Thursday 21 October 2010

It was a good 'un

Whilst all around political editors debated and dissected the budgetary issues of the UK, Mr MDS and I nipped out in the cold London air to celebrate.

It felt a bit like we were indulging in some hedonistic pleasure while Rome burned as we entered Hix Soho on Brewer St. It is by no means opulent but it is new(ish) and exciting. We went down stairs to the bar for a pre dinner drink. It is such a good venue that in the midst of my meaningful discussion with my beloved he said 'cool bar'. I had to concede it was a point well made and dropped any attempt at deepness.

My champagne was served in a delightful glass and I made Mr MDS undertake a photo which was not cool in a cool bar. I actually look different in the photo but not in a good way and my up do is lost in the coolness of the dark ambience. But the glass is magnificent so I'm ignoring my vanity. I'm also wearing the dress I bought off Mrs Bossa and altered.



Then it was upstairs for dinner. Mr MDS loves Mark Hix, he is good blokey chef and I've always enjoyed his chef aesthetics even if sometimes the food is too rich for me. I always select the lightest possible food on the menu. But you can't go to Hix's establishments and not have oysters.


There was a choice of three types and I asked the waiter his view on the rock or natural after discounting the Duchy of Cornwall's ones. After more questioning he did reveal lots of people spurned the royal oysters, it seems there are a lot of us anti-royalists around. I choose some good old Essex rocks which were delicious and I only had 3, which I think is enough.

The rest of our meal was delicious and the wine was superb too. It was such a lovely wedding anniversary evening.


Oh the glamour of getting the train home even in Prada shoes!

23 comments:

  1. Hi my dear! You look so decadent and chic and it sounds like you both had a gorgeous time, Happy Anniversary wishes to you both! xx

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  2. Kate you look great and why waste your life trying to be cool take the shot girl !! xx

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  3. You look fabulous and chic, even whilst waiting for a train. Happy Anniversary, you crazy kids!

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  4. I love your outfit and those shoes...I was drooling over some Miu Miu kitten heels in Athens but at over 400 Euros they were too much.

    Belated Happy Anniversary! xx

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  5. Happy anniversary!! You look lovely, and I badly want some proper champagne glasses like that...

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  6. I recognised the dress straight away, it looks great on you! Happy belated Anniversary! xx

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  7. Happy anniversary! Celebrated in very much the style that Mr EM and myself choose. Just the two of us at a fun venue with Champagne which is our favourite food (!) though I love oysters which sadly Mr EM doesn't. You look stunning - that updo, that dress, that jacket (is it fur?) and those shoes. So happy and so loved. Bless.

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  8. adore oysters. : ) You look gorgeous!

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  9. Ah, the elegant blond woman on the train. You look like something out of a Hitchcock movie!

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  10. So happy you had a great evening. I love Oysters. Mr Fashionistable is allergic to them ruined a couple of romantic evenings before we put 2 and 2 together. Xxxx

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  11. Glad we got to see you in that dress, it looks beautiful especially with those Pradas x

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  12. You look stunning, the Mrs Bossa dress looks wonderful on you. And I think we get the idea of the up-do - you definitely look very Mad Men. Glad you had a lovely evening x

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  13. Happy Anniversary so lovely you went out and celebrated in style you look great in that dress after being a golfing widow

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  14. Prada shoes .. *sigh*.. You look wonderful- so elegant and classy! :) And I would totally eat that- I love any seafood- my dad used to say 'everything that's in sea can be eaten-except for sand and rocks' and he brought us up with that motto, we had fish /seafood/octopus more often than chicken and beef :P haha.. Anyways, Happy Anniversary to you!

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  15. So festive! Congrats, you two.

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  16. Dear Kate, I love Hix. I'm so glad you had a lovely evening and you look gorgeous. Love the up do, you can see it much better in the second picture xx

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  17. elegancemaison - No not fur, faux astrakhan, I bought it in Gap five years or more ago, it is lovely and it was so cold I had a velvet wrap wrapped around my neck.

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  18. Nice frock!!

    It looks great on you - glad it went to a loving home and is now rockin' it up in Soho and the like! xx

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  19. Very glamorous darling! You look fab, glad you had a lovely evening.

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  20. Very glamorous darling! You look fab, glad you had a lovely evening.

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  22. Happy Anniversary! And SNAP! We were in Camden Town Hall Registry Office 22 years ago Tuesday. xx

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