Lunch should have its own thread

[Silas Loom]

We are going to a restaurant for lunch to celebrate our 24th wedding anniversary. Plates are designed to be shared and the recommendation is three savoury dishes per person. So we can choose six from the following:

Oyster & blackcurrant
Cod's roe, quail egg & sorrel
Pickled radish
Finocchiona salami
Duck rillette & prune
Purple sprouting broccoli, pistachio & ewe's yogurt
Badger flame, Tropea & Jerusalem artichoke
Kohlrabi, apple & brown shrimp
Trout, fennel & bergamot
Crab, cara cara & sea beat
Clam, saffron & 'nduja
Cod, girolle & corn
Cep, Coco de Bretagne & parsley
Pork, muscat & collard greens
Beef, walnut & Spenwood

Puddings are more straightforward:

Pevensey Blue, Whin Yeats & fig
Fior di latte, blackberry & rose geranium
Chocolate torte & crème fraîche
Fragola sorbet & almond


Everything looks enticing. I reckon roe, duck, badger*, trout, clam, pork and beef would be good choices, and would not be excessive if we forego pudding, but I would welcome advice.

Edit on returning - final decision was roe/oyster, duck, kohlrabi, badger, cod, beef, torte, sorbet - and it was all very nice indeed. My wife was just pointing out that even while I was struggling to manoeuvre my chair out of their tiny lift and across a crowded restaurant to our table, they still addressed me as if I was a human (albeit one who needed help with a complicated spatial problem), rather than speaking over me to her, as staff invariably do in hospitals and shops and restaurants here in the suburbs.

Sessions Arts Club in Clerkenwell heartily endorsed.

*Disappointingly, some sort of beetroot

 

[sojourner]

Tinned sardines, homemade red cabbage kraut, Romaine leaves, garlic-stuffed green olives.

Pineapple and a tangerine.

 

[Siouxsie]

Leek & potato soup with garlic and herb croutons.
Toffee fudge doughnut.

 

[sojourner]

Beans on toast with lashings of hot sauce.

Mango.

 

[Siouxsie]

Chunky pea & ham soup with a crusty roll..it was ever so tasty
Another toffee fudge doughnut
I can't get warm today and I needed the extra padding.....that's my excuse and I'm sticking to it....bit like the toffee on my fingers

 

[Siouxsie]

Lasagne, garlic bread and a side salad.

 

[Numbers]

2 tablespoons of extra virgin olive oil, handful of walnuts, 2 boiled eggs.

 

[furluxor]

Camembert on rye crackers, I'm too underslept (and possibly hungover) to do better.

2 tablespoons of extra virgin olive oil, handful of walnuts, 2 boiled eggs.

Olive oil in a shot glass, no doubt! Yours is the weirdest lunch.

 

[sojourner]

Leftover macaroni cheese

Apple and a tangerine.

 

[Numbers]

Camembert on rye crackers, I'm too underslept (and possibly hungover) to do better.



Olive oil in a shot glass, no doubt! Yours is the weirdest lunch.

Not at all, a lovely combo and very healthy.

 

[Siouxsie]

Fish pie with carrots and broccoli.
Apple crumble and custard.

 

[danny la rouge]

Lunch in D’Jaconelli. Great stuff.




Full Scottish for Mrs LR, Mac and chips for me. Wonderful.

 

[sojourner]

Leftover leek n tater soup, big wodge of buttered 8 seed wholemeal home-baked bread.

Tangerine and red grapes.

 

[Siouxsie]

Ham salad roll.
Wagon wheel.....when did they shrink!

 

[Siouxsie]

Carry on laughing sojourner ....there's nothing more disappointing than thinking you're getting a nice big mouthful and you end up sadly lacking!

Thick cream of vegetable soup and warm crusty roll.
Raspberry & white chocolate muffin.

 

[sojourner]

Carry on laughing sojourner ....there's nothing more disappointing than thinking you're getting a nice big mouthful and you end up sadly lacking!

Thick cream of vegetable soup and warm crusty roll.
Raspberry & white chocolate muffin.

Your gob got bigger, that's all

 

[Siouxsie]

Your gob got bigger, that's all

(sharp intake of breath ) How very dare you, I've never been so insulted!*

* this maybe a lie

 

[Siouxsie]

Cheese, onion and Branston toastie.
Fruit salad and cream.

 

[Siouxsie]

Fish. chips, mushy peas and gravy

 

[Skinny Ethel]

2 cumberland sausages in a bun.

 

[Siouxsie]

Hot mackerel & potato salad.
Apple & blackberry crumble with custard.

 

[sojourner]

Hot mackerel & potato salad.
Apple & blackberry crumble with custard.

You have absolutely fucking amazing lunches.

 

[sojourner]

I had a Lunch of Kings today too. Leftover leek and borlotti bean gratin, steamed sprouts and gravy. So so good.

2 tangerines.

 

[Skinny Ethel]

Cup of tea 4 gingernuts and a fag.

 

[Saffy]

Still very much loving my toastie maker.
I had a leftover chili and cheese toastie and a pint of squash.

 

[polly]

I normally have nothing these days but a colleague is at a fancy conference and keeps sending me photos of the free food so I had to do something to make myself feel better. So I had a fish finger sandwich with cheese, mayo, ketchup, hot sauce and lettuce, with homemade mushy peas. And she's lifted me some biscuits

 

[Siouxsie]

You have absolutely fucking amazing lunches.

Thank you but it is all down to the canteen with our lovely, cheeky cook and her staff. They do the work all I have to do is choose the healthiest option on the day....not always easy when the smells start tempting me from 10.30 on!
Most days I'm good, some days I think sod, it, I'll run an extra few miles tonight

 

[Siouxsie]

Pasta Carbonara.
Stewed plums with custard.

 

[Skinny Ethel]

Sausage bun with tomatoes.

 

[moose]

Avocado, doused in so much Tabasco, lemon and truffle salt I'm not sure I need the pear at all.