I took this photograph of the view from our drive-way while waiting for Richard to pick me up. We were headed for Royale Eatery, burger joint extraordinaire, to meet Aaron for the first time. Well, I was meeting him for the first time. I used the panoramic photo-stitch function [awesome] which lets you take three photographs it then aligns and stitches all by itself. You have to help it out a bit: you pick a direction, take the first photograph, match up the alignment strip on the side of the image, and repeat process until you have three images.
Richard at Royale Eatery. Note his mangled right arm: we were eaten by bears on the way in. I tried to align the stitch with one of the hats on the wall instead of noting his appendages; hat WIN, arm FAIL.
Richard's turn. The seat lost some centimetres but was otherwise untouched by the ferocious bears. I, on the other hand, was pulling a bizarre face. Naaaaaiiiicce.
The restaurant was charming and cutesy. We sat in the annexe which featured the narrow seating space you see above. The hats on the wall were a nice variation on the expected photographs-in-ancient-frame-theme we keep seeing everywhere, the menus were printed in aged book-form (featuring 'tales from the meat grinder'!) and the waitress brought me orange slices and mint leaves for my mock-sangria. Again, WIN.
We had a feta-and-herb-bread starter while we waited for Aaron (suitably distracted by his ringing mobile, above left). Many empty wine glasses later left Richard and I glowing and giggling, talking about noise reduction on pixellation and religion. Those topics are related, really. Aaron is delightful, and the Royale Eatery makes yumma nom noms: I had a Norwood which is a hand-made, hand-ground beef burger with a three-cheese-green-peppercorn-and-mushroom sauce and sweet potato chips. They specialise in hand-made burgers, and can grind in a number of other ingredients to achieve the perfect burger taste. Also, it's the first restaurant I've seen that has equal numbers of fish, chicken, beef and vegetarian dishes. Aaron had an 'Ungrateful Basted' burger (basted, cute.), can't remember which burger Rich chose but it was equally appealing. Richard dislikes the picture on the right because he thinks he looks like Jimmy Carr. Uncanny!
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