Fine Dining and Impeccable Service

More birthdays meant we were invited to dinner at Gordon Ramsay's Murano Restaurant yummy.

We were treated to a 3 course meal with excellent wine and attentive service. The deserts were a let down but the cheese board made up for it.

First a selection of breads

Starters

Potato mousseline, deep-fried frog’s legs, parsley velouté, garlic crisps


Ceviche of sea scallops, apple and cucumber salsa, lime vinaigrette, avocado and sesame crisps


Warm new season white asparagus, poached hen’s egg, pickled morels, grated hazelnuts


Carpaccio of yellow fin tuna, glazed pork belly


Mains

Whole Dover sole, watercress and lemon risotto, brown butter, capers and anchovies (for two) filleted at your table




Monkfish tail, buttered baby gem, smoked aubergine purée, deep-fried anchovy


Poached and roasted corn-fed baby chicken


Cleanse the palette



Desserts
Warm apple terrine, salted caramel sauce, prune purée


Mango parfait, pineapple carpaccio, pineapple and Pernod sorbet


Almond moelleux, rhubarb and orange, tonka bean anglaise

Chris Ofili at theTate

We were kindly invited to the Chris Ofili exhibition at the Tate Britain by Charlie Dark.

Showing for the first time in Britain the Tate brings you an in depth catalogue of over 45 pieces of work spanning from the mid 90s to present day.
Ofili quickly rose to fame early in his career as an artist who is most famous for his Elephant Dung paintings and being the first black painter to win the Turner price.
Now residing in Trinidad the exhibition takes you from a young black artist screaming for attention forged under the back drop of "cool Britannia" through an introspective blue period, then finally out the other side arriving at a cornucopia of colour and passion which is heavily influenced by his residence in Trinidad, the rhythm of the carnival is definitely in his most recent works!

PS. The after party was AMAZING, free cocktails, good tunes.....much fun and mischief was had by all!! LOL!!

Afro 2000


Chris Ofili’s The Upper Room which was especially designed by the architect David Adjaye in 2002 at the Victoria Miro Gallery


Iscariot Blues 2006



Douen's Dance 2007 inspired by Malick Sidibé 1963 photo Nuit de Noel





Good People


The man him self Chris Ofili


Charlie Dark


Caroline Issa Editor of Tank magazine and fashion designer Duro olowu


Artist Yinka Shonibare


Artist Lemi Ghariokwu view our blog on his exhibition of Fela Album artwork





David Adjaye Architect and Okwui Enwezor Curator and writer



Nicola and Roger Robinson. Check his new music King Midas Sound


Studio Pixie Grafic Designer and Twitter Family






Chris Ofili bootleg merchandise


Chris Ofili official






Black Nurse Network................. lol

After the show was the after party








Cocktails, Soca and Sweet mother kept Bnn Happy



Prince Nico Mbarga Sweet Mother




Red Plastic Bag Volcano

À bientôt

Farewell to our good friend (and original Black Nerd). She has worked in our boutique "constructive lives" and has partied with us from "Market Place" to "Plastic People". Unfortunately for us, last Saturday we were all saying goodbye in a Dalston local. After 10 years in London Town she's finally returning to Sweden.



Grafics by Imagist

See you soon xx

Start Them Young

Meet Vesey named after Denmark Vesey.

His mother tells us "He's a rising second grader who was on the winning MathBowl team for his first grade. And, he thinks he can step and crump with the best of them."

Here are pictures of Vesey working his Bnn Tee and doesn't he do it well.