Armenia - how I miss you!

Anya and me came to cafe Armenia last night to say goodbye for this year as we're not going to see each other in London. As we got to the entry it was very dark inside so I wasn't sure whether it's actually open. But we looked at the opening hours board and it said they opened from 6pm 'till 10pm on a Monday and it was 6:47, so we walked in. Inside Serg (the owner) and some other guy were sitting in a far corner talking, there were no other customers. So as we walked in we stood still as we weren't quite sure whether they were open. And then Serg looks at us rather grumpily and says "What do you want?!"... I was taken aback a bit, but then said "To eat"... he laughed and asked us to sit down and his wife served us. Serg and the other guy moved into the back room and we could hear them talking. The other guy must've been a lawer or some other such person... they were speaking in russian in very high tones, and his wife between serving us would come into the back room and we'd hear her say "Serg, calm down please"... Thus the whole experience was rather surreal - only two of us sitting in a fastly darkening soviet style restaurant, and listening to a domestic arguement that's breaking out in the back room changing from russian to bits of english and finally armenian in very VERY high notes. When I went to order a coke though the lady asked if we'd rather have KBAC instead... and so we did... the spelling of it in english was 'quass'... :) ruskies will understand.

Finally after eating the wonderful Piti and Lamb shashlik on the bone (and Serg did come up and grunted that we had to eat the meat with our hands and not with the knife and fork that we were trying to do)... we dropped by my place and ventured our way to Polly bar in Brunswick street for some cocktails... I had a Damage Control followed by a Tuscan Monk, and Anya had a 'something or rather watermelon', followed by Raunchy Affair, followed by Whip me Slowly... at this point Jack joined in and had a Boags followed by a Lemonaide. It's great to have great family who are also your friends!