Tag: tea

The Rosebery

The Rosebery

As I continue to be locked in my own country, I took a little staycation and treated myself to something that I normally wouldn’t enjoy.  This was part of my attempt to pretend to live it up overseas and escape, at least for a moment, 

Japanese cheesecake

Japanese cheesecake

In attempting to address a profound critic of my writing, I have been forced to undertake a laborious undertaking. Trying to bake. To provide the greatest degree of potential literary amusement, I decided to be ambitious and try for a cheesecake.  If it collapsed, sank 

Closed & Co

Closed & Co

As eating out is almost my raison d’etre and when that is taken away an entirely foreseeable issue arises.  No, I don’t swell up as a balloon as I gorge on McDonalds in some misguided teenage rebellion (I would have more class than that, would 

Ginza Onodera

Ginza Onodera

Afternoon tea. I would usually associate this with the British tea drinking culture.  With dainty scones, luxurious finger sandwiches and select beverages.  All held in a carefully white tablecloth environment.  Altogether a rather refined affair. Japanese seemed to be the antithesis of English tea with 

Le Pont de la Tour

Le Pont de la Tour

Hindsight is a wonderful thing.  Especially when you can look back and mentally kick yourself for making certain choices.  I had been bemoaning the lack of writing motivation to my dining companion but following my most recent gastronomic adventure, inspiration was abounding in abundance. Salad