I’ve only got goodbye left in me for this month and its for Pauline. Tonight is possibly the last meal I’ll ever have with Pauline … in London at least. Venue: Dollar Grills and Martinis.

Dollar Grills and Martinis has been on my to list for quite some time – a Northern American dominated venue, funky location, extensive cocktails list – what’s not to love! This close to Halloween the restaurant had been fully themed up with cob webbing etc.. Though to be honest I don’t know how different it looks on an ordinary day – the decorations seemed quite at home where they were!

We decided to share a starter of king prawn with melon. We didn’t expect it to be cold for a start. Second it hardly looked appetizing when it came – the king prawns seemed to be buried in this red sauce. However, despite these low expectations, the prawns were actually quite tasty.

For mains we moved on to one of my favourite dishes in the world, though Dollar Grills and Martinis are known for their burgers, neither Pauline nor I could get past the whole rack of ribs. Served with french fries and deep fried battered onion slices this was a heart attack waiting to happen but boy it was delicious. The only weakness in the dish that I could see was that we weren’t given additional barbecue sauce to supplement our ribs – not entirely necessary but it would have been nice to have the option.

Though getting slightly full from our food and cocktails we had to order dessert. What’s a meal without three courses! We both went for the chocolate fondant (for me 2009 seemed the year for the chocolate fondant) accompanied by green tea ice cream. The fondant was actually pretty good – all nice and gooey. Entertaingly our dish was also themed for Halloween with a giant skull carved out in sugar.

Service was decent throughout the night though noticeably affected when it got quite a bit busier with loads of groups of parties. Great atmosphere and buzz – tonight at least this seems like a very popular place for both dates and large parties.

After Pauline and I staggered out of the restaurant, fully stuffed with food, we took a longish walk to King’s Cross where we said our “final” goodbye (this is probably the third time I’ve said goodbye to Pauline this month.) It was extremely sad to be saying this to a good friend of mine but as I’ve said before – the world isn’t as big as it used to be and I’m sure we will see each other again in the future. Still, I will miss Pauline laughing at my stupid jokes! Ha ha!