Lots more beetroot from the garden again this year and more beetroot soup. There is something rather exotic about soup that is such a deep rich red.
And it reminded me of somewhere exotic that I visited over thirty years ago. As a new graduate working in London, I went with a group of friends to a Russian restaurant in Kensington. We thought we were very grown up and sophisticated to be going out in Kensington to a Russian restaurant, especially having starters that were not the usual 1970s fair of prawn cocktail or melon! It was my first ever taste of borscht and I've been a fan ever since.
I was surprised to find that the restaurant
"Borscht 'n' Tears" is still in Kensington... although I doubt they still have crockery that encourages petty theft. Perhaps I wasn't quite so sophisticated and grown up as I thought!
And it reminded me of somewhere exotic that I visited over thirty years ago. As a new graduate working in London, I went with a group of friends to a Russian restaurant in Kensington. We thought we were very grown up and sophisticated to be going out in Kensington to a Russian restaurant, especially having starters that were not the usual 1970s fair of prawn cocktail or melon! It was my first ever taste of borscht and I've been a fan ever since.
I was surprised to find that the restaurant "Borscht 'n' Tears" is still in Kensington... although I doubt they still have crockery that encourages petty theft. Perhaps I wasn't quite so sophisticated and grown up as I thought!
With a cup like that they're just asking for it!
ReplyDeleteThat soup looks delicious - such a lovely colour too.
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How very sophisticated! Your borscht looks lovely! Lucy x
ReplyDeleteGina Ferrari, I am shocked, nay horrified that you should be a cup thief. Outrageous!
ReplyDelete;-)
I've never had borscht, and my beetroot crop was utterly pathetic so I doubt I shall this year. Sigh.
I have never had borscht.... However, 'tis the time of year that I splatter beetroot up the kitchen curtains as I use the mini blender gadget to blend beetroot .......
ReplyDeleteA Thai restaurant called The Blue Elephant in Fulham, actually sells its crockery etc to prevent theft. i know someone who left the restaurant 9 months pregnant with a cushion!
ReplyDeleteThat soup is a wonderful colour - no doubt the flavour matches. You are not alone - my grandfather worked for the railway and I remember a teaspoon at granny's engraved with GWR!
ReplyDeleteOh you naughty girl,can I send you to the naughty chair?
ReplyDeleteIt would be rude not to! (I have a glass from 'The Prospect of Whitby from when I was 17..and I've just worked out how many years ago it was that I got it and I'm not telling)
ReplyDeleteLike Jackie with the glass!
ReplyDeleteI carted a half pint jug from a Pub in Hay-on-Wye in a backpack for six months before it made it's way back to Oz some 20 years ago - it is still in the glass cupboard - heavily protected from my children. You can see why cafe's charge so much with so many clepto's around :)
Borsch looks great, but I'm still not sold on the cold soup idea - or is that a plebian concept - just the same it looks spectactular !
Oh Dear. Now you've put it on the internet and they'll come after you, you naughty little girl. You're too, too funny!
ReplyDeleteThe soup looks lovely and I am sure it tasted as good. Well fancy that you kept the cup and saucer all these years.
ReplyDeleteGoodness, one might almost think you were from my neck of the woods.
ReplyDeleteThat is very pretty soup, but beetroots are not my favourite, so I shall just admire.
Perhaps the "Tears" were for all their missing crockery ;o)
ReplyDeleteGreat post x
What a brilliant teacup! Not sure it would fit in my purse though. Perhaps I should start carrying bigger handbags...
ReplyDeleteK x
My husband used to play guitar at the Borsch and Tears back in those days. Perhaps you saw him there?
ReplyDeleteI used to work at the Borscht in the late 60s. Wyatt is your husbands name? I remember some great musicians who played there Nick
DeleteWhat a stunning picture, I hope the soup tasted as good as it looks. I've never stolen anything, unless you count a ceramic ashtray, many, many years ago! ;-)
ReplyDeleteGina - I still have friends. There could well be a knock on your door very early one morning when you least expect it ............
ReplyDeleteMore shocking though, is that anyone actually EATS beetroot. Eeuuccckkk !
Such a marvelously delicious looking soup! You are amazing!
ReplyDeleteHave a very nice weekend.
hugs from emily xo