Last Dinner in London

I can see that the photos and descriptions of meals from my month away are going to be dribbling out slowly, and that's okay. My last day in London involved a leisurely afternoon in the Victoria & Albert Museum, an excellent lunch at a place in Covent Garden (the name of which I will figure out soon), a viewing of the gripping but depressing French film The Heartbeat Detector starring the amazing Mathieu Amalric.


There was a Giraffe restaurant just around the corner from the movie theater and on the way back to my hotel so I stopped and had wok fried edamame (made with lemongrass, lime, and chiles and sprinkled with rock salt). With that I had a glass of Jeio prosecco.


For my main I went with the Malaysian coconut curry laksa with chicken and prawns, accompanied by a glass of Riff pinot grigio de Venezie. It's lovely, no? I would have preferred the laksa to have had more of a kick but it definitely provided a soothing end to the meal. Once back at the Tavistock I had "just" one pint of Magners cider. An apple a day and all that.