A Brilliant Birthday Date Night at Roka Mayfair

After a lovely day spent having lunch at Galvin at Windows (more on that later) and a bit of birthday shopping with my mum I arrived home to this…

And my first ever ‘Wife’ birthday card. 🙂 Mr S had a very happy wife as a result…

When me and sister were little we always got an ‘unbirthday’ present on each other’s birthday so that we wouldn’t feel too jealous of the attention the other one was getting. The ‘unbirthday’ is a great tradition, stemming from Alice in Wonderland because although you only get one birthday, you get 364 unbirthdays… Anyway as a further thank you for your support I’ve collaborated with Appleyard to give my readers an ‘unbirthday’ present. Use the code BLOG40 to get a 40% discount off any of the flowers on their website for a perfect present for birthday, Christmas or as a reward to yourself!*

After admiring my beautiful flowers, Mr S was keen to crack the bubbly open. We love having a glass of champers before going out but when’s just the two of us we usually get a mini bottle so that we don’t over do it before going out…

Mr S had bought a lovely bottle of Ruinart Blanc de Blancs so that we could start the night in style!

And now fully equipped with a glass of champers in hand I opened my main present from Mr S.

This totally beautiful Burberry coat.Mr Silver is a man of taste, but a coat is a difficult thing to get right and we’d chosen it together the previous weekend. But I hadn’t been allowed to wear it until the day of my birthday. Being petite I find it hard to get coats, the sleeves are always too long and things like that but this coat fitted like a dream, like it was made for me.

While in Burberry, I spied this gorgeous bag…

…electric blue being one of my favourite colours and my lovely and generous mum, Susan SilverSpoon, bought it for me as a birthday present.**

Outfit complete, we headed to our dining destination, Roka Mayfair

Mr Silver and I love Roka in Charlotte Street, it’s one of our favourite restaurants, and we were keen to try the new one in Mayfair. Well, it’s new-ish as another Roka has now opened in Aldwych.

The interior of the restaurant is super-cool. There’s a big open kitchen in the centre and patrons dine at the counter or at the carved wooden tables in the restaurant. I’d expected the Mayfair branch to be very similar to the Charlotte Street one and, while the decor was similar, the vibe is quite different. Charlotte Street feels quite casual, while the low lighting and intimate feel in Mayfair makes it feel chic, sexy and seductive… the perfect place for a birthday date night.

Look at my big smile in anticipation of wonderful sushi!!

And Mr S knows he’s about to have a very happy wife!

It’s a gorgeously crisp champagne that we thoroughly enjoyed, though not one that we usually order.

First up is our very favourite dish, one we nearly alway order: tuna tataki, and Roka’s version has a delicious apple mustard dressing.

 

Next was a feather-light yellow tail  sashimi.

 

Though sushi is my favourite food, I actually find that flavours hard to describe because everything tastes very clean and fresh. But trust me, Mr S and I made yummy noises about every dish and the pictures pretty much speak for themselves.

 

A perfect package of loveliness: black cod, crayfish and crab gyoza.

 

 

 

 

And as I’m not a big red meat eater I substituted for perfectly cooked chicken skewers.

 

 

A fabulous way to end a basically perfect meal!!

A huge thank you to Mr Silver who made me feel like a total princess on my birthday…but then he makes me feel like that every day 🙂