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!