Took Bus 23 toward Mayfair for our rescheduled full English at a Gordon Ramsey restaurant. (Initially scheduled for prior Sunday.) Passed by Robert Peel's former home, among other notable residences in Mayfair.
One restaurant entrance featured a refined, elegant floral arch...
The other entrance featured a super tacky tourist display! This is not one of Ramsey's elite restaurants, nor one of his chain concepts, but rather a one off in a hotel.
I selected this restaurant mainly because it offered a veg full English... but upon arrival we were told it was no longer on the menu. So they simply gave her a regular with no meat... charged full price too. The eggs were as runny as we expected given Chef Ramsey's rather famous for his egg technique... but they were better than expected. The blood sausage was sampled by both of us... wasn't horrible but really saw no reason to make/eat it. The restaurant was short staffed and there were many problems with service at nearby tables so we considered ourselves lucky to have avoided all that trouble.
Short walk up to Oxford Street for our next bus... this ride gave Mei Mei a view of the shopping district. We jumped off and had a quick walk past the Le Cordon Bleu culinary school's London location.
And then a couple blocks over to the British Museum, which was an amazing building with amazing displays, many that clearly stated the item was taken during a war/occupation or part of a war settlement!
Managed a bit of shopping in the gift store and then we got on the brand new Elizabeth line. This opened up in the spring and it goes all the way to Heathrow. But we jumped off at Paddington.
Heading out again, and all smiles because it's the first time we'll need our rain jackets. Amazing, amazing luck with the weather the entire trip. We had just a short walk to our Sunday Roast at the Cleveland Arms pub. Selected because it was so close to the hotel and because it offered a veg option.
But... the veg option was cauliflower with a curry and Mei Mei has decided she doesn't like curry very much so she went with the chicken. And by that, we both received half a chicken and had so much meat on it! Roasted potatoes, Yorkshire pudding, carrot and turnip root veggies and of course gravy. Yum.
She's stuffed!
We walked home in a light rain, but we were able to cut through the train station so we were outside very briefly.
Back in her room doing some stretching! And sadly, some packing up.
