First off - thanks to everyone for the birthday wishes to Nicole on and around November 2nd - she really appreciated it! We had a great weekend, beginning with sushi on Friday night, and then a little shopping Saturday for the festivities in the evening.
Nicole's birthday was a perfect excuse for a night on the town, starting off with the musical, Chicago, at the Cambridge Theatre near Covent Garden and rounding out with a three-course dinner at the gourmet "Landau" near Oxford Circus. Extremely attentive service, artistic presentation, excellent pre-dinner aperatif's and champagne made for a fantastic evening. We would recommend The Landau to anyone.
Sunday, the actual b-day, opened with breakfast at our favorite AM joint - "Harlem," which 'specializes in American soul food' and the best blueberry pancakes in town... whoa, they're good. Later that day, we invited friends over to our place for the inaugural get-together, featuring red wine, pizza and then pub-crawl in our neighborhood to cap it all off. We found a couple of new great pubs, including one that will likely become our go-to pub, our "home field" if you will... it is a good one called the "Prince Edward," with a great selection of of beers and ales.
Following the weekend - next up on our agenda was a trip to the Bordeaux region of France, renowned for its Chateaux in the country and fantastic wines. We've just returned with over 300 pictures, and some great stories - more on that in the next post. Hope all is well with everybody - in other news, we've received our first confirmed visitors, if you're interested in visiting us, better get your reservations in now! Good weekends/weeks are going fast! Haha, just kidding, there are plenty of them out there.. cheers everybody, have a good week.
Nicole's birthday was a perfect excuse for a night on the town, starting off with the musical, Chicago, at the Cambridge Theatre near Covent Garden and rounding out with a three-course dinner at the gourmet "Landau" near Oxford Circus. Extremely attentive service, artistic presentation, excellent pre-dinner aperatif's and champagne made for a fantastic evening. We would recommend The Landau to anyone.
Sunday, the actual b-day, opened with breakfast at our favorite AM joint - "Harlem," which 'specializes in American soul food' and the best blueberry pancakes in town... whoa, they're good. Later that day, we invited friends over to our place for the inaugural get-together, featuring red wine, pizza and then pub-crawl in our neighborhood to cap it all off. We found a couple of new great pubs, including one that will likely become our go-to pub, our "home field" if you will... it is a good one called the "Prince Edward," with a great selection of of beers and ales.
Following the weekend - next up on our agenda was a trip to the Bordeaux region of France, renowned for its Chateaux in the country and fantastic wines. We've just returned with over 300 pictures, and some great stories - more on that in the next post. Hope all is well with everybody - in other news, we've received our first confirmed visitors, if you're interested in visiting us, better get your reservations in now! Good weekends/weeks are going fast! Haha, just kidding, there are plenty of them out there.. cheers everybody, have a good week.
3 comments:
Hi Nicole and Matt,
We are glad to hear that you guys are having so much fun! Nicole sounds like you had a great birthday =)
We are looking into coming to visit, so we will let you know!
Scott and Ang.
Hi Guys!
So excited to visit some of your favorite pubs and hopefully catch a show with you too! I hope the 6 months goes by quickly!!
xoxox,
Melissa and Keith
what a FUN birthday weekend!!! I am so happy to hear you guys are enjoying yourselves so much over there... Mike and I are quite jealous! haha... and yes, we are trying to come visit you both soon too... after we decide when the heck we are getting married, haha... love the blog! miss you tons! xoxo
Kristina and Mike
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