30 July - Assaggi & Cows
We go to Assaggi, because we’ve never checked it before and someone I trust rates it better than Locatelli and Zafferano. It may well be better but the décor is a bit of a let down, it sort of looks like they did this room up 12 years ago when they opened and then, left it. Not only that, the ‘paintings’ on the walls are large frames of … Block colours, you know a blue panel, a grey panel, a green panel. I don’t know… They’re simply awful. If you want unobtrusive, then leave the walls bare. The tables don’t have tablecloths, which is fine by me, but then maybe change the tables when the grain gets blackened in the joints from cleaning them etc. Oh and get more attractive staff??? And lighting?
Yes I know it’s all about the food here but the food is great but not sublime. You can get this in various places in Italy and they don’t have a Michelin star. I appreciate it simply looks like a nice local restaurant and the way the staff greet the various diners, they must all be regulars. Maybe if you live nearby (sample house just sold by Harry Enfield for £12 million ) then £13 for a pasta and £20 for a seabass is fine (standard prices) but spending £70 each on simple food and a glass or two of wine at dinner is still a lot. The house wine was excellent, Sardinian. I ate at Sardo (the first one near Warren St) not long ago and it was similar food only not so feted a restaurant. Anyway, I will not bore you with exactly what we ate. I hate that and have some friends of the kind who will describe meals in detail. It always astonishes me that they remember them weeks after they’ve come back from holidays etc. I think jeez, you have space in your head for retaining that? Or do you have a secret notebook where you jot down the menus? Why? I prefer to remember the sex I’ve had after rather than the way the pudding tasted.
Anyway, amongst the American TV execs, Jewish lawyers & families, some Arab princes and their gals, a large table of Italians with shaggy football hair, four ladies who lunch (and dinner) and another couple or two,. were Samanth Morton with baby and an unattractive bearded boyfriend (in fact there was so little to give indication he was a boyfriend I thought at first he may be a male nanny) with Ian Holm and a younger woman/wife. Nothing to report except that SM is very ample indeed which is odd as she never looked that way in movies. And she’s always badly dressed. Even in a pretty frock and matching shoes, it was the wrong frock if you see what I mean.
We wondered if they may be in a forthcoming movie together and out bonding before filming? A spot of googling later reveals that, she’s practically family as she’s engaged and has a kid with one of Holm’s sons and the boyfriend is a video director I’ve never heard of ….. I feel bad because it also says that Samantha’s had a heart attack following having the ceiling in her bedroom fall on her a while back and breaking her legs. So er.. she’s done well to recover and have a kid in January so never mind not shedding the baby fat yet. The other surprising news is that the wife with Ian Holm is his 5th and she’s a former artist model. How do you manage that? Not bad for Bilbo Baggins (and King Lear).
We then went to the Cow for a drink and liked it much better there.
Yes I know it’s all about the food here but the food is great but not sublime. You can get this in various places in Italy and they don’t have a Michelin star. I appreciate it simply looks like a nice local restaurant and the way the staff greet the various diners, they must all be regulars. Maybe if you live nearby (sample house just sold by Harry Enfield for £12 million ) then £13 for a pasta and £20 for a seabass is fine (standard prices) but spending £70 each on simple food and a glass or two of wine at dinner is still a lot. The house wine was excellent, Sardinian. I ate at Sardo (the first one near Warren St) not long ago and it was similar food only not so feted a restaurant. Anyway, I will not bore you with exactly what we ate. I hate that and have some friends of the kind who will describe meals in detail. It always astonishes me that they remember them weeks after they’ve come back from holidays etc. I think jeez, you have space in your head for retaining that? Or do you have a secret notebook where you jot down the menus? Why? I prefer to remember the sex I’ve had after rather than the way the pudding tasted.
Anyway, amongst the American TV execs, Jewish lawyers & families, some Arab princes and their gals, a large table of Italians with shaggy football hair, four ladies who lunch (and dinner) and another couple or two,. were Samanth Morton with baby and an unattractive bearded boyfriend (in fact there was so little to give indication he was a boyfriend I thought at first he may be a male nanny) with Ian Holm and a younger woman/wife. Nothing to report except that SM is very ample indeed which is odd as she never looked that way in movies. And she’s always badly dressed. Even in a pretty frock and matching shoes, it was the wrong frock if you see what I mean.
We wondered if they may be in a forthcoming movie together and out bonding before filming? A spot of googling later reveals that, she’s practically family as she’s engaged and has a kid with one of Holm’s sons and the boyfriend is a video director I’ve never heard of ….. I feel bad because it also says that Samantha’s had a heart attack following having the ceiling in her bedroom fall on her a while back and breaking her legs. So er.. she’s done well to recover and have a kid in January so never mind not shedding the baby fat yet. The other surprising news is that the wife with Ian Holm is his 5th and she’s a former artist model. How do you manage that? Not bad for Bilbo Baggins (and King Lear).
We then went to the Cow for a drink and liked it much better there.
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