Monday, September 30, 2013

Good eats at Gordon Ramsey's Flagship restaurant!

Epic four hour tasting dinner at Gordon's restaurant Petrus. Crazy good eats -- see menu below -- featuring a few of his signature dishes :-)

#boom












Tourist Day**

** day was highlighted by us taking many pictures of things we have previously taken pics of multiple times in years past. 

Below is the famed British TV crime fighting duo, "Fish 'N Chips"


Big Ben...Parliament (required joke)


They called Edward I "Longshanks" because he was 6'2", a "giant" in his day.  Below you'll find David Salm-shanks


Couldn't get near 10 Downing





Bar Italia

Anthony Bourdain said it had the best coffee in London.  It was as if devine magical fairies were peeing on my tonsils.



Morning, 'Guvna

Hitting up Bourdain's favorite London cafe. 

So, we flew 4100 miles, trekked across town and, yelm, Andy is watching the finale of Breaking Bad. 




My view from Wembley

Salmi and Andrew were upstairs yesterday. View from my seats below. I sat next to the metrodome announcer and he was unimpressed with the PA guy at Wembley; said he screwed up timing of the player intros. 


Here I am by myself. Stuck in section 107. 


Wembley has some ridiculously cool and large big screens. Right before the game they showed the Vikings locker room live. Very cool. 


Sunday, September 29, 2013

More Wembley

Ash has a Wembley Halo


Ash & Dave 


Not much to eat in London at 1 in the morning

Fortunately, though, we found a great noodle shop to go all Anthony Bourdain in the situation. 

While waiting for food, we met a guy who is Mongolian. We expressed how much we like Mongolian barbecue, and he burst our bubble when he said it was the invention of the Chinese, and now the Mongolians do it just to please the tourists.