Yummy yummy

Nobu for Lunch on a Thursday!?!? Mathilda was kind enough to invite me for lunch at Nobu yesterday (Thursday). Scrumdidlioucious Japanese Cuisine... For those of you who have not heard of Nobu (Click here to see website http://www.noburestaurants.com/london/index.html), it is one of London's top restaurants. It has one Michelin star and is a common celebrity hang out. Our friend Jimmy used to work there as a chef and I must say I got a really good vibe of the place.

Fair enough the place isn't cheap. It's definitely not a "where should we go for quick affordable Lunch... oh lets go to Nobu" kind-of-place... unless of course you are raking it in...

But it didn't have that auro of SNOBBINESS to it that I was expecting. At least not for lunch. Normal tables, normal decoration and a normal enterance. The staff were all very friendly and polite but not annoyingly so. The food was fantastic. I ordered the Sashimi and Tempura lunch special for a mere £26 and my sister and Simon ordered the Bento box. Top quality ingredients. Top quality service and all in all a great experience. But not cheap.

One thing that struck me as strange was that there were a lot of children eating there yesterday. It didn't come across to me as a "children's menu" kind of place. We saw one hot-shot businessman father bring his harry potter looking son in and moments later answer his ringing phone and subsequently spend the next half an hour on the phone... was this Quality father-son time?!? The son looked a bit like he'd rather have been at McDonalds where he might have had a play ground to play at. When the food arrived he got a rather simple looking fillet o salmon, doubtlessly though the playground was probably in the kids mouth after he had tasted the simple looking salmon:-)

There was a guy in a business suit with a guy in jeans and a teeshirt, a large family table and some proper snobby looking business people... Interesting what Top-End restaurants attract for lunch in times of recession... :-)

On our way back, Mathilda and I wandered through Hyde Park on a lovely stroll. we've had fabulous weather here recently.

Don't know if it's only the UK but I have noticed a lot of senior looking men in business suits wearing extremely colourful socks... everything is properly conservative and then they have neon green socks... its quite odd... it makes me want to stop them in the middle of the street with one single question..."what is it you do that forces you to wear that suit when those socks indicate all you really want to do is wear wacky sunglasses, some tacky shorts and a hawaii t-shirt?"

Tomorrow we will attend the filming of a hit Political satire comedy chat show called "Argumental" here in London... looking forward to it. More news on that in a later post. And whats more I am planning on going to the Harcourt Arms to watch Malmö FF (my football team) play Häcken in the first game of the Swedish football season. Quite odd that I can watch it here in London but such is the times we are living in.