London Ninja

To celebrate my 1st year anniversary, I decided to take mi lady out for a nice dinner in London. The decision on where to go was easy since we are close friends with Gordon Ramsay, the celebrity chef behind Hells Kitchen and Kitchen Nightmares (Premiering this week). By close friends, I mean we’ve met him once at Taste of London. So we chose to go to the Boxwood Cafe for dinner.

Boxwood Cafe is basically gourmet British cuisine with very nice dishes but offering some traditional British food like Sheperds Pie and Sweetbreads.

We ended up ordering the following dishes

1. Champagne
2. Joffre e Hijas Grand Malbec from Mendoza
2. Baby squid in a rocket salad
3. Fig salad with parma ham and greens
4. Salmon with cauliflower foam
5. Gnocci with different beans
6. salt caramel coffee cake

All in all the quality was great. By great I mean both in terms of taste and in terms of Pounds Sterling. In Brit terms, it was lovely but bloody expensive.

The unique thing about our evening, however, was that when we arrived we noticed a dude there having a drink. Lo and Behold it was Gordon Ramsay. Apparently he was taping a show of Kitchen Nightmares there that night. So despite the chaos with the filming in the kitchen, I was able to arrange for a private personal tour of the kitchen, meeting both Gordon Ramsay and the Executive Chef of the restaurant. I was able to hook it up through some special deal that I could tell you about but then I would have to put you in a jiujitsu lock. I don’t know Kung Fu but I know CRAZY so consider yourself warned. In the kitchen we got to chat with Gordon about stuff…restaurants…LA, San Fran, Hell’s Kitchen, and my mad ninja skillz.

The good thing is that there was no mention of me needing a proper shave this time around. That bastard.

All in all, great experience. Pricey food. Probably the most expensive meal I’ve had thus far in London but it’s worth it if you get to chat with a celebrity chef.