We decided to leave the full Tower tour for another time as we didn't have time to do it justice, but mostly I wanted to get along and get some photos of the World War One commemoration they are setting up, which is really something else... to mark the centenary of the First World War an army of volunteers are filling the Tower moat with 888,246 large porcelain poppies, one for each life lost by the British in the war. Words can't do it justice, but then neither can my pictures really...
We also found our way to Knightsbridge (what great names they have for places) where we dined at some restaurant or other I think called Breakfast owned by Charlton Heston (Plant of the Apes guy? Who knew he did food?)... oh no wait it was called Dinner, and it was run by some bloke Heston Blumenthal. Apparently it's a thing.
No photos of food were taken (not really that kind of place) but it was a jolly nice feed, so much so I will make mention without getting all foodie (side note, we had a book in one of our pub rooms called 'The Iconoclast's Guide to Foodies' which was pretty funny). I liked it for the fact the meals are taken from English recipes from throughout the ages so for entrées we had one called Meat Fruit which is based on something from the 1500's and Rice and Flesh which is from 1390 (who knew food was that good 600 years ago?) and then for main I had (surprise!) Spiced Pigeon from 1780 and my companion had Chicken Cooked with Lettuces from 1670. Dessert was Tipsy Cake from 1810 (which you have to order at the start cause it takes them 45 minutes to make) and Brown Bread Ice Cream c.1830. Have a Google if you feel like it, it all looked as good as it tasted.
Each poppy made individually and assembled and planted by hand, one at a time, the installation taking several months to complete. Truly an amazing and deeply moving tribute.
We also found our way to Knightsbridge (what great names they have for places) where we dined at some restaurant or other I think called Breakfast owned by Charlton Heston (Plant of the Apes guy? Who knew he did food?)... oh no wait it was called Dinner, and it was run by some bloke Heston Blumenthal. Apparently it's a thing.
No photos of food were taken (not really that kind of place) but it was a jolly nice feed, so much so I will make mention without getting all foodie (side note, we had a book in one of our pub rooms called 'The Iconoclast's Guide to Foodies' which was pretty funny). I liked it for the fact the meals are taken from English recipes from throughout the ages so for entrées we had one called Meat Fruit which is based on something from the 1500's and Rice and Flesh which is from 1390 (who knew food was that good 600 years ago?) and then for main I had (surprise!) Spiced Pigeon from 1780 and my companion had Chicken Cooked with Lettuces from 1670. Dessert was Tipsy Cake from 1810 (which you have to order at the start cause it takes them 45 minutes to make) and Brown Bread Ice Cream c.1830. Have a Google if you feel like it, it all looked as good as it tasted.
We retired rather too well fed and wined, after two rather good restaurant meals in one day, having also stepped out with our hosts... We have, it's fair to say, had a lot of good food and drink on this trip, but hey even if you are not mad about flash food you do have to treat yourself now and then... Thus it was then the weekend...
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