super-good!

Before I forget, a few notes about the food we went out for in London:

• Our first night there we had some really fantastic Thai food at Isarn on Upper St. in Islington. The food was excellent and the fruit drinks that they served were super-good. Also amusing were my sister-in-law’s tactics for getting our four-year-old nephew to eat the salt-and-pepper fried squid—she tells him it’s “squid-chicken.” He ate with gusto, and after a few minutes looked up and Andrea and me sagely. “Squid and chicken are the same thing,” he explained with great authority. Alyssa used this technique again on Thanksgiving, when she served Damaso a helping of turkey-chicken.

• A few nights later we had dinner at J Sheekey before seeing a play. I had a pan-fried filet of sole and was very pleased, and I didn’t do too bad of a job getting the bones out despite having had a few glasses of wine. Truly, this is an accomplishment of which I can be very proud, and one that must be awe-inspiring to anyone who might be reading this.

• Tea, particularly the tea we had at Liberty, was always wonderful. Why don’t we do this in the States?

• We had dinner at the Wapping Project, to which I won’t link because their website is fairly incomprehensible and irritatingly resizes your web browser. The food was good, but the atmosphere was really fun. Giant green generators all over the place, and a huge tree out front filled with yellow umbrellas; also, the small stand of trees surrounding a phone booth in the back room.