Travels in search of quiet eating
DISCLAIMER – THIS VISIT WAS CONCLUDED BEFORE THE UK IMPOSED LOCK DOWN Usually when people laugh in my face, it is after I get to know them. Usually after about an hour. This time, it was within 30 seconds of stepping in. Bluebird Brothers is…
Desperation makes me do stupid things. I often do ill advised things without such emotional baggage but the weight of despondency and despair makes thing particularly idiotic. Like that time I ate that chicken sashimi in famished hunger. Or perhaps that time I thought it…
There is definitely something to be said for creating expectation. Look at that decal. Promisingly, something not mainstream. Motif repeated on rather snazzy copper plaque at the door if you missed it. The theme continues into the waiting room. Got to keep it real. Some…
It is the unexciting which is the hardest to write about. Mediocrity is rather boring. On the flip side, something with is extravagantly, undeniably good is also rather difficult. Come to think of it, it is only when things are quite bad, that it seems…
An unanticipated effect of fame can be the loss of something. It could be humility (look how great I am). Or perhaps sense (look, I can fly!). Yet most sadly, perhaps it is just loss of 20/20 vision instead morphing into something rather more constrained…