Gastronomical therapy

I don’t have much of a social life. I pretty much gave all that up when I embarked on my business venture; time spent eating and drinking has been replaced with time spent designing, marketing, book keeping and website developing – not that I would change any of it – I totally love what I do.

So, it’s a very rare occasion that I get asked out for dinner and even rarer that it’s at one of my favorite restaurants – Azzari Too – a hidden gem not 2 miles from home. I was out with the girls (Max and Nicky) from The Cherry Tree and they picked up the tab (a little thank you for helping them get their new shop up and running).

The food as always was fab  – baked camembert with red onion relish, tomato and red onion salad, bread and olives to start – the girls had sea bass on coconut rice with pak choi and I had the asian lamb on bombay potatoes with spinach; dessert was a shared chocolate and Baileys cheesecake with berries (you should have seen the size of it!) – all washed down with a couple of bottles of Veuve – and very nice it all was too.

As always we gossiped endlessly, put the world to right, belly laughed at our own misfortune and misadventures and distracted the staff – who are always up for a gossip (turns out a couple of them knew restaurant managers we had worked with over 18 years ago). Barry (the owner) managed to escape the kitchen and join us for a while – we discussed the food, surviving the credit crunch and the photographs he had on the walls -
there was even talk of me photographing his food for his website.

All in all a darn good evening!