Simpson's in the Strand

My dessert/ "pudding": Treacle in a vanilla bean custard. Scrumptious!!!

My (great) great aunt and uncle

Sorry for the lack of recent posts- school has picked up, and I've joined a Vis Moot team, which has been taking up a lot of my time (and is wholly boring to blog/read about).

Tonight though, I had some amazing British food with my great uncle Joe and great aunt Diane, who just happened to be in London. I caught them on the tail end of a 3 week England/Wales journey, and they took me out to dinner at an amazing restaurant, Simpson's in the Strand. We ate English bread pudding, Scottish roast beef, and treacle until we could barely walk out. My favorite part was when the chefs (in tall white hats) wheeled out the roast beef to the table and cut it in front of us.

My great aunt and uncle have been going to Simpson's since the '60's and filled me in on how the restaurant has changed since then (the beef was terrible then- but people dressed better. A coat and tie were mandated, not simply suggested). Tonight, the restaurant was beautiful and full of history. The likes of Vincent Van Gogh, Charles Dickens, Sherlock Holmes, and George Bernard Shaw have dined there. It was opened as a chess club in the 1820's, and has continued to serve traditional British food until today. And let me tell you, it was delicious- which is not what you will always hear about British food (typically it is described as "bland"... to put it politely).

It was great to see some familiar faces, and tonight I had the best meal I have had since arriving in London! What a terrific night on the town!