Kad filmas bus geras zinojom iskart - The Untouchables, bet uzskaitom ir bendra patyrima. Siaip Peckham mums nekelia jokiu sentimentu, is tu keliu kartu, kai teko pro sali vaziuot ir/ar kazka girdet, greiciau priesingai. Vardan tikslumo, Peckham vis dar yra tokia pati bit of a dump and it's nowhere near up-and-coming. Peckham Rye - jau truputi kita pasaka, ir ypac, nuo stoties i desine ir link Denmark Hill/Dulwich: ten ir graziu namu terasos, idomios vietines parduotuves, keli restoranai, barai.  Viskas kaip priklauso gentrifikuotai vietai. Personal glance (more of a selfie) the following Saturday :)

Be naminio valgomo gerio, Asta su Vaidu mus pakviete i Pazaislio (apy)naujo viesbucio restorana. Vasario 16 mes ten buvom vieni (!!!). Nusedom valgomajam, kad jaukiau truputi butu, nors, vargu, ar butume aplinkinius ir siaip pastebeje. Velai valgyt susiruosem, tai rinkomes is karstu uzkandziu meniu, bet ju uzteko. Turbut reik but laaaabai alkanam, kad pilna vakariene iveiktum.

Truputi laiko uzteko ir Vilniuj. Vidury savaites, vidury dienos ir pas Lina Samena laisvos vietos yra. Dangus!!! Dabar as noriu pietaut tik ten. Nerealiai draugiska aplinka ir toks laisvas oras. Skanu viskas, ka duoda, ir akiai malonu stebet kaip lekstes pildosi.

Taip jau isejo, kad pies filma pirmadieni nebuvo laiko pavalgyt, o po, jau kazkaip nesinorejo smarkiai saukstu darbuotis. Tuomet lieka tik dabar populiarus tapas dydzio porcijas duodantis restoranai arba kita banga - japoniskos sriubos. Tapas buvom sestadieni su Egle ir Petru, tai su Jessica stojom i eile prie udon. Koya - siuo metu, sako, geriausiai moka istempt tokius makaronus. Cia irgi laukiantys laukia uz duru kieme (keista tendencija, juolab, kad Londonas ne amzinos silumos krastas), o visas nedidelis naudingas plotas valgytojams.
Smagu mums, kad pirmadieni nelyja, o ir eile, kai mudvi atzingsniuojam, jau zenkliai sutrumpejus. Meniu - is makaronu ir ryziu (donburi), ir dar keli specials, bet mes uz makaronus siandien. Udon siaip jau yra kvieciu makaronai zuvies sultiny ir pagal nora kokie nors priedai ant virsaus. Buna silti makaronai siltam sultiny, salti makaronai saltam sultiny, silti makaronai saltam sultiny, salti makaronai siltam sultiny. Turbut ir dar kokiu nors buna. Zodziu, sesios zasys su sesiais zasyciais... Mes viena silta-silta uzsisakem su rukyta skumbre ir juodu pupeliu ugliais, o kita su pjaustyta ir malta antiena. Idealus maistas - velyvai vakarienei. Galetu auksarankes(iai) turbut ir namuose kazka panasaus pasidaryt, bet negi tu namie sriuba valgysi su pagaliukais. Vargu. Taip va, puse japoniskos virtuves dziaugsmo ir dingsta.

So we stumbled across Celine and Jesse trilogy(1,2 & 3). Seriously?!?!  EVERYONE (apart from us) knew it, but it was the discovery of at least a decade in it's field for us. Not much is happening in this movie, but it's witty, it's funny, it's soooo down to earth.  Immediate classics and will be re-watched many times.

On we went to Noel Coward's Private Lives - the most recent production at Gielgud Theatre with Toby Stephens and Anna Chancellor as Elliot and Amanda. It's jolly funny, minus of course those few odd lines like 'Some women should be struck regularly, like gongs' and scenes of domestic violence, but it's in the script and since the script is from 1930s you might let it carry on with some extra booing, that audience happily did each time characters were too of present day track.

These days in London you would be spoiled for choice of area, venue, film and/or food, however they all aimed at one - to bring back old school movie watching experience, to show what was there before big cinemas took over.

I am tempted to roll my eyes at the hostess when she unlocks(!) the door for us. All that persistent reminding she'll need a table by 7.30 and we are the only peeps in the restaurant. It feels a little bit awkward - 'are we disturbing' awkward - but when it fills to the roof by 6pm you start to see the point. As it recently became a habit - I go for pre- meal cocktail. SEH has a good choice and at least few of them are being served not in a usual glassware. It's meant to create a certain mood and it does (we are not even past the bread & butter yet). All dishes arrive quick and with spot on service. What stands out the  most for me is duck wrapped in ham served with egg that's (possibly) been boiled, rolled in bread crumbs and then fried but not too much so you can dunk fries in it's liquid yolk.

Desserts are irresistible! Although, we might have weakness for slightly awkward matches: honey jelly (???), sour cream sorbet with fennel, all sorts of crumbles and, haven knows, what else. We didn't linger over it for too long, we had to rush to the evening of laugh at gay crew of Mexico bound air plane. Hilarious movie it was!

Net dziaugsmas, kad vakarienei paskutines dvi kedes Barrafina'oj gavom kazkaip prigeso. Mes cia su savo kasdienem 'problemom' kaip/kur skaniau pavalgyt?, ar spesim, kol visos vietos bus uzimtos?, ar teks, ilgoj eilej kiurksot?, o cia va, kaip zmonems buvo. Ir be sarkazmo.

Bet valgyt buvo labai skanu :) Dar vienas (bet siuo metu turbut pats geriausias) tapas baras Londone. Yra ir trumpas pastovus meniu is zinomu tapas, bet dauguma uzsisakineja tai, kas surasyta ranka ant atskiro lapo. I Barrafina visi suka ragaut tu kasdien kitokiu patiekalu.  Mes, iskyrus Padron pipirus, viska irgi emem nuo to truputi riebaluoto lapo. Akys visko nori daugiau, nei skrandis gali pakelt, tuo labiau, kad matai, kaip pries tave sukas shefas.  Visa laime, kad lekstutes pries nosi atsiranda greit. Pipirai, zuvis, tortilia, sardines, jauni porai su pomidoru tyres padazu(Calçots - katalonietiska tradicija), jautiena - viena geriau uz kita. Abi gailejomes neparagave tik paciu raudoniausiu (naturali spalva, nevirtos) kreveciu, kurios Barafina'oj graksciai gulinejo ant ledo. Valgyt jas reik zalias su trupuciu citrinos sulciu, o tadien mums ranka nekilo £18 moket uz viena situ balerinu! Gal kitakart :)

Solidarizuojames, nes ka cia, nusipelnem gyventi geriau. Nuo sito pirmadienio! Ir isejom laimes ieskot iskart po darbo.

O eileeeee prie laimes!!!! Gerai, kad dalintoju daug ir dirba is peties. Pirmiausiai atnese lassi: man mango, Jessica'i sweet. Niam niam. Geriau nei pieniskas kokteilis, ir toks i tema, net prie curry. Virtuve - Punjabi. Meniu dauguma pagrindiniu patiekalu pavadinime turi zodi 'karahi': karahi chicken, karahi lamb, karahi whatever... Kol eilej stovejom bandem speliot ar tas 'karahi' turi, ka bendro su Karachiu. Pasitaiko gi visokiu 'nelaimingu atsitikimu' su spaustuvem. Pasirodo, ne miesto cia pavadinimas blogai parasytas, o puodas, kur viskas troskinama, taip vadinas. Hahahah. Bet slove tam puodui. Viska iki paskutinio laso su nan isdazem, pries tai tokiu cirskanciu avienos sonkauliu slaptu skystimeliu marinuotu, restorano pasididziavimu apibarstytu, dar irgi pakramsnojom. Net ir kai saskaita gavom, laimes dalintoja vistiek norejom isbuciuot, bet jis skubejo-laiko neturejo, o mes ir pacios velavom. Velavom Osamos medzioklen. Ir va tai tau, bin Laden had been found and defeated by a woman!!!