Another Birthday Girl
Dorothy's birthday. We had another excellent dinner at Arbutus. It was heavily booked, even on a Monday and we had the choice of 6 or 8.15pm. We chose 8.15pm but in fact I would go early in future as the place was absolutely full of people, as I do rather like a quiet restaurant.
We had Cornish crab, which was excellent, some razor clam and other seafood fish cakes, and mistakenly Dorothy had ordered Porchetta which was apparently very fatty and rather disgusting, so it was sent back and replaced with the fish cakes.
Mains were Bavette of beef, basically huge pieces of tender beef served with green cabbage and pommes dauphinoise, and I had the special, an excellent cottage pie. Julian could not manage any pudding, but I had chocolate 'soup' with ice cream, and Dorothy had an excellent cherry clafoutis. We drank champagne since it was a birthday and finished with coffee.
Julian and Dorothy have invited several friends tomorrow night to a rather less expensive venue to celebrate their birthdays, then Julian's birthday will be spent in Paris, so basically there will be a week of celebrations.
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