It was still soft opening at Indian-inspired Farzi Café (fully open now) where butter-roast beef marrow with vegetable crisps is as luxurious as it’s arguably renegade.
After the Royal Opera House general rehearsal of Tchaikovsky’s powerfully staged opera The Queen of Spades, clam chowder with smoked bacon at delightful Parsons in Endell Street.
A pal who lives in Greenwich leads me to pan-Asian Zaibatsu café where an extensive menu is notably reasonable and batter for tempura ethereal.
In Me and Mr B at Crazy Coqs redoubtable Anita Gillette sings tributes to her late friend Irving Berlin. In Brasserie Zedel I have my favourite first course: carottes rapées, for £3.45.
Sunday at MEATliquor KingsX — and for five more Sundays — a tasting menu from Filipino-flavoured BBQ Dreamz, a hit on BBC Two’s My Million Pound Menu. Loved the adobo glazed crispy cauliflower.
