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.

Dinner at My Old Dutch Pancake House

Restaurant: My Old Dutch Pancake House
Location: High Holborn
Cuisine: Dutch Pancakes
Date: 05/01/2010
Meal: Early Dinner
Food: Amsterdamer Pancaake (sauteed apple, smoked bacon and maple syrup)
Drinks: pot of tea
Cost: £10.20 + tip
Other tables 4 1: Lots of solo diners
Cute clientele: 1/10
Cute staff: N/A – all women
Food yummy-ness: 8/10
Notes: Good service. Popular venue. Do a £5 for all pancakes offer on Mondays. Be nice to go to just for desserts.

Some of my fav cupcakes

Peyton and Byrne Rasberry and Coconut cupcake (with my christmas tree!)

Hummingbird Bakery Blackbottom cupcake

Bea's of Bloomsbury Mummy cupcake for Halloween

Mini Oreo cupcake (can't remember which bakery) from Selfridges

Yummy hot chocolate

Carluccio's Cioccolata Fiorentina

It's like chocolate pudding in a cup!

Table for one please.

Hi and welcome to my blog!

Basically I've been single for 3 years and have really got into going out to restaurants by myself.

I wanted to share the delight of solo dining and the pleasure gained from going into a restaurant and asking for a table for one.

As the Muppet Babies say "A table for one can be fun" http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wcdu6qjFm1Y


Hope you enjoy.

Cx