Did you see what I did there?
Janie and I had a day off.
We went to the Dorcheter Hotel for lunch at the Oriental Restaurant. We had been dying to try the place and had been tipped off that the lunchtime offering was a much better deal than the evening meal.
We both remember it being excellent scoff.
Jay Rayner in The guardian wrote up the notion of going to the place for lunch a few years after we worked that out. I don’t recall our lunchtime meal revolving around dim sum – I think that was a later lunchtime innovation there.
Then on to the Royal Academy to see Monet In The 20th Century, which was an excellent exhibition.
Big thumbs up from Laura Cumming in The Observer:
Monet Cumming Observer 24 Jan 1999, Sun The Observer (London, Greater London, England) Newspapers.com
Sebastian Faulks in The Standard seemed less sure.
Monet Faulks Standard 22 Jan 1999, Fri Evening Standard (London, Greater London, England) Newspapers.com