She says:We're back! The amazing month travelling around Peru and popping into Bolivia is over *sad face*... but, attempting to look on the bright side, we can now start the search for restaurant #5. After trying breaded cow's udder (very nice) and bbqed beef hearts on a stick (not quite so nice) and walking right on by the tripe stew street seller, I'm tempted to find a #5 that does offal, for a compare and contrast. Unfortunately renowned offal revivalist St John lives at #26 St John Street, so can't shoehorn a review of that restaurant into this blog.
However, Google has turned up some interesting, not very offally, options, all out of London.
The Five Arrows Hotel near Aylesbury in Buckinghamshire sounds thoroughly intriguing. It 'stands at the gates of Waddesdon Manor, which houses one of the finest collections of French decorative arts in the world'. I'm totally up for a weekend away in this comfortable-looking and reasonably priced country inn. We could easily combine it with a trip up the M40 to see any one of our sets of parents.
Option two and it's worth visiting this restaurant's website just for the noise! The Five Rivers in Leamington Spa is a contemporary Indian restaurant, which would be nice for a change after the raft of European places we tried so far. But I'm not sure how much I want to go to Leamington Spa again. Went to see Richard Ashcroft's cousin rehearse with his band there once. They didn't go anywhere so I fear another wasted journey.
Even further afield is d'Vijff Vlieghen, which the internet reliably informs me means The 5 Flies in Dutch. Apparently a bit of a tourist trap in medieval Amsterdam, it still holds plenty of charm and we have friends in Amsterdam who we've been meaning to visit for ages...
Itchy feet, itchy feet!
