Restaurant: Villandry Kitchen
Location: High Holborn
Cuisine: French
Date: 10/03/2010
Meal: Light Dinner @ 6.30pm
Food: Duck Rillettes with Baguette Ancienne and Baby Fig Chutney
Drinks: Orange Juice + Cappuccino
Cost: £9.85+ tip
Other tables 4 1: 4 or 5 other solo diners.
Cute clientele: 7/10
Cute staff: 6/10
Food yummy-ness: 8/10
Notes: Lovely bread. Their pizzas look nice (next time). I’ve had desert here before and it was gorgeous. Service was good and the atmosphere picked up by the time I was ready to leave.

Restaurant: Haagen Dazs
Location: Leicester Square
Cuisine: Ice cream
Date: 04/03/2010
Meal: Pre-going out ice cream
Food: One scoop – a chocolate caramelly biscuity thing whose name I have now forgotten (so will obviously need to go and get some more)
Drinks: Cappuccino
Cost: £10.45 including tip
Other tables 4 1: None. One of the most gag-worthy places for a single to hang out – far too many smoochy couples sharing chocolate fondues or eating their weight in ice cream.
Cute clientele: 7/10
Cute staff: 9/10
Food yummy-ness: 8/10
Notes: Mmmmm – need I say more.

Sorry I started eating before I realised I hadn't taken a pic!

Restaurant: Café Rouge
Location: Termainal 4, Heathrow Airport
Cuisine: French (?!)
Date: 12/02/2010
Meal: Pre-flight dessert
Food: Tart Tatin + vanilla ice cream
Drinks: Tea
Cost: Lost the receipt, but around £10
Other tables 4 1: one or two solo fliers
Cute clientele: 5/10
Cute staff: 4/10
Food yummy-ness: 5/10
Notes: Had to queue to get a table. Service was OK, but they were very busy. Didn’t like the pastry on the tart and it wasn’t hot enough. Ice cream was yummy though.

Dinner at Sushi Hiroba

Restaurant: Sushi Hiroba
Location: 50-54 Kingsway, Holborn, WC2B 6EP
Website: http://www.sushihiroba.co.uk/
Cuisine: Japanese
Date: 09/02/2010
Meal: Dinner
Food: Yakidori, Chicken Gyoza and Salmon Sushi
Drinks: Green tea
Cost: £10.45 including tip
Other tables 4 1: a couple of solo guys
Cute clientele: 7/10
Cute staff: 6/10 (they weren’t serving me!)
Food yummy-ness: 8/10
Notes: Who’d a thunk me eating sushi voluntarily – not usually a fish fan, but it was larvely. Really busy restaurant. Sat at the conveyor belt – good for talking to other solo diners. Next time I might be a bit more adventurous! Everything looked gorgeous, even the things that looked like alien body parts!

Dessert at Garfunkel's

Restaurant: Garfunkel's
Location: Tottenham Court Road
Website: http://www.garfunkels.co.uk/
Cuisine: Steak house…actually, who knows, they serve everything!
Date: 09/02/2010
Meal: Dessert
Food: New York-style Baked Cheesecake with red-berry compote(was I supposed to eat something before dessert?!)
Drinks: Diet coke
Cost: £6.80 + tip
Other tables 4 1: two or three other solo diners
Cute clientele: 7/10
Cute staff: 4/10 (they weren’t serving me!)
Food yummy-ness: 5/10
Notes: Yes, I know it’s Garfunkel’s but I needed a table for one. Food was average at best, but good service and I did ask to be sat somewhere quiet and they put me behind a screen – no I wasn’t in the kitchen! Loud soft rock so it wasn’t really that quiet, but they did play “Don’t stop believing” while I was in there, so I can’t complain too much!

Lunch at Pho

Restaurant: Pho
Location: 3 Great Titchfield Street, London, W1W 8AX
Website: http://www.phocafe.co.uk/
Cuisine: Vietnamese
Date: 26/01/2010
Meal: Lunch
Food: Bun Ga: lemongrass chicken. Vermicelli rice noodles with hot marinated toppings, herbs and peanuts. Noodles served cold as in Vietnam. Served with spicy nuoc cham sauce on the side.
Drinks: Still water and Weasel coffee
Cost: £14.50 + £1.50 tip
Other tables 4 1: Quite a number of solo diners
Cute clientele: 8/10
Cute staff: 7/10
Food yummy-ness: 9/10
Notes: Lovely fresh, flavoursome food. Large portions. The weasel coffee's a bit pricey, but when you know how they got it it makes sense! The coffee served with condensed milk was just what I needed after the meal.

Dinner at Woo Jung

Yes, I need a food photography course

Restaurant: Woo Jung
Location: St Giles Circus, Near Centre Point
Cuisine: Korean
Date: 19/01/2010
Meal: Early Dinner
Food: Lamb Bibimbap (rice, vegetables, lamb topped with a fried egg) served in a hot stone bowl. Served with weird jelly stuff and bean sprouts
Drinks: Diet coke
Cost: £9.10 including service charge
Other tables 4 1: More of a group and couples type place
Cute clientele: 5/10
Cute staff: 4/10
Food yummy-ness: 6/10
Notes: Nice atmosphere. Service wasn’t great. Food was average.