Jazz Cafe + Konaki Greek Restaurant

Eileen and I went to the Jazz cafe to seeRay’s Jazz live above Foyle Book shop near Tottencourt Station. It was a small cozy cafe with Jazz Live band. It was very full and everyone went to listen their performance. Fantastic Music!

After that, we booked a table to Konaki Greek Restaurant according my research and it voted 4 of 5 Greek restaurant in town. Meet John inside the restaurant, and enjoyed our great lamb and greek pasta and wine.

Lamb is exactly tender as it should be. Eileen’s lamb shank and John’s BBQ chicken was perfect cook and very tasty. It was a good meal with friendly environment. It was my first time to try the Greek food and I absolutely love greek’s pasta.

It was a satisfied meal and chatted so much with Eileen.

Vapiano Italian Restaurant in London

Vapiano is franchise Italian restaurant in Europe and the State. My friend Kevin took me there when we were working together. From their website page, it is described the restaurant is ‘Somewhere between the nicest of fast casual and hippest of casual dining restaurants is Vapiano’.

The interior design is clean modern, open-space, casual with high standard quality food, especially there is fresh basil plant in every single table. Pasta is home-made, and it cooks in front of you, so it makes sure all fresh. It comes with a big portion as well, and you can choose your pasta types. My favourite pasta is Scampi E Spinaci, which is king prawn with pesto and baby spinach and Salsiccia Con Fichi , which is spicy Italian sausage with fresh figs. (both £8.50,  I just made it sound so fancy, did I? ) They are the best. Pizza is making in front of you including the dough, crispy edge with interesting filling.

Price is incredible cheap and so reasonable. Pasta and pizza starts from £6. Dessert from £3 – £5. All the staff and chef speak Italian. It is a friendly and self-service restaurant, so suitable for a quick lunch and dinner place, but also somewhere you can enjoy hang out with your friends.

We have been there many times and it is always my favourite quick Italian health restaurant. You can see more restaurant picture and memu here. 4.5 stars out of 5 for sure and highly recommended. We always went to the one behind Topshop in Oxford Street, you can not miss it.

Vapiano是一个在欧洲和美国十分流行的意大利连锁餐厅,在牛津街Topshop后面是我们经常去的地方。朋友介绍我去,之后我就几乎是他们的常客。店里装修十分时尚及现代,干净又整洁。每台桌面上都有一盆新鲜的Basil香叶,随时需要随时栽放在你的意大利面里。所有的意大利面都是厨师每天新鲜制作,所以十分新鲜美味。有8-10种意大利面条给你选择,我最喜欢的2道是 ‘菠菜大虾意大利面’ 或是 ’新鲜无花果加意大利辣香肠‘ 超级是我的最爱,价格十分诱人,才8镑多,大大分量加新鲜原料。pizza也是新鲜到连馅底的面粉都是现场撮然后加下原料的。

价格实在便宜,这么新鲜好的餐厅意大利面从6镑起,甜点也是3-5镑。所有的东西都是现场炒和煮给你看,你可以学到东西又可以吃到好吃的意大利菜,当然所有的厨师也是意大利人,都说意大利话。不仅是自助式服务,健康,简单快捷的意大利餐厅。假如你赶时间又想吃个健康的意大利菜,Vapiano绝对是我首选。你可以从这里看到 菜单更多图片。绝对推荐4.5星!

Belgo and Bierodrome

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Friends and I went to the Belgian restaurant called Belgo last friday to celebrate my friend’s birthday and also a cheer-up for no-more exams. The restaurant is located in Covent Garden and it is really famous for the mussels and of course their beers! It is a popular restaurant and people always queue outside, but very easy to get a seat. It is an opening kitchen and you can feel the noises and smell delicious food when you walked in.

We ordered a beef with Belgium beer – dark favor, beef was tender and juicy; a chicken dish – creamy but less tasty than the beef; a classic sausages and mash – creamy and perfect mash with spicy sausages; and finally my favorite green spinish with creamy mussels – looked like a green pizza, but so delicious! Thumbs up!

Moreover, there is always a room for desserts. So we tried the Belgium chocolate cheese cake and passionfruit with white chocolate mousse. Oh dear! They were so enjoyable and definitely 5 stars.

Overall, service is not bad, environment is cool and trendy, and food price is acceptable. Each person spent 20 pounds. I definitely go there again.

The cover pictures is from their website and I re-designed them. Some pictures are ready to share with you!

比利时餐厅 - Belgo

朋友们上周五一起去吃比利时菜,一来庆祝我朋友的生日,二来庆祝考试结束。餐厅听说在伦敦很出名,到9点多还有很多人在等位子就知道名气。餐厅招牌菜就是”淡菜”,我都忘记中文叫它呢,然后就是比利时啤酒拉!进入餐厅,时尚但随意,红色装饰,开放式厨房格局,蛮不错的!

我们点了一个啤酒牛肉,超浓的牛肉味和雪梨香味,牛肉滑而嫩!再来一个奶油鸡肉,香淡但一般;还有比利时香肠加土豆泥,滑滑的土豆泥,香辣的香肠;最后来个波菜芝士淡菜,超级好吃。我一般不吃淡菜的,但这种做法我就吃。哈!我点了比利时啤酒,朋友们点了草莓啤酒。吃完了,服务生强烈介绍要点比利时巧克力芝士蛋糕和百香果白巧克力摩丝(热带果摩丝)。食物十分野味,甜品不甜而入口香滑!超级不错的介绍,我还想再去呢。这是我朋友照的几张照片