When you want a seafood dinner, Miss Ukraine is the dining companion that you want. And convincing her to come with me to and check out Wright Brothers was not a particularly difficult task.
On this potentially the hottest day of the year I made my way to the little cobbled streets around Borough Market and once more questioned why I don't go there more often. The market is great, but all the little pubs and restaurants around it is really what makes it such a lovely little area, especially in summer.
As I get to the restaurants, Miss Ukraine is awaiting my arrival with some cold bubbles - perfect seeing as we needed to cool down from the sauna that is apparently the Wright Brothers Restaurant. All those spaces under the railway tracks - it's cute, but oh my god is it sizzling. We convince the waitress to sneak us off to a table by the open windows where the seats were uncomfortable but the risk of dying from heat stroke lessened.
I go straight ahead and order the small portion of fruit de la mer. Whoever used the word 'small' in the same sentence as this dish, should have gone to Specsavers.
Oh goodness, there are probably whole lakes in the world with less organic activity than what was on my plate. I didn't even care about the lack of lobster and for the first time ever, a shellfish dish has truly filled me up.
Firstly, I am actually taking a liking to oysters. There's been massive improvement in my oyster eating since that first time and I'm really starting to enjoy swallowing those slimy bastards alive. There were also absolutely perfect razor clams, equally perfect langoustines, delicious mini prawns and gorgeous mussels.
The only thing not striking my fancy were the snail looking things that comes with every single seafood platter these days. What are they? How do you get them out of the stupid shell? Are they only adding these to fruit de la mer because they are cheap and it's the recession? Who would voluntarily put a thing in their mouth that looks like death and tastes like death?
Please solve the mystery of the sea snails so that I can come back real soon.
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