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This'll be a quick one. My latest monthly dinner with ![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
borusa.
We had planned to go to Drunken Monkey last month, but we never managed to make a date work, which I can't entirely complain about, because it meant I wasn't restricted to the veggie options by my Lenten fasting.
I started with the Lavender Lady cocktail - camp? who? me? It was delightful though - gin, triple sec, lavender syrup, lemon juice, egg white - I think I'll be recreating soon. RM had a beer.
We ordered a fairly full platter of food off the bat, with particular highlights being the honey chicken, the drunken ribs, and the crab meat and pork dumplings. Our assessment was - at least half as good again as Ping Pong, at about 3/4 the price*. Certainly it was enough to order another wave of food, and the Pak Choi that turned up then was divine.
Not every dish was perfect, and there's no doubt you could get better dim sum in Chinatown at lunchtime, but for somewhere which serves in the evening it's hard to do better, and the cocktail menu is a big plus.
Enough food to leave two very good eaters feeling replete, plus two drinks each and service came in just under £75
*this was confirmed when I had lunch at Ping Pong today. It was, y'know, fine.
borusa. We had planned to go to Drunken Monkey last month, but we never managed to make a date work, which I can't entirely complain about, because it meant I wasn't restricted to the veggie options by my Lenten fasting.
I started with the Lavender Lady cocktail - camp? who? me? It was delightful though - gin, triple sec, lavender syrup, lemon juice, egg white - I think I'll be recreating soon. RM had a beer.
We ordered a fairly full platter of food off the bat, with particular highlights being the honey chicken, the drunken ribs, and the crab meat and pork dumplings. Our assessment was - at least half as good again as Ping Pong, at about 3/4 the price*. Certainly it was enough to order another wave of food, and the Pak Choi that turned up then was divine.
Not every dish was perfect, and there's no doubt you could get better dim sum in Chinatown at lunchtime, but for somewhere which serves in the evening it's hard to do better, and the cocktail menu is a big plus.
Enough food to leave two very good eaters feeling replete, plus two drinks each and service came in just under £75
*this was confirmed when I had lunch at Ping Pong today. It was, y'know, fine.
