Sunday Lunch at the Princess of Shoreditch

On the hottest day of the year so far we went for a walk over to Shoreditch and stopped for lunch at The Princess. Here they serve the best roasts I have had in London. The dining room is lovely and the service is good too. Our roast beef was great and all the veg were nicely cooked which can be a challenge - I normally find that one or two components are less than perfectly cooked, but this was not the case here. Best of all was pudding. Very impressive standard for a pub. We had apricot and golden syrup sponge pudding with blood orange sorbet. I mean, how good does that sound? Must go back soon and work my way through that dessert menu.

Monday night at the Local

Our local pub is the Royal Oak on Columbia Road. Not that many years ago it was a scary place with blacked out windows where people would end up at the end of a night out only to emerge from those doors sometime the following afternoon. Now it is a nice place to have a pint and something to eat, even though it still gets pretty raucous on a Friday night when it is packed with cool young things. The dining room upstairs is a bit more civilised.

On Monday night we stopped by for fish and chips and still made it home in time for University Challenge. Perfect.

Rotherhithe

                       

Four stops from Shoreditch High Street on the East London Line is Rotherhithe. On Saturday we went for a stroll along the river, then stopped for a lunchtime pint at the Mayflower. The pub is named after the ship which left from here for New England in 1620. On the way home we passed this field of crocuses which I am sure will be completely full of flowers in just another week or two. And on my feet I had shoes but no socks. Spring is here for sure!