16th July – Simon and Kate treated me to lunch today – at Yo Sushi. I have tried sushi – I can’t say that I found the flavour particularly exciting, but Kate assured me that raw fish was not compulsory.
Now, my idea of going out to lunch involves sitting and relaxing while being served. It did not bode well for a relaxing lunch hour when you are greeted at the door by “Let me tell you what you have to do.” Err….how about I sit down, and you bring me some food? Seems to work elsewhere. What also works elsewhere is the idea that factories move food around using conveyer belts, and restaurants move food around using waitresses. We appear to have been booked into the production area, since we were shown to a table adjacent to a conveyor belt, with bowls of food passing by, presumably between the production area and the loading bay. However we were encouraged to help ourselves from the belt whenever we spied something that we fancied, or to just ask if we wanted something hot.
Actually it was more of a relaxed experience than I expected – the company was good, the conversation was good, the food was surprisingly nice, even if it was served in a modern version of a Tupperware container, and when the production supervisor came to count the empty bowls, Simon paid. As Simon would say, Coolio. And it must be genuinely authentic, because there was a Japanese family at the next table.
Yes, I would go again.
Technically we live in Oaktree House, but sadly the tree had to go.
We now have a thriving Oakstump at the front of the house.
