Dinner and a show

You can get fabulous "dinner and a show" deals for GBP20-GBP60 on www.lastminute.com depending on the show and the venue for dinner. So last Monday I went to see Avenue Q with Caroline and Jayne and the show was absolutely hilarious!

I'd heard of Avenue Q before but didn't really know what it was about. Apparently it's puppets for adults. There's a song about how the internet is good for porn (sung by puppets) and another one about how everybody's a little bit racist....it's bizarre but true - and funny!

The dinner's can be a bit hit and miss. For example, we had an amazing dinner at Planet Hollywood of all places (it was the only place offering dinner for a comedy we really wanted to see) but last Monday went to a place called the Verve Bar which was mediocre at best. It's in Covent Garden on a super busy intersection and you'd think it would be good but it just wasn't. Last Minute had advertised the Verve as offering either 3 "nibbles" (appies) or a main course and a cocktail. So we get in, order our cocktails and were then told that they had decided to change their menu to 2 nibbles instead of 3.

Clearly we weren't too pleased with that as it's not what we thought we had paid for and the GM was not interested in talking to us at all! Luckily our friend Jayne has a friend who works for Last Minute - told this fellah at the Verve that and it was interesting how quickly he decided to give us the menu that we had paid for.

In the end, there was an awful lot of food, we had some pretty ok drinks but the service was shockingly bad. Don't think I'd go back there if I had the choice.

But.....I would recommend Avenue Q to anybody who has an open mind, good sense of humour and isn't easily offended. It's hilarious but just make sure you're in a laughing mood....