The fall of work travel has begun, with trips planned every other week through the end of October (blech!). This trip started with another Sunday of travel (double blech!!) to DC for meetings, and then the red-eye to London (triple blech!!!).
As lovely as London is, I was staying quite far from city center. In fact, I was at a hotel next to London Heathrow (ok, I'll stop 'blech'-ing now). To get into London city center, I had to take the hotel shuttle (named the "Hotel Hoppa" to and from LHR for 7 pounds), the Heathrow Express (32 pounds round trip) and then the Underground (~2 pounds).
As inconvenient as that was, I did head to London city proper twice during the week I was there. On the Tuesday, I met up with some co-workers in Covent Garden.
We grabbed some fish and chips at a local pub (yum!):
And then walked around Oxford Circus/Picadilly Circus:
For dinner, we followed online reviews and ended up at a Verraswamy for some Indian grub. Veerswamy is apparently London's oldest Indian restaurant (established 1926).
Chicken lollipops (this was so good!):
King scallops in a yellow curry:
It was at this point during dinner that I was politely asked not to take any more pictures of the food, so no more pics. But, this was an awesome meal.
The next two days were filled with meetings at the hotel by LHR. On Thursday night, we were treated to dinner in Windsor, at The House on the Bridge. Beautifully situated on Windsor Bridge in Eton, Windsor.
I had the house cured Salmon with dill and horseradish cream to start:
And the roasted rack of lamb with onion potato croquette for the entree:
Creme brulee:
Dinner was fabulous. We were close to Windsor Castle, so we decided to go for a post-meal-digesting walk.
On Friday night, there was only me and a co-worker left in London, so we headed back into the city for dinner with my college friend, Dee-Anna. We met up and headed to Marylbone for dinner and ended up at a fantastic New Zealand-inspired tapas place called The Providores. Unfortunately, I forgot my camera, but it was a fantastic meal and it was so great to catch up with Dee.
And the roasted rack of lamb with onion potato croquette for the entree:
Creme brulee:
Dinner was fabulous. We were close to Windsor Castle, so we decided to go for a post-meal-digesting walk.
On Friday night, there was only me and a co-worker left in London, so we headed back into the city for dinner with my college friend, Dee-Anna. We met up and headed to Marylbone for dinner and ended up at a fantastic New Zealand-inspired tapas place called The Providores. Unfortunately, I forgot my camera, but it was a fantastic meal and it was so great to catch up with Dee. On Saturday morning, I flew back to SF, landing in time for the insane heat wave (jeez, such a drastic change from getting-chilly London!). Ahh, SF summer...
