Simon and the Nepalese food

Simon (my best man) came to stay with us for one night last night. It was great to see him and have an excellent chat.

He was very kind in treating us to dinner at a Nepalese Restaurant called The Khukuri, near Haymarket Station. The food was very nice indeed but, what's more, the service was exceptional; let me give you an example:

I asked for a pineapple and soda. The waitress did not seem too sure so we explained it was a pineapple juice with soda water. A couple of minutes later, Karen spotted the waitress coming back in through the front door with a carton of pineapple juice in a bag - she had actually gone to a nearby shop to buy some pineapple juice (which they obviously don't normally have) just to meet her customer's request! Most places would just say "sorry - we don't do that drink here".

Top marks. We'll be back.

While on the subject of good service, we decided when we got home to have some ice-cream, although we had none in the freezer. Karen knew, however, of an ice-cream shop on the Granton Road that closes at 10 pm, so off she went. She came back with some Italian Mint Choc-Chip (delicious). She had apologised to the owner for cleaning him out of that flavour, when he replied: "Oh! No problem - I'll just make some more in the morning". So it was actually home-made ice-cream, and great it was too :-)