London - Fantasy Feasting

Based on the free papers on the Tube celebrities are forever eating out at restaurants. They may even be blogging about it for all I know. With all these celebrities forever feasting there is a good chance us mere mortals will see them whilst dining out.

It finally happened to me recently.

Before you scream 'what were you doing at the Ivy?' I have to tell you the location was a Dim Sum restaurant in the o2 centre on Finchley Road, North London, and the celebrity was Frank Skinner's other half, David Baddiel. (I'm sorry David but we're not exactly talking Hello magazine front page). I'm just happy we got a table after fighting our way through the paparazzi buzzing about outside.

Now the restaurant is part of a small chain in London so the menu is very familiar. I thought the dim sum was actually better cooked than the other restaurants in the chain and actually pretty good. The service though was poor with some our dishes never arriving.

Would I recommend this place? Well I have to say no as just getting there involves been stuck in a traffic jam in a car park. We must have been trying to get out for close to an hour; we even saw a couple of car prangs within the car park - no doubt caused by the frustration of the traffic jam (or maybe they were paparazzi?)

Traffic jams in car parks? Not really ideal for the quick celebrity get away after leaving the restaurant. No wonder it was only David rather than Kate Moss.