Edited by Pete Collier, Sunday, 28 Apr 2013, 11:04
All in all it was a good afternoon Yesterday in Marylebone Village although it did start out looking a bit doubtful. Not only was Richard out and about delivering and setting-up speakers and therefore not in the shop, the hail and rain in the early afternoon looked set to spoil things. By the time I got to Bond Street though (via the underground) things were looking up. It turned out to be quite pleasant in the sunny bits and there was no further rain ‘till after six o’clock!
Whilst waiting for Richard to complete his various ‘installations’, I spent an hour or so wandering around the area and did indeed venture into Workshop Coffee (Wigmore Street). This is something that I have been meaning to do ever since finding out how good it is (supposed to be), how close it was to KJ West One and that there are three or four Pizza Express places nearby. I had two espressos that were very different from the usual Costa/Starbucks (and other high-street) offerings… but I will need to re-visit this one and try out the other beans they sometimes use. Although a very good coffee, I have to say that this one was as bit too ‘fruity’ for me and not enough of a dark ‘chocolate’ flavour.
So, we ended up in the Thayer Street Pizza Express where not only did I enjoy good garlic bread and pizza I got through another two espressos. I would say that this one (much like Luton) is one of the more consistent of their restaurants if not quite always the best it could be… Which leaves Baker Street 3rd out of the ones we currently eat at - 4th if the independent Silver Dollar(Rayners Lane) is included, which may well be our next pizza venue in a few weeks time.
Yay - another good Pizza!
All in all it was a good afternoon Yesterday in Marylebone Village although it did start out looking a bit doubtful. Not only was Richard out and about delivering and setting-up speakers and therefore not in the shop, the hail and rain in the early afternoon looked set to spoil things. By the time I got to Bond Street though (via the underground) things were looking up. It turned out to be quite pleasant in the sunny bits and there was no further rain ‘till after six o’clock!
Whilst waiting for Richard to complete his various ‘installations’, I spent an hour or so wandering around the area and did indeed venture into Workshop Coffee (Wigmore Street). This is something that I have been meaning to do ever since finding out how good it is (supposed to be), how close it was to KJ West One and that there are three or four Pizza Express places nearby. I had two espressos that were very different from the usual Costa/Starbucks (and other high-street) offerings… but I will need to re-visit this one and try out the other beans they sometimes use. Although a very good coffee, I have to say that this one was as bit too ‘fruity’ for me and not enough of a dark ‘chocolate’ flavour.
So, we ended up in the Thayer Street Pizza Express where not only did I enjoy good garlic bread and pizza I got through another two espressos
. I would say that this one (much like Luton) is one of the more consistent of their restaurants if not quite always the best it could be… Which leaves Baker Street 3rd out of the ones we currently eat at - 4th if the independent Silver Dollar(Rayners Lane) is included, which may well be our next pizza venue in a few weeks time.