17 February, 2009

Poppy the Beetle's new nose!

So, on Saturday last after running some clandestine errands in the morning, we ended up in Dorking for our Valentines day lunch about an hour earlier than intended - which, incidentally was going to be in the Pizza Express where we had our very first meal out together - so we took the opportunity to wander around the charity shops (Flyingpops scored some bargain items of clothing and I got a bunch of interesting books), but the real gem of the day was a magnetic red nose for Poppy -
Poppy the Beetle's new nose!
- which defied my expectations by both staying on at speed, and not being stolen (yet) by any tiny miscreant...
Poppy the Beetle's new nose!
Looks rather good doesn't it? If you want one you can get them for £2 at Oxfam... ;)

Lunch was superb, I can't believe how much the menu has changed since I last visited (which admittedly was probably over a year ago), for the starter I had the antipasto -
Pizza Express Antipasto starter
- which had three different kinds of cured meat (including an excellent Italian salami), toasted bread, sun dried tomatoes and rocket (an excellent combination) and lots of grated parmesan, followed by their new pizza range, the Romana (which are rolled much thinner and thus super crispy) -
Pizza Express Romana Etna
- specifically the "Etna" which *was* (as promised) extremely spicy, but actually could have done with a few more toppings, it was like working through lots of spicy cheese and tomato followed by mini taste explosions when you hit a spicy pepper or little pile of ground beef...still, a really nice change as the menu at Pizza Express had got a little bit tired over the years... ;)

5 comments:

Anonymous said...

You have made me hungry!! Might have to go and savour the cured meats. Yum.

Anonymous said...

My bargain item of clothing was a black evening dress for an awards do that's coming up!

Anonymous said...

Oh cool. I remember you saying you were having a dilemma! ;-)

Kev Brown said...

The food looks delish!

boohoo said...

Yum :)

Ray and I used to eat at Pizza Hut all the time when we first started dating and we also returned there to find the menu had changed on Valentines Day!