Istanbul Sublime (by Biggs)

That title got you interested didn't it?

Tonight Anita, my best friend of nearly 30 years, came to visit so we went on a little dinner date. There is an excellent Turkish restaurant 5 minutes walk up the road so, in the interest of simplicity and laziness, we headed up there.

When I called to make a reservation the guy almost encouraged me not to come because they only had a table on the back veranda and warned that it was going to be blustery and we best bring a jumper. Thanks to a bit of pre-storm humidity it was actually quite lovely.

Caravanserai is well-know for it's platters so we went with the platter for two, Istanbul Sublime with shish kebab chicken, chargrilled garlic prawns, kofta meatballs, haloumi, bean salad, rice and pide. We also had some lovely tart Turkish lemonade. Dinner was lovely. Anita was insiting that the platters used to be more interesting with beetroot and chorizo but in reality we just didn't have enough people for one of the fancier platters. So, my advice, if you're going to Caravanserai take a bunch of people and order everything on the menu.

Better than the food was the lightening show over the river. The photo hue is compliments of the romantic candlelight.

Anita's a fan of dessert and since our household has a serious dessert glut after Alex's visit I cooked (heated) up the sticky date pudding when we got back home and served it with cream. Quite good and perfectly themed to our dinner of Turkish delights.