Eating at Café Flo in the Hampstead Heath Neighborhood (London, UK) with Savvy Mom Ruth Paget –
Ruth Pennington Paget
When
Laurent came back from his first day of working with his English colleagues on
a bone marrow transplant project for the European Community as a computer
engineering consultant for hospitals throughout Europe, he said we were invited
out to dinner at a nice place down the street.
We
walked down the street to a restaurant called Café Flo. This restaurant featured French and
cosmopolitan dishes such as sukiyaki from Japan (chicken kebabs with a sweet
soy sauce coating) and souvlaki from Greece (lamb kebab with yogurt, cucumber,
and green onion dipping sauce on the side).
I
installed Florence in her stroller next to a wall and told her “Café Flo” is your
resto, kiddo!”
Laurent’s
colleague seemed more relaxed when he was not in a traffic jam on the
Orbital. Laurent’s work colleague
ordered rosé wine to go with our meal.
Laurent liked rosé and asked if it could be chilled.
Laurent’s
work colleague said that you could hardly get a cold beer in London let alone a
bottle of wine. As an entrée, Laurent
and I ordered fish followed by a plat principal, main dish, of poussin diable –
a spicy, broiled and flayed baby chicken for me and an English dish called bangers
and mash for Laurent.
I
regaled Laurent and his colleague with a travel dialog about Ruthie’s Walk
around London Town.
As
a dessert, I ordered lemon sorbet followed by a cappuccino.
I
really thought my vacation was great.
By
Ruth Paget, author of Eating Soup with Chopsticks and Marrying France
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