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We fluffed around for the morning before pulling ourselves together just in time for our lunch booking at Dinner by Heston Blumenthal in Knightsbridge. We figured baby sitters would cost as just as much as taking the kids along, and when I checked with the restaurant they were keen to have the kids.
On such a beautiful sunny day the room couldn't have been better placed, with sweeping views out to the park. The staff had colouring books and a fantastic pop-up Alice in Wonderland book that had Emerson mesmerized.
We split the famous Meat Fruit entree between us. Foie Gras and other whipped magic dipped in a mandarin jelly, presented to look like a manderin. Awesome!
The kids split a beef fillet between them, Gab had the same. I had a taste of Gab's, I don't know how you get that coating, but it was delicious! I had the powered duck breast. Mine was delicious, but I think Gab won with the beef.
For desert I had the Tipsy cake - a small brioche that they baste in cream every five minutes for 45 minutes, served with spit roasted pineapple. It was insanely good. Gab had a Taffety cake 6-7 layers of naughty things. My desert was the winner, by a nose.
The super coolest desert though - we ordered the kids liquid nitrogen vanilla ice cream that they make at the table. He has had this marvelous cart built to do all the magic there in front of you, it had the kids going nuts - not photos of this, just video. It came with four optional toppings: dried raspberries, popping candy, original 100s and 1000s or almond praline. Emerson could be persuaded away from the 100s and 1000s, despite the server trying 5-6 times - inside the candy coating of the 100s and 1000s are fennel seeds. Of course this tainted her ice cream so we swapped. An acquired taste, but still not bad.
As we entered the dinning room our waiter warned us they had a special guest dining today and said it would be interesting to know if we could work out who it was. A security detail came in and set up ahead of Baroness Thatcher sitting down at the window seat right in front of us. Well as soon as Emerson heard who she was she set off to do some colouring in for her. Later when we gave it to her she had no idea what to make of it, but was happy for Emerson's attention none the less.
Plumped and primed from lunch and a few good wines we made our way to Abbey Rd to do our own Beatles photo, then to Lords before heading back to the shops on Regent St and Hamelys in particular - Max skipped down the road to Hamelys once he saw it was just a few doors ahead of us. We emerged nearly 2 hours later with surprisingly little, but loads cool toy experiences and birthday ideas :)
Across the road the queue had already formed for the iPad 3 release due at the end of this week! A stroll around the shops along Carnaby st and some dinner before heading back to the hotel for a relatively early night.
Our Euro tour starts tomorrow, they have a 4am wake up call coming our way so we can be on the bus by 5am, ouch! Tomorrow night we'll be in Amsterdam!
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Alan OMG, I'm green with envy ... You described everything soo amazingly I don't know if I can face my chicken schnitzel sandwich for lunch... And topped off by having the Iron Lady at the next table. Am loving these blog feeds ... Keep em coming & have fun in Amsterdam, maybe get a sitter for the kids if you're heading to the relight district. Al x