Lunch at the clove Club

After our late night at the theater I slept in until 10:30! This left little time to eat breakfast before it was time to eat lunch. Actually our lunch reservation was for 1:30 which was a good thing. It has been getting incrementally hotter as the days went by in London and today it was going to break into the 90s. We checked on Google and saw that the 3.4 mile ride was going to take us 35 minutes! So we call down to the concierge to get a taxi early. We hate to be late. Good thing we called for an early cab because it actually took us 50 minutes to go that far. Our driver explained that all of London is being torn up for improvements to the road. He actually reduced the cost of our taxi ride from £35 down to £20.  We were glad thatb this taxi was air-conditioned. We saw a lot of people sweating out on the streets and in other cabs.  The ride back seem to go a lot faster and the bill certainly was smaller. Fewer people were out as the heat got up into about 92 or 93.   We bounced around a little bit more on Oxford Street and had another picnics only this time in our room. We got ready to fly out the following day Wednesday. . It was a good day to be leaving, with an expected record high temperature on Thursday and a possible British Airways strike on Friday, it's the universe telling us that time for our trip to be over.

This restaurant had already named themselves the Clove Club butn organization in Scotland already had the rights that name. Things are not looking good. The restaurant invited the Scots to dinner. They gave them a seven-course dinner which convinced them that they could share the name Clove Club

Logo

Sweet and thoughtful 

Nick is new and from Toronto 

Sparkling Kambucha 

Chicken shaped serving dishes

 Smoked trout belly 

Scallops with elderberry flowers served in the Shell of a head of a crab

Buttermilk coated fried chicken with pine salt served in a bed of pine needles

The secret box containing haggis balls

Oh such lovely haggis

Melons are frozen and then graded out to make a gazpacho with ham jelly and Ash cream

Bioactive vegetable salad some cooked some raw

The kombucha was quite nice

A tasty tuna dish

A very busy kitchen indeed

Saithe fish with Indian Street Food spices

A deboned chicken foot served up fried like pork rinds inside a chicken shaped serving dish

Many levels of chicken indeed

This particular type of chicken Liz twice as long as other chickens. This gives them a much richer flavor

A bubbly emulsion

Awardsline the walls. They have two Michelin stars and have been in the top 50 restaurants for 3 years running

Sliced strawberries on top of a strawberry jelly with cream mixed with the sake sediment 

Finely chopped strawberries in a cup

The second dessert a bit of ice cream and a Bakewell pie with Black currants

The final snacks served on half of a bottle of wine

And a very happy anniversary it has been all around the world

Our Spanish friend Iris 

Some crazy street art on our way home

Peace

London architecture

All of the legs of the scaffolding we're wrapped in foam cushioning. I wonder if this is because the people staring at their phones continue to walk into them

When you drive this kind of car you can just pull up on the sidewalk in park

Interactive signs you can push them one way and get one color and the other way and get another