Rainy Friday

My week so far

Let me start by saying that my friend J is in London for a few days. To celebrate, we organised dinner at Tsunami. There were 5 of us, all girls and all Cypriots. There was amazing food, there was lots of pinot gricio for the girls and a martini for me and there were lots of laughs (especially because some of us had a bit too much to drink). It should suffice to say that J may have given all her ten credit cards to the poor waiter when the bill arrived.

Tsunami (Charlotte street)
For the moment I declare Tsunami as my favourite restaurant in London. My friend S and I arrived first at the restaurant and to award ourselves for our punctuality we ordered some Kataifi prawns to nibble on with our drinks while we waited for the others. These were really good. Not too much kataifi (which I think tends to be the issue with all food containing kataifi), big juicy prawns and an amazing pink, sweet, creamy and chiliesque sauce. Loved it. S wanted to order more (as the other girls had arrived by the time the prawns had arrived and we had to share). E dropped one in my handbag but still ate it and J missed out as she was the last one to arrive.

We also had some spicy Edamame (which was hot and spicy and wonderful) and sunkissed salmon sashimi (which E and S loved but I preferred the normal sashimi which of course we also had). We had the prawn tempura rolls, the dragon rolls and the soft shell crab rolls. I did not have any of the dragon rolls but the other two were excellent and very crunchy. We then shared three main courses (black miso cod, wasabi lamb and salmon teriyaki). The cod was silky and it crumbled nidcely. I loved it. The wasabi lamb was also very soft and tasty. It came with exotic mushrooms and some sort of leek pure which suited it perfectly. The salmon teriyaki looked very ordinary and I stayed away but the other girls liked it.

Finally we had some chocolate lava cake which might have been the one low point of the whole evening. J said the nobu one is better. S said the M&S one is better..so..you can draw your own conclusions.

By that time we were all crying with laughter for god knows what reason and therefore it did not matter at all.

Great food, great evening, great service (the waiter indulged the five drunk Cypriot girls rather than tell them off! I do not think I would have been as patient in their shoes.

The rest of my week ...

...was less eventful. And now its Friday afternoon. It is grey outside. It is raining (which is of course pretty standard in this city but the two warm weeks in September made me forget that and I was therefore just a bit suprised when Autumn finally set in),

Autunmn

But Autumn brings with it some great things such us boots and umbrellas and fireplaces and yellow leaves in the street. So, I have decided to embrace the nice things and forget about the rain. As the poem on the tag of the gorgeous umbrella which M's sister gave me last weekend says:

"You should not be sad when it rains but raise an umbrella that points towards the sky and while walking with tip-tap steps through the puddle you imagine all the flowers blooming in the rain."

And therefore off I go with tip-tap steps into the rain and out of the office...