Scribblings from the Mitchy Side

I had my belated birthday dinner yesterday, when I was joined at Belgo's by several good chums and much food was scoffed. And there was fruit beer, oh yes!

Note to self: starting off at a pub before going to Belgo's is silly. I had the best part of 2 pints of cider on a mostly empty stomach before ever reaching the restaurant. Will not make this mistake next time! I was joined at the pub by thessalian, who'd been more or less dragooned into coming and was still slightly cranky from having been prised out of bed rather abruptly. However cider soothes all :) There was also thalinoviel and a sudden Steve! (tyrell), although Steve couldn't stay long and had to scamper back to Ware *sulks* We did try and kidnap him!

We met up with adelpha and kelemvor at Belgo's although there was no sign of minmorton. We didn't have to wait long for our table and were soon pouring over the beer and food menus and cackling amongst ourselves. Fruit beers of various types were acquired and I tried the apple beer which I'd not tried before. Not bad, very sweet though, I think I prefer the raspberry. Anyway, food was ordered. kelemvor and I both chose the puff pastry with haddock and mussels in a cream sauce, Janey and Thesski went for the salmon fish cakes and adelpha (as the non-fish eating vegetarian, he was a bit limited in choice, poor chap) had the cheese croquettes. There was happy slurping and scoffing noises for several minutes as we did full justice to the food.

We'd no sooner finished our starters when minmorton arrived, having got slightly delayed and slightly lost. But she made it, yay! We hastily procured her the menus and the wait staff were excellent at getting her main order to her only five minutes after we received ours. Both myself and Min opted for the wild boar sausages with stoemp mash. kelemvor went for the spit roasted chicken with sweet chilli and ginger sauce, adelpha had (I think, I forgot to ask) the grilled goats cheese starter as a main course, while Janey and Thesski shared minds again and both had the mussels Marinière, which they kindly let me try. I'm a big fan now! Mussels for the Mitchy next time I'm there :D

I didn't have room for afters but did indulge in one of Belgo's decadent Irish Coffee's (slurrrp!), while it was noticeable the three people who DIDN'T go to the pub first were the only 3 to have room for dessert :D Min had the bread and butter pudding, which looked lovely; kelemvor went for white chocolate mousse and adelpha did full justice to the excellent waffle with chocolate sauce.

It took a while for us to want to move but eventually we waddled off. We aimed for the Sailisbury, as I didn't feel like trekking to the Captain's Cabin but the Salisbury was the wrong side of "insanely busy", so we carried on towards the Captain's Cabin anyway. Unfortunately, I had to pause in Leicester Square to give my digestive system a minute or two to decide if it was going to make me throw up or not *sigh* It didn't, but after several rib loosening retches and belches, I felt lots better. Harrumph. Everyone was far too kind to mutter something about "lightweight" :D Anyway, we safely made the Cabin with no more adventures and after some superb steath table hunting by adelpha, we nabbed a table we could all sit at and we nattered for a while. Thesski had to leave as the poor girl had a killer migraine, and the rest of us didn't stay too much longer, toddling off on our separate ways around 9pm.

All in all, it was a fantastic afternoon evening and it was particularly lovely to see kelemvor and adelpha because it'd been a ridiculous amount of time since I'd seen them. Thank you for coming, folks! It was great!

And I didn't even have a hangover today. *happy*