I feel the need to apologise for the quality of the photographs in todays posts. I have the problem that, whenever I am out at a restaurant with Goon, I am not allowed to take pictures myself. This is because Goon gets embarassed and insists on taking photos with his little camera phone.
I used to be the same way myself, but I’ve found in recent months that photographing food in restaurants can be quite fun. Big, famous resaurants are well used to foodies taking snaps for their blogs anyway.
The staff in smaller places are sometimes confused by my behaviour. But then i mention the website and, judging by the swift improvement in service and the looks of horror on some faces, they almost always without fail assume that my little blog is some big important review site. Of course, I do nothing to encourage this misconception. I do nothing to discourage it either, but never mind. This way we get better service. 
But unfortunately this time we have Goon’s dodgy camera phone pictures. 
The one upside to this is that goon sent me ALL the photos on his camera … including this hilarious one he accidentally took of his double chin.
HAHAHAHA! Honestly, how do you accidentally photo yourself like that!?
So below are reviews of two rather nice restaurants in Shepherds Bush. Enjoy!
I feel the need to apologise for the quality of the photographs in todays posts. I have the problem that, whenever I am out at a restaurant with Goon, I am not allowed to take pictures myself. This is because Goon gets embarassed and insists on taking photos with his little camera phone.
I used to be the same way myself, but I’ve found in recent months that photographing food in restaurants can be quite fun. Big, famous resaurants are well used to foodies taking snaps for their blogs anyway.
The staff in smaller places are sometimes confused by my behaviour. But then i mention the website and, judging by the swift improvement in service and the looks of horror on some faces, they almost always without fail assume that my little blog is some big important review site. Of course, I do nothing to encourage this misconception. I do nothing to discourage it either, but never mind. This way we get better service.
But unfortunately this time we have Goon’s dodgy camera phone pictures. The one upside to this is that goon sent me ALL the photos on his camera … including this hilarious one he accidentally took of his double chin.
HAHAHAHA! Honestly, how do you accidentally photo yourself like that!?
So below are reviews of two rather nice restaurants in Shepherds Bush. Enjoy!
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Comment by Goon — January 6, 2007 @ 7:17 pm
but funny…
Actually restaurant photos never come out very well, I think many bloggers have given up trying to take photos when eating out now; although some seem to get good results. Unlike me where they tend to look plain terrible!
Comment by Andrew — January 7, 2007 @ 12:18 am
I find it’s hit and miss. If I’m allowed to use my camera, which is a pretty old and terrible piece of junk to be fair, we at least get something a bit better than the phone camera provides. I think the one on this linked page is the best one we got so far - what amazing presentation!
http://www.roshani.co.uk/livingtoeat/?page_id=436
Actually, if you struggle with restaurant photos, and you’re on the nominations list for best blog photography (for good reason I think), I suddenly feel a lot better about these crappy photos!
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Comment by ros — January 7, 2007 @ 1:03 am
To be fair, http://www.roshani.co.uk/livingtoeat/?page_id=436 and http://www.roshani.co.uk/livingtoeat/?p=692 were taken by the same phone camera.
I think it just doesn’t like the dark; and most restaurants (particularly this one) are dark.
The Yi-Ban was very well lit, and hence the phone managed to take a photo
- Goon
Comment by Andy — January 7, 2007 @ 2:46 pm