Friday Night Dinner: The Hero
The Hero has had many names in the past: idlewild when I moved into the area 15+ years ago. Via the Trustcot Arms, and The Hero of Maida, it now operates under the name The Hero.
It's a delightful pub, attracting a younger crowd on the ground floor, with two more floors above doing dinner. We had a table on the top floor, dubbed the Library, which provided a more relaxed setting than the busy hubbub of the pub below.
Both of us chose a bar snack as a starter. My wife had a fish finger roll. The roll was a lovely soft and sweet bun. The fish fingers were hand-made and resembled smaller versions of the fish in "fish and chips". The tartare sauce added some salt and sourness to it. I had the pork pie as a starter. The pork was well seasoned, and the pickled cauliflower and green bean parts added some nice and sharp sourness.
Four our mains, I enjoyed a Barnsley Chop — succulent lamb on the bone with a mint and lamb sauce. It was server with sweet and tender carrots. My wife had a whole butterflied mackerel on the bone from the special menu. It was well cooked, and served with a tomato sauce — which she thought was slightly too salty.
A bottle of a white Ochoa Blanco complemented our meal well.
It's a little on the pricier side, but the food at The Hero was excellent, and the staff friendly and competent. A worthwhile upgrade to the neighbourhood.
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But the best thing I saw on my stroll through London's Richmond Park yesterday, was finding a nest of Sparrowhawks.
There was one parent and two juveniles.
First they were soaring overhead, before one of them landed in a tree right in front of me.
A while later, I saw them in the air again, where one of them let go of some food, which another grabbed right from the air.
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I had a stroll through London's Richmond Park yesterday.
I found quite a few Green and Great-Spotted Woodpeckers!
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Staring Contest with an Owl
This Little Owl stared at me intensely for a fair amount of time in London's Bushy Park.
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Little Owl owlet
This lovely owlet was quite easy to find in a London Park, with some help as they camouflage so well!
I saw its sibling too.
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I went to a park (Bushy Park) to look for some owls.
I found Owls (Little and Tawny), but also a Green Woodpecker and two Kingfishers.
Snaps from my camera screen, and real photos will follow, but not of the Kingfishers as they were too far away and the photos are blurry.
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