Five things Fay Maschler ate this week

1. Artful, luscious, edible bouquets, posies, garlands, boutonnières picked from the vegetable and flower meadow at Michelin three-star Hertog Jan outside Bruges. Wagyu beef as well.

2. At lunch with one of my sonsiest companions at The Bayou Soul in Camden Town, the star turn gastronomically was blackened catfish with garlic prawns and shrimp sauce.

3. If only all chefs were like genial Stephen Harris at The Sportsman near Whitstable… but only he can cook brill braised in Vin Jaune with smoked pork, pictured, so consummately.

4. After an idiosyncratic Cinderella — last performance of the Mariinsky Ballet — an appropriate soothing yet needling prawn malai curry at Masala Zone Covent Garden.

5. The annual pilgrimage to Henry Harris’s Racine for classic roast grouse. Homemade damson jelly was the icing on the cake, the first course of garlic and saffron mousse with mussels a new necessity.