A sunny and warm day in London is an odd phenomenon; when this happens it is boradcasted everywhere from the news to social media, the paper, the radio, and it becomes the sole topic of conversation for days - this is not rare as talks about the weather in this country are a must anways, and if there is anything that you need to keep up with, that is the weather forecast.
When the sun comes out you have to ensure you have a good plan ahead of you to enjoy the outdoors, mainly because that plan will be the only thing your colleagues will be interested in when you're back in the office the following day.
We had planned with some friends to go out for lunch at some restaurant with an outside sitting area. Also, as we some times miss home, and food is important to us - reflected more clearly on the post about Jose - we decided to go for Spanish.
The restaurant is called Cigala (crayfish) and it's located just at the back of Russell Square, in a really nice street with reduced traffic, full of nice boutiques and pubs. And even though they don't take reservations for tables in the terrace, we were lucky enough to get a table outside and enjoy 3 hours of tapas, paella, dessert, pacharan and amazing conversation under the sun.I was ecstatic when I realised that rice (paella) was on the menu, and even happier when I got a bottle of cold Mahou - a brand of beer from my home town :-D. Really worth to go and try the restaurant out, especially on a Sunday when they have a special menu: you get 2 tapas, 1 main course - if you like any of the rices you need to be at least 2 people -, dessert and coffee for just £16. Then you can easily spend another £16 in drinks.
We'll definitely be back because we felt like a Sunday at home having paella, which is the typical dish for the Sunday lunch.
DETAILS:
Cigala - www.cigala.co.uk/ - 54 Lamb's Conduit Street, London WC1N 3LW
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