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Food 2019 – Wine Dinner, Cigalon, London

Tuesday, 26th March 2019 – German Wine Dinner, Cigalon, London

I’m rather fond of Cigalon, on London’s Chancery Lane, and in particular I’m partial to both its monthly menu “test sessions”, which are usually on a Monday, and now of their wine dinners having attended a recent one. A reasonable (for London anyway) £50 per person for 4 courses and matching wines, it’s a pretty good bargain. When…

A weekend in March was spent sampling some of the worlds most exotic games right here in the city of London.

First up was a night of Mexican wresting at Lucha Britannia in Bethnal Green.  It’s essentially a back-alley warehouse where rather large and often camp men get mostly naked and hurl themselves at one another until exhaustion sets in and one surrenders.  On this night I don’t think I actually managed any of the beers on the list but as I made up for it by drinking lots of generic Stella and it was such a fun night I thought I should add a pic and some details.

After this night out I was suffering from a bit of a hangover but the modern sporting man must deal with this as the next evening I had a game of petanque to play.  Petanque, from what I now think I know, is French bowls.  By bowls though it doesn’t mean the 10 pin sort that is beloved by the young and American or the type of bowling that old men in the UK do.  Instead this involves throwing a metal ball down a gravel track trying to hit a smaller ball.  Sort of like the UK style bowling only without most of the rolling.  

Anyway this took place in a cool French style bar called Baranis which is around Chancery Lane.  Whilst there I also got to try a French Pils called Meteor which I’d not heard of before but was an excellent find.  On my pic below I think it is possible to see that I have attempted to balance out my hangover with some fast drinking to feel normal again with a result that in my head made sense but to everyone else screamed, drunk.

Last weekend was all about London’s obsession with France: read my reviews of Bistrot Bruno Loubet and the cocktail bar Baranis.

After working in front of it for nearly three months, I managed to have lunch at Bistrot Bruno Loubetbefore it closes to explore pastures new on April 6th. The carrots, chickpeas, coriander, lime and sultanas salad with goat’s curd (£6.5) was small but at the same time…