Anyway, back to the theme.
I have to find a place that can take perhaps 30 bods, who don't necessarily want to splash a fortune, all around Christmas time. I don't mind going to Hawksmoor * or anywhere else but as 30 fellows sitting down will take up a considerable stretch of their dinning area I can't imagine it's going to be:
(a) Cheap
(b) Easy
I suggested pizza / spag bog / Italian as most bods (they can be a fussy lot these UKGSer's) can find something on the menu of 103 items that they:
(a) Recognise
(b) Like
(c) Can remember as and when the unfortunate waiter comes to deliver their meal, 20 minutes after ordering
I also need to find a place that is reasonably well served by the tube or DLR (it doesn't bother me as nowhere is too far from central London) the main train stations and for all I know where some foolish chap can park his bike, without his clocks getting nicked. They only come bleating on here when it happens and it'll spoil Christmas, not least as BMW won't be able to get any in until well into the new year.
I had thought about the Gun pub in Spitalfields, which used to do top notch English grub at a decent price. It has closed and re-opened so often I am not sure what state it's in at the moment. I will go and find out what the score is.
Other things I had mulled over and not yet rejected are: A big fish and chip supper, a curry (feck those that don't like it, I do) one of the 'big burger' places, as recommended by
http://www.hamburger-me.com and the private dinning room at la Caprice, who do the best lamb chops in town. Last but by no means least, we could venture up the Edgware Road and embrace the sights, smells and sounds of downtown Beirut, rendez-vous at BMW Park Lane to gawp in the windows. This has the added attraction of being able to abuse the Albanian vagrants, illegal immigrants, sponging, thieving gits or poor destitute desperate people (call them what you like) who set up camp near Marble Arch. It will quite get the evening off to an excellent start.
* I am going to their Guildhall restaurant for breakfast tomorrow.
