Things

[wildeabandon]

Good things:

Eating reallyreallyreallyreally good food at Bacchus, one course of which has outdone both oysters and chocolate covered strawberries as most erotic food experience ever.

Having a lover within walking distance, who you can call and invite over on very short notice when arriving home after the above. I've not had that since leaving Cambridge, and I've missed it, a lot.

Spending a couple of hours figuring out how to do something quite tricky, finding a rather nifty way of doing it, and feeling smug at levels of sql-fu.

Bad thing:

Realising half a day later that it was completely unnecessary because you'd misread the question. Bah.

Comments

[the-elyan.livejournal.com]

That restaurant sounds very good - am beginning to feel the need of a really good meal out. Am tempted by the St John's, that Marcus mentioned.

Talking of restautrants, if you ever feel inclined to come up to Cambridge again, could I tempt you to try Graffiti (http://www.hotelfelix.co.uk/fmi/restaurant/index.html)? May not be up to your exalted standards, but I've heard most impressed mutterings of it.

[libellum.livejournal.com]

Re: the second thing: rah. That is very good news indeed.

I really want to eat oysters again soon... I've still only had them once. I wonder if I could afford to take Chris to Bacchus for his birthday?

[wildeabandon.livejournal.com]

As restaurants-with-tasting-menus go, it's not that expensive, but still quite pricey in the general scheme of things. Our meal cost £140 for two, for 5 courses with wine flight, a glass of champagne each, and a G&T for me whilst I was waiting. I'm not sure if that included a tip or not.

[libellum.livejournal.com]

Ta :) You can get the tasting menu for £35 a head if you're happy to eat early. That plus wine would probably only come to £100 total, which I could definitely afford. Tempting! :)

[borusa.livejournal.com]

That's what we had (35 a head, plus the wine accompaniment, which was 25 a head). And the 140 did include service.

[libellum.livejournal.com]

Ah, okay. Is the wine accompaniment worth it? That seems rather steep, although I remain tempted simply because the menu looks so lush :)

Gastronaut, geek. What is not to like?

[hairyears.livejournal.com]

I've just seen the menu: yum! Must find someone to drag there: feel free to recommend suitable victims. Or even unsuitable ones.

What was the SQL trickiness? I spend far too much of my day with this kind of thing and new tricks are worth knowing.