St. Pancras and Benito's Hat

So tonight Nick and I went to "The Foodie Fortnight at St. Pancras".

St. Pancras is an international train station and we knew they were doing something food related, so we went along.

We saw Chef Atul Kochhar, who according to their brochure is the chef at Benares, "one of the best indian restaurants in the world".

He was on this tiny stage with tons of people around him and we couldn't see anything really.

Plus he was making some seafood dish - which I wasn't really interested in.

So we didn't stay long.

However, St. Pancras is one of the nicest train stations I have ever seen.

It was filled with little french looking cafes which I love.

Nick says it's because if the people coming in from france were forced straight into British food they would die of shock.

I tend to agree.

One of the shops in the station was called Sourced Market.

They had great veggies and I was dying to take a pumpkin home but thought it might be a pain to carry.

So we opted to buy cheese.

We got some Stinking Bishop and Stilton.

Hopefully I'll come up with a dish worthy of all the dirty looks I got on the tube this evening.

Stinking Bishop REALLY does stink!

Now as an American in London there are certain struggles I face daily.

These include never making a satisfactory cup of tea, often not being able to understand British accents and nevermind the accents of our neighbors in this predominantly indian neighborhood, oh and trying to figure out how British women wear nice shoes all the time and walk in them without wanting to kill themselves.

But one real struggle has been the lack of Chipotles.

I love Chipotle.  Nick loves Chipotle.  We need Chipotle.

But tonight Nick took me to Benito's Hat, a decent Chipotle substitute.

I must admit the fact that there were no mexicans was a little off putting.

But they made a decent burrito.