Saturday night in Frankfurt, out for food and drinks and fun. Boyfriend had had his eye on this restaurant since he moved to Germany, and had been waiting for me to try it out. Vai Vai is a slice of hipster Italian cool that wouldn't be out of place in Shoreditch or the Lower East Side.
Part cocktail bar with DJ, part noisy, buzzing restaurant, Vai Vai serves up sexy Italian food not unlike that of our London favourite, Pizza East.
We started with Hugo cocktails - elderflower, mint, lime and white wine - whilst we perused the small-but-perfectly-formed menu.
Of the enormous starters, polpette (veal meatballs in tomato sauce) were tiny parcels of deliciousness, and the burrata was one of the creamiest and richest I've ever come across. Bistecca alla Fiorentina, so rare it was practically still mooing, was as good as anything we've had in Florence.
We left long after midnight, on the search for Frankfurt's famous 1920s smoky piano bar, Jimmy's, but the party at Vai Vai was just getting going.
Vai Vai is Italian for Go Go. There's isn't much to add to that - if you find yourself in Frankfurt, go.
