Prezzo

Another long day ended without lunch and really long walking, and because it's either we eat at Tower Hills or back home at Stanmore (and my hubby wasn't really confident eating outside his comfort zone), we decided to eat somewhere closer to home, which is at Prezzo

Location: Within Stanmore, across the street from...the local nursery, I guess? :/

Setting: A really nice feel to it, almost Italian in a sense, but still with the London flair in between, though they really need to crank up the air-conditioning a little bit

Random shots of trinkets around us

The waitresses there were really perky and helpful, especially this one named Anne, who has a bit of a thick Italian accent and her voice was prolly a few octaves higher than most, which makes her sound kinda cute, LOL!

We has Appletiser in London!! Since this drink is being banned in Brunei for no apparent reason, we savor the chance to drink this super rare drink

My hubby's starters, which is garlic bread with cheese

My starters of calamari

My hubby's garlic bread was pretty chewy, in a good way. It's almost like eating pizza actually, not the usual garlic bread we would always eat. My calamari was not so bad either, nice and Q, pretty chewy, though I was expecting a bit of a crunchy batter, but it's good. Still good

My hubby's spaghetti and meatballs

My spaghetti with King prawns

Thank goodness we ordered the classic portion because it was really huge for a normal-sized meal, as usual. My hubby's spaghetti and meatballs was amazing. The meatballs were really juicy inside, unlike the meatballs done in Brunei where it's either too dry or too soggy.

My King prawns spaghetti came out interestingly without the shells. I was actually expecting it to be spaghetti then served with King prawns in its shell. Still it was really delicious. The spaghetti was cooked to perfection and the sauce is very flavorful, and the prawns, oh my god, the prawns were so fresh and juicy, you can literally feel the crunch when you bite into it. It was THAT fresh! And best of all, it had a very good helping of chopped spring onions in it, and it was amazing!

The perky waitress asked if we want dessert, and it wouldn't be nice to say no, or end it with just that, so we ordered just one dessert to share amongst ourselves, just in case they came with a crazy-ass portion again.

Our hot fudge chocolate cake with vanilla ice-cream

Omilord, the cake was just amazing! So fudgy, so chocolatey! It was amazing! Packed full of flavour and they both go really well, the thick fudge chocolate with the vanilla ice-cream. It tastes even better than chocolate lava pudding with ice-cream. It was THAT amazing. Loved every bite of it, even though I ended up super-stuffed.

All in all, the best Italian food I've eaten so far, the best pasta ever!

Overall rating: 9.5/10

Angus Steak Houses

After a really looooooooooooong day of waiting for Hugh Jackman to make our life complete, we decided to have dinner within the area, and after much deliberating, and a bit of craving for steak, we decided to eat at Angus Steak Houses

Location: Leicester Square, and apparently it has another branch just about a few blocks away! Wow, really that popular, huh?

Due to my dead camera and phone and my hubby's dying phone, I could only implore him to help me take the name of the restaurant and the food, thus what you see before you:

My hubby's 10oz rib-eye steak with mash potatoes and boiled vegs, with Diet Coke for drink

My 10oz rib-eye steak with mash potatoes and tomato and onion salad, with Fanta for drink

Apparently side dishes and sauce are sold separately, and if you didn't order it or if the waiter did not mention it to you, they most likely would not give it to you. There was unlimited refills if you ordered soft drinks, and the portion is, wow, really HUGE! I mean, seriously, it was HUGE. Thank God we didn't get the bigger portion of 17oz (or was it 24oz?), or we would've been stuffed, because even the side dishes were insane!

But still, the steak is nice and tender, albeit a little dry since we didn't order the sauce (sauce cost 2 pounds~! DX), and the side dishes were very flavourful. A very satisfying meal, a little bit too filling. Man, I wonder how do Westerners handle this kind of portion in their food. No wonder they're a little round on the edges

Overall rating: 7.5/10

Ted's Fish and Chips

After a really looooooooooong walk around Tower of London (but barely even finishing it), we decided to have our long awaited lunch, and we decided to try another form of authentic fish and chip meal, which led us to Ted's Fish and Chips

Nothing much to take pictures of really, since it's more or less a roadside stall, but it's definitely the kind of fish and chips I was hoping to eat, eating from a package from a roadside stall with all the works. They have a small stand beside their shop (that I totally forgot to take photo of) where all the utensils, sauces and stuff are. I decided to smother it with vinegar and pepper, while my hubby, instead of pepper, he used salt instead.

Hit a bit of snag at the front part of eating since I got me a few bones, but as I carried on eating, it was fine, and it was absolutely fresh and yummy, and the fish flesh just melts in the mouth, and the fries were amazing. It was a little hard to crack through them since we were just using plastic forks, but all in all, it was a satisfying meal. Even the pigeons who came to ask for scraps, loved it too!

Overall rating: 7/10

Nando's

After a bit of light shopping and walking around to check out one of the famous shopping malls in London, we had a late lunch at Nando's

Location: Within St. George shopping mall

Setting: A rather Jamaican-ish kind of design, and the ratio of black vs white workers there makes it even more Jamaican-ish

Service counter

Plates and sauce station

Drinks station, with unlimited refills! There is a god!

Close-up shots of the sauces available

The menu, which also is Jamaican-ish

Random table shots

Half-chicken for both 1-person and 2-person portion along with fried rice

Our drinks, which are refillable! Yayy!

Another chicken (not sure it's half or quarter) with chips

The sauces that we used for our meal

The chicken tastes pretty good, and surprisingly the rice tastes almost like, well, nasi briyani, LOL! Despite the Jamaican feel to this restaurant, apparently it's own by a Polish guy and the recipe was actually Polish. According to my bro in law, the owner made his own first business somewhere where he lived, and his sauce got so popular, it's become a household product and his business just boomed to everywhere around the globe. Well, I gotta hand it to them, they did a pretty good job, and the food is not too bad either.

Overall rating: 7.5/10