Yesterday I celebrated my birthday at Hix. It was just M and I as I am going away for a shoot to Weymouth on Monday and M is flying off to Seattle for a couple of weeks.
Hix is one of my favorite places to eat in London. They always have the nicest old fashioned dishes. I started with asparagus and the best hollandaise I have ever had and M had a very nice prawn cocktail. I must say, the bread was not as good as ours!
There was a slight problem with hubby’s main but that got replaced quickly with something delicious while I enjoyed a roasted chicken salad. I was also served a complimentary smoked salmon and Richard Corrigan’s soda bread. I never liked soda bread but this one was amazing: sweet and slightly moist.
We had to share just one dessert as the portions are rather generous, we picked a cherry blossom jelly. The cherry blossoms were interestingly nice, nor sweet neither bitter with a good texture. And it looked so pretty.
The wine and bubbly were equally good. All in all a very pleasant evening.
Today we popped to Royal Academy and obviously as soon as I got there I realised I totally missed Van Gogh. We had a look at Relics of Old London: Photography and the Spirit of Old City. It was interesting to see old pictures of London streets however the exhibition was tiny.
Afterward we went to Fortnum & Mason to pick up few English specialties for M’s American colleagues. We settled at The Parlour for a cup of tea and cake enjoying our last day together for few weeks.
