Yesterday my good friend Kath (a fellow Brisbanite) came down from Oxford to visit me in London yesterday. It was a beautiful London day, and we walked around town and ended up having a coffee at Putney just across the river Thames. Avoiding the Rocket Restaurant Riverside this time, as I saw that awful waitress serving, we sat down at a nice little cafe that ended up being Carluccio’s (as in after Antonio Carluccio, the famous chef that can be seen on some cooking shows). I didn’t realise that the cafe bore any relationship until we went to have a look at the deli inside the cafe and saw his cookbook there. It’s a very nice deli, small but serving a good variety of things, from salads, cured meats, sweets and cakes, and well as many various packaged goods.

Feeling like I wanted to avoid anything with lots of caffeine, I tried the Cioccolata Fiorentina (described as a thick drinking chocolate in an espresso cup) but couldn’t help but laugh when I saw what was at the end of the menu (a Piaggo Vespa for only £1799)!