just for the eclectic interior). I went for my usual Chilli bowl with rice with sour cream and extra cheese.
Friday 29th April - The Royal Wedding
We stayed in bed eating scrambled egg on toast to watch the royal wedding on TV, no champagne for us as we had a three course dinner planned for the aftermath of the wedding near St James Park. Mat's mom treated us to a gin cocktail and three course dinner at Tiger Green Brasserie in the Hilton, they were not stingy with the gin in the seasonal berry martini, but the sugar around the rim took the edge off!
It was a typical nice hotel restaurant, lots of cream and grey for the decor and the menu listing various dishes from around the world, but the food was well above the average due to the quality of the ingredients - very tender asparagus in my starter and the steak cooked to perfection. The highlight was the dessert, creme brulee with fresh raspberries and celeb spotting Phillip Schofield in the bar knocking back JD and coke after a hard day presenting the Royal Wedding coverage for ITV.
Saturday 30th April - Dinner with housemates
The housemates have been dying to try the poshest restaurant in Greenwich for years and we finally did for another birthday dinner. They treated me to pink champagne and cake (which we scoffed once we got in later) before we ventured out for a early dinner to The Spread Eagle. We went for the set menu which is very reasonable at £20 for three courses and some lovely wine choices from by Zoe's boyfriend Mikee. The interior is very old school, lots of oil paintings of Greenwich but is given a modern twist with bright splashes of colour and pattern on the chairs, unfortunately the service is old school too with the waiters being very snooty when we arrived, they did warm up as the evening went on and as the food was so yummy we decided we would always give the place another try.
I went for butternut squash velote with a fine cheese crouton, it was very creamy and the cheese perfectly ripe. I then followed with pan fried sea-bream, potato puree and saffron sauce but was very jealous of Mat's ox cheek linguine.
Sunday 1st May - BBQ
After all the posh dinners, a BBQ was in order to enjoy the sunshine and the company of some more friends. It was the usual sausages, burgers, marinated chicken in Reggae Reggae Sauce and potato salad washed down with lots of Pimms. One (or should that be two) highlights were the cakes made by two baking loving friends. The first a classic victoria with sickly sweet icing (my favourite kind) and the second a massive lemon cake party ring.
We then all headed to the pub when the sun went in for another jug (or four) of Pimms, a great end to a foody filled weekend!
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