Lovely eateries in London

On Thursday I went to the Kensington Roof Gardens, which I've been to before. The difficult thing about the place is that you have to go down a dodgy side street to find the entrance.


It's easy to lose confidence that you're in the right place when you're in your 'lounge suit' grade of attire and suddenly surrounded by blokes unloading delivery trucks all about.
But having found the entrance and taken the lift up the gardens, they are a lovely oasis that is hard to believe is in the centre of London.

It's not huge, being on a roof, but there are several styles of gardens with flamingoes and ornamental ducks, as well the pond with footbridge, trees, flowers and shrubs.

And I mean proper trees with proper roots, which made several people wonder how the building supported it all without a random root popping through a light fitting in the floor below.

On Friday, I had a working lunch in Covent Garden at Carluccios, which was extraordinarily civilised. Fettuccine with wild boar ragu followed by Tiramisu made with strong espresso coffee and coffee liqueur - I love Italian!