Tales of an Amorphic Destiny

Sarah's 30th – Beers by the Thames & Dinner @ Belgos

March 30th, 2008 at 07:19pm James

With a trip to Iceland planned for the weekend of Sarah’s 30th, we got everybody together on the previous Saturday for a birthday celebration.

After a lunchtime cocktail or two at home, we made our way into town for the business end of proceedings.

We spent the afternoon in The Samuel Pepys, a very nice bar overlooking the Thames and directly opposite the Tate Modern. Before long a weird and wonderful selection of drinks were ordered and we settled in for a very relaxing afternoon.

Apparently The Samuel Pepys is quite busy during the week, patronised by workers from the surrounding offices. But being quite tucked away, it’s virtually deserted on the weekends and so we were lucky enough to have the place pretty much to ourselves.

The lack of business at The Samuel Pepy’s on the weekend is reflected by their unfortunate Saturday closing time of 5pm. We managed to stick around a little longer to finish off one last round before piling in to black cabs, bound for Belgo Centrall in Covent Garden.

Belgo is a Belgian restaurant famed for it’s hearty food and extensive beer menu.

We were soon tucking in to some very tasty appetizers, washed down by all manner of delicious and highly potent Belgian beers!

One of the many curiosities on Belgo’s beer menu are the shot sticks – long wooden racks of schnapps shots. We had one of the largest size delivered forthwith. And then another, and another…

Delicious mains included surf and turf (with lobster in place of the usual prawns), plenty of chips and of course the mandatory Belgian dish – Mussels!

After dessert and yet more Belgian beer, we finally departed and headed for home.

Some of us ended on a quick detour via Kilburn for a pint, but eventually we all made it back to the house where the fun continued with guitars of both the acoustic and plastic, (Guitar Hero) variety.

Great friends, great food, plenty of tasty beers and a lot of laughs – a perfect way to celebrate the big three zero for Sarah! There’s lots more pictures of our silly antics here.

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