Borough Market

Last Saturday I went to Richmond and to Borough Markets.

At Richmond I went to the shop of William Curley, a british patissier and chocolatier. I bought 2 individual cakes, a bar of chocolate, and a number of individual chocolates.
I really enjoyed the chocolate bar the taste and the texture. The chocolate was very smooth and not too sweet and there was a filling that had a nice crunch to it.
On of the cakes was an upside cone shaped and the other was a tart with salted caramel.
Both cakes were delicous. The cone shaped cake had a thin chocolate coating and was was interesting was on cutting through it, the cut is clean and the rest of the chocolate coating doesn't break. In side was chocolate and white chocolate mouse, choc sponge and raisin.
The tart was a shortcrust type pastry, with the caramel on the bottom and some layers on top of the that which also contained some hazelnut chocolate on top.
We enjoyed eating the cakes and there was no after taste as well.

I also went to Danieli Gelateria (close to the park in Richmond) and had a scoop rocher gelato. It was a dark chocolate gelato with hazelnuts in it.

Borough Markets sells nice flowers, but they are over priced - I picked up one stem of yellow orchids for £7 as a birthday present for a friend.

I really like eating pasta and picked up a 300g pack of salmon filled ravioli (£8) from the Fresh Pasta Company (based in Wales). I had them last night and they were yum. The pasta was delicate and soft (the pasta is made from '00' flour) and you can really taste the salmon filling. They were triangular shaped and flat. One side was pasta with squid ink (and so was black) and the other side was the normal plain (yellowish) pasta color. It does look quite nice on the plate. I dressed it with just a bit of extra virgin olive oil.

I also picked up some fresh Mushroom pate(£3.50). This pate is vegetarian and doesn't contain any animal products. I had it with ciabatta last night as well and was very good.