A while ago I set up a Google Alert for pop up restaurants in London. There's no longer any point. Recently every single article has made me sad.
The amazing wonderful and exciting news is Rene Redzepi, of best restaurant in Europe, Noma, is hosting a pop up restaurant in London! Finally London's inhabitants get the chance to try his famed food.
It's so exciting, and I have so many questions about it. Noma is all about hyper locally grown food, with an emphasis on foraging and harvesting, and serves nothing not grown locally. This has lead some to grumble that in winter the pine flavours could be too much and that the occasional tomato would really lift his dishes, but I can't help thinking these people are missing the point.
However, the pop up is at Claridges and costs £200 a head. So unless I am accidentally deemed some sort of power-blogger, there is no chance I'll ever know.
I think this sort of sums up how many Londoners feel about the whole of the Olympics. London is excellent and loads of wonderful things exist through people's hard work and creativity. However with the Olympics, and the ethos of these wonderful things is stripped out and high prices or unavailability to allow for "sponsorship opportunities", these events are made unavailable to the Londoners who love them so. As I say, it makes me a little bit sad.
Maybe Redzepi will attend an alternative pop up event in addition to Claridges? Maybe even with the Young Turks, now that really would be something...
