Yes, I know it's been a long time since my last post (as many of you have pointed out, well one person in particular!). However, when I started this blog who would have thought that RM would become a pensioner and that we'd celebrate by spending a wonderfully, luxurious fortnight in Egypt.
Although I've failed my original aim of completing my challenge before the end of October, I'm still going to be in Soho until the end of the year, so my revised aim is to finish by Christmas.
On the first day back from our holiday, the 'house husband' refused to cook and so we started off with drinks in The Montagu Pyke
http://www.jdwetherspoon.co.uk/home/pubs/the-montagu-pyke. I'd seen the very uninspiring entrance on Greek Street East and thought it looked a bit dodgy. But on walking through the narrow bar, it opened up into a huge bar with its main entrance on Charing Cross Road. Although I've never been a fan of Wetherspoons (mainly because it always brings to mind old men drinking 99p pints of bitter all afternoon), it really changed my mind. Because of their no music policy, cheap drinks and reasonable sharing platters it makes an ideal place for after work get togethers. Our bottle of Villa Maria New Zealand Sauvignon Blanc was just over £13 and it was absolutely delicious (probably more so after two weeks of drinking Egyptian wine appropriately named: Pharaoh, Obelisk and Omar Khayyam).
We then went more up market to Marco Pierre White's L'Escargot just across the road: http://www.lescargotrestaurant.co.uk/. We chose the pre-theatre two course meal for £15 and had a glass of champagne to celebrate the publication of the Christmas edition of the Boots Health and Beauty Magazine (if you have no idea what I'm talking about, buy a copy for £1 and check out page 42). I then had mushroom veloute served in a rather large portion. I was interested that even Marco uses a doily on the plate (I remember painting them as a child). RM chose a more appropriately sized starter of chicken terrine. We shared main courses of pork with red cabbage, potato and a port jus and gnocchi with a tomato sauce, Parmesan and rocket. Both were well presented and delicious, but after two weeks of simple Egyptian meals, they seemed very heavy and rich and I wouldn't have wanted to sit through a two hour play after it.
To complete a hat trick we nipped back across Greek Street, to a very lively Zebrano http://www.zebrano.uk.com/greekSt/index.asp. We hit happy hour (before 8pm) where a very helpful Matt told us that we could have two drinks for the price of one. Therefore our double gin and tonics were only £6.75. Although it wasn't my sort of place (too much loud music and people far too young), it finished our evening off very well.
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