Having a week and half off from work with no holiday away planned is a bit of a rare occurance and felt like a luxury. The main aim was to relax and get away from the (of late) stressed work mentality, this revolved around food of course with some touristy trips planned in. We tried to eat out once a day and cook some new thing too, some of which deemed whole posts such as Meat Liquor, The Luxe and the curry we made from The Spicery.
Here is a snap shot of the some of the other places we ate along the way...
I went to my auntie's house who lives just outside Manchester in a pretty village called Lymm, where they cooked up an amazing leg of lamb roast with all the trimmings. I rarely choose lamb but love it and the moral of the story is to buy good quality meat and cook slowly.
When we came back to London, I finally convinced the boyfriend to try YO! Sushi as they have an offer on a Monday. All the plates are one price so it doesn't suddenly get expensive, usually you keep taking the small plates off the convey belt and they mount up pretty quick. We had quite a few meat dishes but we will be returning again. This is great for me as I love sushi.
We got up early on a couple of days and headed out for breakfast/brunch. We went for a walk around the London Bridge area and stumbled on a pub that has long been recommended by a friend called The Garrison where we tucked into a full fry up.
This set us up for a wander around Borough Market and to brave the queue for Monmouth Coffee. A great and tiny coffee shop at the edge of the market which always has a huge queue snaking around the corner, the coffee is well worth the wait. You can also stock up on your coffee fix for at home too, you choose the beans and they freshly ground them there and then.
We even managed to squeeze in a few pancakes for shrove Tuesday.
We popped to one of our favourite local restaurants in West Hampstead to check out their weekday lunch deal which we normally miss out on due to being at work. The Wet Fish Cafe offers a lunch special and drink for a bargain £6. On the day we went it was two fried eggs with chorizo and spinach with a small dressed salad, really simple but just what I needed after a morning swim.
Towards the end of the week the sun came out which meant lots of stopping off in sunny beer gardens and we discovered some lovely pubs along the way such as the Freemasons Arms in Hampstead.
We also went to The Stag for Sunday lunch in Hampstead, which I have reviewed before but this is the first time we have sat inside (usually we head for the beer garden in summer) but we still had our usual whole chicken to share.
Phew, I think that is everything from the week. Next week is back to work and maybe a diet!
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