On one of the Hivefest evenings, I went out for dinner with a few girls. None of us had met before but we'd been interacting with each other on the chain for a while and this was the perfect opportunity to get to know each other properly.
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In my typical wing it style, my plan was to grab the girls on the first day and fix a time and location for dinner one evening because I know we'd all be there and wanted to see each other. Thank goodness there are others more organised than me. The week before Hivefest started, 
NOMAD
The restaurant is called Nomad, very apt given that we're from all around the world. It's not very big inside and very unsuspicious if you walk past outside. You probably wouldn't even take a second look at it because the entrance is quite small and they have a big parasol at the front. Once you enter, it's fairly deep and looks straight out to the river.
Food
We had the five-course meal, and the way they serve the food is quite fun. Each dish is inspired by a country, and when the waiter serves each course, he will take us through the ingredients, give us some hints about its origin and we'd have to guess which country inspired the dish.
The first course is raw seabass in beetroot sauce topped with cavier/roe. I can't remember which country inspired this dish as we were having a lot of fun playing the guessing game. This was my favourite dish as I love raw fish.
Then we, I mean Sara 😅 got more organised and wrote down the information for the dishes.
| Asparagus soup with pine nuts and romanesco from Cyprus | Kofta with coconut yogurt and cucumber and chives from Turkey. Image credit to |
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| Veal with black garlic sauce, aubergine and grilled vegetable from Argentine | Peach with almond slivers and berries from China |
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LITTLE FRIENDS
You may have noticed our little friends Snowpea and Sonia peeping at the asparagus soup. They were having a great time as we grown ups were chatting away.
The HiveFest daytime gatherings are great, like speed dating. You try to get to as many people as possible within a very short period of time, And as much as you want to talk to people for longer, there's that FOMO so you go to talk to many other people as well. Evening small gatherings like these are perfect to develop relationships, and dinner went on for four hours I think. I can't even remember what we talked about because the conversation just flowed. Random things, vegan life, sustainable living, American temple architecture, a bit about the war, but surprisingly not much about Hive.
Ukraine -
USA -
UK - myself Pauline
Switzerland -
And I felt a bit left out because all their names ended with A, except mine, so I decided that I'd called myself Paulina for the weekend 😄
It was great dining with your girls, and we must do this again at the next HiveFest!!!