Sunday 31st July
Frank's Cafe & Campari Bar, Peckham
The boy and I decided to pop in here for a quick drink after our meal in Wuli Wuli on Friday night. We had only discovered it by accident the previous week when we were trying to get to a mate's house via a short cut. It's been on the go for three summers and is a real gem of a place. They do drinks - especially lots of campari cocktails as the name suggests and they have an interesting menu. We had a negroni each (very heavy on the alcohol, hard to drink, but nice) and checked out the amazing view. It's better then from the viewing points at Hampstead Heath and Greenwich as you seem to be a lot closer. Amazing views all the way from Westminister, Elephant & Castle past the Shard and Gherkin all the way over to Canary Wharf and the Dome.
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One of the fabulous pieces of sculpture one level down for the bar. I love this, at night time, with the spot light trained on it, it looks like something from Star Wars. It's only on closer inspection that you notice that's its the handle bar of a Lidl trolley. |
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| The installation from a distance |
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| A glimpse of the amazing view of London |
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| More light and digger sculptures |
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Canary Wharf |
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| A light sculpture |
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| The covered bar. It was so packed, so it too ages to get served. |
It's a bit like walking up to a squat party when going up there in the dark. There's a young Hoxton style crowd mainly but quite a mixed bunch in the day. I really like all the sculpture and installation happening, although the two inflatable rats scared me a bit in the dark! The even have Del boy's motor on the roof, really good, so we wanted to come back in the day time to try out the food. On Sunday, some friends poped round so we all hobbled over there to get a bite and a drink. Actually hobbling because the boy and one of our friends both have dodgy knees at the moment, so getting to level 10 of the car park took a while. We all - apart from the boy - had a really nice French Cidre to drink and he had a bicyclette - a white wine and Campari drink. For food, our friends share the baked beans on toast which I had also. These were home baked hariot beans, they were baked in a dense, smoky tomato sauce, and then had a fried egg on top. I'm not a fan of eggs that haven't been mixed together so I gave mine away. I also got some Patatas a la Pobre, which we all shared. These didn't look too appealing, but were lovely. Served cold, they were boiled and dressed in lovely olive oil and mushed around a bit. Unfortunately no pics of the food we had asI didn't bring the camera. The boy had the chicken wings, coated in chilli and lemon, which he said were amazing and finger lickin' good - high praise indeed!
After one or two more drinks we watched the sun slowly go down over the amazing skyline.
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