Easter Sunday

Posted on 2012/04/15 12:34:04 (April 2012).

[Sunday 8th April 2012]
I felt like visiting the newly reopened Kensington Palace this afternoon, so we headed in that direction, thinking we could also have a late lunch or afternoon tea at the Orangery. When we got there though we were a bit put off by the long queues and so decided to go elsewhere for lunch, which meant we also went off the idea of going to Kensington Palace. Another time.

Instead we had lunch at an Italian restaurant called Portobello, which a friend-of-a-friend of Chie's had recommended to us at "picnic" we went to last year. It wasn't bad - I was particularly pleased to see a spaghetti dish with bianchetto truffles on the menu. I think it has been a good year for bianchetto truffles, there have been a lot of them about in London (I've never really noticed them before this year) and they seem comparatively very reasonably priced.

We strolled back through the park after that and decided to pop into the Victoria and Albert Museum for a bit on the way home. We both rather like the ironwork gallery, I'm not really sure why - maybe at least partly because it's on the upper floor and it's a bit quieter.

For dinner I made a risotto with morels and porcini, using some dried morels I'd bought in France. It came out particularly well, I wish I'd taken a photo or something.

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