Valentino but no Rudolph
Wednesday, August 15th, 2007I used to live in Bingley, West Yorkshire and frequented Valentino’s many a Friday night. One of my favourite places for friendly and rustic, if slightly over garlicked and over-buttered fayre.
So when invited back for a birthday party recently, I was interested to see if the old fella was still there. The welcome was as warm as ever and Valentino remembered me (that’s the thing about an Italian welcome – they are great at pretending they know you, I’m sure he must have wondered who the hell I was.)
Valentino’s was founded in MCMXCV which sounds like a long time ago, but by my reckoning is 1995. I double checked my Roman maths by going to Google and typing “MCMXCV in Arabic” and the answer was duly computed. Isn’t Google totally awesome (say this out loud in a nasal teenage American twang).
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