Four Seasons in One Day...Ending at the Aviary

Bonsoir mesdames et messieurs.

Yesterday was a beautiful day, experiencing all four seasons in one day. It started off with an early sunrise, beautiful and warm, springlike weather, then developing towards a warmer afternoon - it did reach a top (of 25 degrees I think), then by late afternoon, clouds were coming in and we definitely enjoyed some light showers with some lightning shows in the sky.

So overall, it was a very pleasant day. What else could be better? Catching up with an old friend (haven't caught up for a good number of years since high school!). So the night was enjoying strolling down Norwood Parade with a slight tinge of coldness in the air, reminding us that it is still indeed winter.

We enjoyed some dinner, but then the night just ended off beautifully at the Aviary. To start of with, a couple of warm drinks to warm us up:

Chocolate chai

English breakfast - a classic all-year-rounder tea

After we got started on the teas, the main desserts arrived and we were definitely ready to tuck in:

Orange and almond cake with slice of ice-cream topped with pistachios

Sticky-date pudding

This was a very lazy visit, really just a catch-up with a good old mate of mine, so it is not a true review per se, but rather, just a lazy night out with a quick dinner, finished off with warm desserts. I mean the orange and almond cake was nice - perhaps do with a bit of orange syrup drizzled on the cake, a bit of vanilla specks in the ice-cream with the pistachios candied lightly in caramel (chocolate crumbs don't really need to be there). The sticky-date pudding wasn't too heavy which is good (the serving size was very generous) - to make it a bit more unique, perhaps date-infused butterscotch sauce (though the sauce was quite nice) or ice-cream churned with dates, and to make it really rustic, include roughly chopped dates in the actual pudding itself. 

However, like I said, this wasn't really a review, but just a lazy post about four seasons in one day with the night concluding at the Aviary dessert kitchen ;) 

à toute à l'heure...