Edited by Pete Collier, Saturday, 19 Jul 2014, 12:42
Well now… Yesterday I went on my usual jaunt around the Marylebone ‘village’ area and stopped off at the usual places…
This time, taking the tube to Baker Street station and not to Bond street which (although I go to most often these days) is having ‘work’ done and also gets a lot more busy than Baker Street does. This also gives me the chance to walk a different route - along past Madame Tussauds, through the grounds of Marylebone church, all the way along Marylebone High street, into Marylebone Lane and on to Wigmore Street. Then to Workshop Coffee for my first espresso which was a ‘fine columbian’! Reminding me of the final lines of the Steely Dan song ‘Hey Nineteen’ -
“The cuervo gold
The fine colombian
Make tonight a wonderful thing”
I doubt that they are referring to espresso coffee beans, but you never really know with Donald Fagen’s lyrics…
Swiftly followed by an espresso of the African/South American Cult of Done (v.16) blended variety and then on to K J West One to see (hi fi) Richard and admire more of the ‘fine hi fi’ that is available therein!
Eventually (after I'd consumed two more espressos ) and listened to some good ol’ rock… we made our way down to the Bruton Place Pizza Express eatery.
Another change to the routine here as I started the meal by having a ‘new’ Very spicey chicken and pepper version of their romana pizza and not my usual garlic bread - the first mistake of the day! About half way through eating this I realised that it was really Tooo hot for me and it made the ’Sloppy Guiseppe’ that I had to follow (yes, two…) seem very tame by comparison. I don’t think I’ll do that again in a hurry, althogh Richard liked the portion that I couldn’t manage, and wants to ‘go again’ as it were!
Still, this rounded off a good afternoon with all emporiums visited being up to their usual high standards.
See you soon,
The espresso guy
(The 'seven' refers to the number of espresso’s that I drank that afternoon!)
Seven... and a Very hot pizza!
Well now… Yesterday I went on my usual jaunt around the Marylebone ‘village’ area and stopped off at the usual places…
This time, taking the tube to Baker Street station and not to Bond street which (although I go to most often these days) is having ‘work’ done and also gets a lot more busy than Baker Street does. This also gives me the chance to walk a different route - along past Madame Tussauds, through the grounds of Marylebone church, all the way along Marylebone High street, into Marylebone Lane and on to Wigmore Street. Then to Workshop Coffee for my first espresso which was a ‘fine columbian’!
Reminding me of the final lines of the Steely Dan song ‘Hey Nineteen’ -
“The cuervo gold
The fine colombian
Make tonight a wonderful thing”
I doubt that they are referring to espresso coffee beans, but you never really know with Donald Fagen’s lyrics…
Swiftly followed by an espresso of the African/South American Cult of Done (v.16) blended variety and then on to K J West One to see (hi fi) Richard and admire more of the ‘fine hi fi’ that is available therein!
Eventually (after I'd consumed two more espressos
) and listened to some good ol’ rock… we made our way down to the Bruton Place Pizza Express eatery.
Another change to the routine here as I started the meal by having a ‘new’ Very spicey chicken and pepper version of their romana pizza and not my usual garlic bread - the first mistake of the day!
About half way through eating this I realised that it was really Tooo hot for me and it made the ’Sloppy Guiseppe’ that I had to follow (yes, two…) seem very tame by comparison. I don’t think I’ll do that again in a hurry, althogh Richard liked the portion that I couldn’t manage, and wants to ‘go again’ as it were!
Still, this rounded off a good afternoon with all emporiums visited being up to their usual high standards.
See you soon,
The espresso guy
(The 'seven' refers to the number of espresso’s that I drank that afternoon!)