Work Hard, Eat Well

I have been working hard since returning after the Christmas break and been on a photo shoot for over a week, so been cooped up in a studio (luckily with some lovely people) over the weekend too! The last day of the shoot fell on a Sunday and as we had not ventured outside decided to go out for a Sunday lunch at the local pub... and then again to celebrate the end of this epic shoot with cocktails and a meal in the evening!

For lunch we headed to the Colonel Fawcett in Camden, a pub typical of the area - nicely decorated but quite quirky, strewn with retro board games and fairy lights, and served great guest ales on tap. There was four options for the roast and most of us went for the roast leg of lamb which was cooked rare and melted in the mouth. It was served with garlic and rosemary stuffing which tasted homemade, crispy roast potatoes, carrot and swede mash, cider braised red cabbage, curly kale and gravy - sometimes in pubs all the extra words in the description makes me think they are a being a bit ponchy but the flavours in all the elements really came through and made for a bloomin' good meal! Just what we needed to go finish the last few shots of the day.

We also went for some very tasty cheese to share too.

In the evening we headed to Gilgamesh, also in Camden. The restaurant is considered pan-Asian and is huge, you go up an escalator from the relatively grimy Camden market and it feels like you are transported in to an opulent temple. The floor to ceiling windows make it feel vast, as do the huge wooden sculptures, plus every inch of the place seems to be adorned with carved wood from the panels on the wall to the chairs.

The cocktails were lovely and very refreshing, I went for one with rum, lime, mint, sugar and mango called Aruru. We then settled down in a huge booth and went for the set menu - all of it was amazing but there was just too much food and I felt so over full at the end.

For starters we shared a beef salad, tempura scallops and sushi with chopped salmon wrapped in chinese lettuce. This was followed by a thai green curry and jasmine rice, one of the best I have eaten in London. Then dessert was a chocolate creme brulee which I could not finish but I loved the mango sorbet it was served with. The photos all came out very pink due to the lighting and do no justice to how beautifully it was presented or great it all tasted.