Pizza & Jazz

As I just moved into my new place and most of the stuffs are still unpacked and me bit in a hurry to spend it on cooking I decided for a take-away. There are a few take-away shops near my current place. I decided for Anglo Pizza & Kebab. I ordered Chicken & Pineapple Pizza (9”). If you order it in person, it just costs £3.80 (instead of £5.40). Anglo Pizza & Kebab also do delivery (charges apply). I really like the way of how my pizza came out on the moving floor :)

Chicken & Pineapple Pizza (9”)

Later that night, I went with some friends to Hoochie Coochie, which is situated in Pilgrim Street (NE1 6SF). 

The bar is opened every Thursday till Sunday. If you arrive there before 9pm – It’s 2-for-1 cocktails and entrance before 11pm is free.

2-for-1 whisky sours cocktails

Every Thursday like tonight, they have free live Jazz/ Funk Music with (local) bands playing on stage :)

Lisapq xoxo

French Manicure & Co

Don’t laugh if you read this – but it’s true – I got for the first time French manicure professionally done in a salon and that’s for free (instead of £25). And that by two staffs – right hand – left hand *hahaha* Thanks to a friend of mine, who recently has started to work there.

The whole process took about 40 to 45 minutes. First, my previous nail polish got removed. Then my nails got cut – very very short – I’ve never cut them that short before (kind of bit scared that it might cut a bit skin as well). Next step was to polish the cuticle. Kind of weird – as I’ve never got them look like this. Kind of “ugly” without the natural shine on it – but I was told that this was needed for the next steps. After that I got fake long white nails on them clued – before they got cut to the length I want, namely “short” *lol* Due to my office work, which is inevitable for me working with PC most of the time, I can’t afford to have these “super long” nails *lol*

Anyway, after that a layer was put on my 10 fingers to blend the fake nails with my real nails, before they got polished again.

At the end natural nail strengthen and transparent nail polished were applied with UV gel. This should lasts for up to 4 weeks – not bad the end result – what do you think?

I finished the evening with watching the movie IronMan 3. Before heading to the movie, my friend and I made a stop at YO-sushi *yummy*

I am not going to give a review about IronMan 3: to keep it short – as I’ve been asked by my friends whether it was worth or not worth seeing it. I would say yes (but not YES). The third part was definitely better than the second part. IronMan 2 was just disappointing. However, IronMan 1 is still the best from the trilogy (my point of view)...

Tiger Tiger Baby

Occasionally, I buy vouchers at Livingsocial.com or Groupon.co.uk – dunno if this saves me money or makes me to spend more *lol*

Anyway, I bought this voucher for Tiger Tiger last year. Originally, my plan was to go there around December – but things are always changing. 

The last day to redeem the voucher was on 24 March – So, I was just on time. I went there with qq today and booked a table at 6pm for 2.

The original value of the voucher was up to £63.80 (me saving up to 55% by paying £29)

Which include a welcome drink – starter – main course – desserts – I would say: not a bad deal *hehehe* Especially, I think because it was during a week day – we were the only person - before we finished our food some other guests arrived as well – but the whole time in-between – only us served by a “private” waiter *hahaha* What a nice atmosphere. Feels like we’ve booked the whole restaurant for ourselves as well~

As a welcome drink we were served with strawberry champagne cocktail – as a starter we choose “Pulled BBQ Pork Spring Roll” and “West Coast Hand Picked Crab Cakes”;

Main course “Salmon Supreme” and “6 Oz Prime Beefburger”;

Desserts “Chocolate Fudge Brownie” and “Ice Crème Sundae”.

I was making sure that each of us had ordered a different thing – so that we could share :)

In addition, we ordered a bottle red vine by the brand Ochagavia. The good thing is if one ordered any drinks between 5pm and 9pm – it’s happy hours – every drinks 50% OFF (from restaurant, bar, KTV)!! :) 

After all the yummy food – we decided to spend an hour in one of their private KTV – Lucky Voice – rooms. It's sooo cheap - as they don't charge per hour but per person. Each hour just £2.5 p.p. so makes us £5 in total (excl. the drinks). Ohhh what an amazing evening – feels like week-end :)

Singh's Indian Restaurant

Last year I bought at Groupon.co.uk a voucher for Singh’s Indian Restaurant for a Two-Course Meal for Two, which will expire this Sunday (ooohhh how time flies – almost 4 months past…). That’s why qq and I visited it today. 

I called them this noon for a reservation at 6pm (even though it was said on the voucher 24h in advance reservation… but I think this might mostly apply for the week-ends rather than during the week). 

The restaurant itself looks clean with simple and nice Indian decorations. The stuffs are friendly and food seems to be served without long waiting time (maybe because it wasn’t overcrowded tonight).

As a starter we ordered Fish Pakora Punjabi and Kalimirchi Chicken Tikka (original price would be £3.50) each. For the main course we choose Kerala Fish Curry and Lamb Chettinad (original price would be £7.50) each. This two-course would cost without the voucher £22 instead of £9.

Fish Pakora Punjabi

Kerala Fish Curry and Lamb Chettinad

In addition to the main course we also ordered two different Naan breads - Butter Naan and Peshawari Naan, which is stuffed with a mixture of almonds, raisins and Cashew nuts. So all in all for the additional we paid £7 (incl. the drinks).

 

Fazit: The food at Singh’s Indian Restaurant is soso, except for the Naan breads, which taste delicious (unfortunately, I forgot to take pictures of them… >.<). Therefore, without voucher the whole dinner would cost around £29 for two – which is not expensive but I think a bit overcharged for this place… as I’ve been to better Indian Cuisines before…

Frankie and Benny's

I felt so hungry and tired after work but wasn’t in a mood for cooking at home. Therefore, I called qq to ask whether he had dinner already – and it turned out – NO *hahaha* (cos I don’t like to sit alone in a restaurant… - kind of feeling a bit awkward...)

Anyway, we decided to try Frankie and Benny’s as we both haven't been there yet

Frankie and Benny's (NE1 8JF)

The menu prices there are great and they offer special deals the whole day. 2-Courses Lunch Menu for just £8.25 (between 11am to 5pm, Mon – Fri) and the Special Menu, which is available all day, would cost £10.95 for 2-Courses. As we both won’t make it to the Lunch Menu *lol* we went for the Special Menu and we were lucky – because it turns out that every Monday after 5pm till 10pm one will receive a 25% off discount of the final bill!! Isn't this fabulous?! (^.^)"

For starters we ordered

Mozzarella & Tomato Salad

Southern Blue Mashroom - definitively worth ordering it again (^.^)"

For the main courses

New Yorker Pasta - taste soso - pasta wasn't well cooked

New Yorker Burger

All in all incl. the drink we just paid £18.97 – not bad isn’t it?! We might even go there again.... mmmhhh, maybe next Monday... will make a post - with new starters and mains *hahaha*