A couple of good chows before I left London this week. First, tapas at the Salt Yard, where some very tasty grilled bread with alioli was followed by some other things: padron peppers, stuffed courgette flowers stuffed with ewe’s milk cheese, lamb on roast parsnips,tiny squid…
and then a pair of more than interesting desserts: a fresh plum jelly with sherry cream on top and warm madeleines on the side; and grilled peach slices topped with lavender ice cream, much nicer than chewing on a pot-pourri but with an oddly powerful similarity.
Then on Tuesday, a light lunch at Carluccio‘s – for me, some mushroom soup with pancetta
and an appreciative browse of the stuff in the window:
