w/c 11th Feb
by MattBrown Posted on February 15, 2008 at 4:47pm
Tuesday:
Big up to the Adlink posse – had a 2 hour review meeting, with good fruit salads and smoothies, followed a fantastic day out as you’ll see below:
- Lunch @ The Square – very posh place, lots of game, sweetbreads (I still think they are testes – no one had them all the same), sommelier (bloke who upsells wine), a very nice Pouilly – good work young Iapino… I ordered the skate salad, followed by the Dover Sole – the starter was definitely the winner there.
- On to the Absolut Vodka Bar on Heddon St, where first we had a drink in the bar – I went for the Caparinha, there were other clever drinks on display, then we donned the capes and went below. It wasn’t cold to begin with, but it got cold, couple of interesting vodka based drinks, in glasses made of Ice – wooooooooooow.
- Then, we went to Momo for Champers and mint tea, and a Shish pipe – that was coolThen… we went to Camden for a few drinks (including an array of white and black sambuca)
- Theeeen… we went to the Jazz Cafe – Fred Wesley and the new JBs – more wine, food, top seats, and great view – we got into trouble for Chris’ voice – way too loud for the aficionados.
- Theeeeeeeeeeeeen… we went to the Good Mixer for a last hurrah – I had a well known cocktail there – the Snakebite and Black, Justine was starting to waver – think it was all the dancing she’d done.
- Finally a £40 cab home – top night
Big up to Adlink Group – Chris G, Nicky, Pete and Andreas!
Wednesday:
Big up to Atlas!!
After a top presentation from Ciaran at Atlas on the merits of AAP (or MAA, CA – can’t remember) – multiple attribution analytics, Melissa and Kalpa and Suzanne and Anna took Justine and Michelle and me to Zuma in Knightsbridge – an amazing place, sister restaurant to Roca on Charlotte St and it didn’t disappoint.
Again a top wine, oh we had a glass of bubbly first to celebrate Melissa’s birthday – the big 3-Oh! The conversation topics were vast and disparate – from the various ways of childbirth, to painkilling, to weddings, and honeymoons, and puddings – wow we did puddings…!! And no man-bating!
I felt like Mel Gibson in What Women Want – I learned shit – top!
The food was incredible – soft shelled crab, sashimi, lots of clever vegetarian stuff like eggplant surprise (no meat), avocado surprise (ditto), and some amazing black cod, fillet beef, smoked chicken, and then onto the puddings – amazing!
So big up to Anna, Melissa and co. and good luck with the baby thing!