Back in the Big Smoke for a spot of culture and epicurean pleasure. Sitting in the wonderfully accessible Sadlers Wells, about to see my favourite theatre director, Robert Lepage, try his hand at a new skill: dancing, with Sylvie Guillem in Eonnagata. Going to head home straight after the show rather than spend an expensive night at a hotel so I've brought the car. I'm impressed by Sadler's free, gated and guarded car park one minute's wheel away from the theatre.
Replete after a delicious lunch with a friend in Acorn House, according to Giles Coren over at the Times "the most important restaurant to open in London in the past 200 years". Important I suppose because of its green credentials: it's "London’s first truly environmentally sustainable restaurant". According to Mr Coren, Acorn House is "built from organic and recycled materials, composts or recycles 100 per cent of its waste, demands positive animal husbandry, avoids industrial farming, uses green electricity, buys Fairtrade where it can, and pledges never to use airfreight."
But I'm more delighted by the perfect height tables, accessible loo and level entrance (though you need to go round the back). Mouth wateringly delicious cuttlefish and unusually flavoured chili pasta. To finish, fresh leaves of verbena and peppermint. It's on Swinton Street just behind King's Cross with blue badge parking nearby. A magical oasis in what can be a bit of a gastronomic wasteland. I will be returning to quench...
