British Museum - Well... I took a few pictures in there, but they're all sort of random cool things, and the picture I tried to post of the Rosetta Stone wasn't really working, so I'll have to hold off on that for now. But know that it was awesome full of some really cool very very very old things!
Lunch afterwards was most excellent! Kitchen Italia is where we decided to have lunch and it we all decided afterwards that going there was a good idea!
The design of this place was awesome! They accounted for every little detail! The table display was so very cool! We sat in a huge booth (it fit all 8 of us) and there was a huge natural wooden table. As you can see below, there was an indentation in the middle of every table that held the assorted olive oils (kinds like basil, E.V.O.O., rosemary, lemon, chili pepper, etc.) fresh ground salt and pepper, fresh parmesan cheese, and two live basil plants at the end of each table. We ordered some bread to start off with, and I started whipping up different mixtures of oils, like lemon olive oil, pepper, parmesan cheese, and drizzling that over the bread and tearing a basil leaf from the plant and placing that right on top...... SO GOOD!! Why don't people do stuff like this everywhere in the U.S.?? I'm sure there must be a few cool places like this... but in London they're EVERYWHERE!
Unfortunately I can't remember the name of my dish right now, but it had tiger shrimp, with a tomato based sauce with fresh basil on top. It was simple, but most delicious. The presentation was quite impressive as well!
COOL STORE OF THE DAY:
I couldn't get this picture to rotate unfortunately but this was the entrance, a very cool staircase surrounded by hundreds of antique sewing machines....SO cool!
Everything in the store is antique, down to the clothing. Of course its brand new clothes, but they distress everything like I'd never seen before. I wanted to buy something here but I think the style is so specific here that one article of clothing would just look out of place by itself, not to mention t-shirts were about 60 pounds.... almost $100.00. Not exactly in my budget, but I sure loved walking around and taking pictures of the place!
Boo, this picture didn't rotate either, but I LOVE these chairs! They were in their shoe department.
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