Don't Eat The Pigeons Near Trafalgar Square

From time to time I do evaluations of foodie trips I have taken or food related events I have attended. This time I am actually going to review and compare my recent dining experience in two very different cities; London and Paris. This is a trip my husband and I have been planning for quite sometime. I planned the trip around dining at a family run place, a mid level establishment and a gourmet restaurant considered one of the top ten restaurants in the city. To no ones surprise, I am sure, Paris wins hands down. Now to the quirky title of this particular blog. Since I am not a seafood eater, when my husband and I dine out, I usually eat a chicken dish. To my dismay, at both a pub and a top 10 restaurant in London, the closest I could come was pigeon. In both cases, it was served rare. It was awful. At the gourmet top ten restaurant ,it literally made me sick. Five Fields in Chelsea was where I had my second pigeon, and although the service was impeccable and the salad and desert was fine, I could not recommend spending $400 for the experience. The pub pigeon was actually some what better than the gourmet place. Of, course, our Hotel being right off of Trafalgar Square, we both joked about how few pigeons there were and whether the remaining ones were to be some ones dinner that night. In the next few blogs, I will talk about some of our other dining experiences.