Crumbs and Doilies...

Seems fitting that this post follows the last as this darling little cupcake shop is situated in Kingly Court like the restaurants I mentioned in my past post. 

Crumbs and Doilies may not look like much from the outside but inside are the cutest cupcakes you have ever seen. On their website you can browse the over 30 flavours they have or you can visit their shop where they usually have about 8 flavours out everyday.

You can get a full size cupcake or an exact replica as a mini cupcake. As well as cupcakes Crumbs and Doilies does brownies, rocky roads and big cakes. 

When my mum, my sister and I visited we were just in the mood for a little afternoon pick me up so opted for a bottle of water, a cold brew coffee and 3 mini cupcakes.

My chosen mini cupcake was a snickers cupcake, a chocolate cupcake with peanut butter icing drizzled with chocolate and caramel sauce and topped with peanuts.

Mum's pick was a buttered popcorn cupcake, I'm not quite sure the flavour of the actual cake part but it definitely tasted like butter popcorn, buttery and slightly salty. Of course it was topped off with actual popcorn and a drizzle of caramel.

Em had a Velvet Volcano cupcake which was a red velvet cupcake on a biscuit base topped with cookies and cream icing. I have to say I was a little envious of this one!

Crumbs and Doilies is owned by Youtube Cupcake Jemma who actually has videos on her youtube channel showcasing recipes and baking. 

It is a small shop but entices you to revisit many times to try out all the flavours. When I go back I want to try the biscoff rocky road or maybe a slice of one of their big cakes.

Kingly Court...

There are so many different restaurants in London covering all cuisines so it is usually really hard deciding on where to go for dinner. But not today! We went to Kingly Court in Soho which is a food and drink mecca with over 15 restaurants and cafes situated around the main courtyard. Instead of sitting down and eating our whole dinner at one restaurant we decided to go to 3 different restaurants and order 1 dish from each and share it.

We started right at the top of Kingly Court at Le Bab which is on the 2nd floor. We choose Le Bab as it serves posh kebabs which seemed like a novel idea. Also I had never had a kebab before so this seemed like the perfect place to try one.

Le Bab has a very interesting small menu with unique dishes. It was hard to just pick one dish but we went with the 15-hour free range pork shawarma kebab. We were definitely swayed by the crackling.

It really was tasty with flavours that I hadn't expected when we ordered it. For £12 it initially seemed pretty steep for what is essentially a pork wrap but after tasting it I would say it was worth it.

Moving on from the Le Bab, we next went to Señor Ceviche which is a Peruvian restaurant specialising in Ceviche. We definitely knew we wanted to go for a ceviche here and after perusing the menu for a while went for "The Spaniard" which is a sea bream and king prawn ceviche.

We got given a mini bowl of what looked like sweetcorn and I guess it was sweetcorn but it was salty and crispy. It was like popcorn that hadn't puffed and was very moreish, we finished our little portion.

I accidentally didn't take a photo before we split the ceviche onto our 2 plates but I promise it looked a little more presentable. It tasted really fresh and slightly spicy, on the other end of the spectrum to our pork kebab!

I do have to say that our waitress here was a little miffed that we only ordered one dish to share but I think that was because she was really enthusiastic about the food and maybe thought that she wasn't selling it enough to us. 

The final restaurant that we gave a go was Oka, a sushi restaurant. Here it was a no brainer and we ordered the Spider roll, a soft shell crab uramaki topped with avocado.

It was good sushi, not amazing (I'm talking about you black cod from Sticks and Sushi), but for the price it was really worth it. 

Now we were running out of time so instead of swapping restaurants for dessert we ordered their white chocolate and macadamia nut cookie skillet. This was sooo yummy especially when the ice cream melted into the warm cookie. It is a nice simple idea for a dessert which would be easy to recreate at home.

After our restaurant hopping we hurried up to Madame Tussauds for "The Game's Afoot" which is a live action immersive theatre show. You are the detective and you ask the actors questions to try and work out who the killer is. It was possibly the coolest thing I have ever experienced and I am definitely on the lookout for more things like that to do. I can't tell you much more about it as I don't want to give anything else away so go do it for yourself.

Out of the three restaurants we went to I think Le Bab was the best because it was so different to anything I have had before and the one dish we had was so flavoursome that I really can't wait to go back and try more.

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