But when need be, I frequent an always-bustling bistro where quiche served with salads cost 25 reais, and a bottle of wine can be had from an incredible 30 reais (though I favor the 40-real syrah blend, still an absurdly cheap price).
Well, when I used to frequent them fog-fueled goth nights on the weekly – OK, so I still go once in a while – two of those songs were 80s cold wave band Eleven Pond's "Watching Trees" and "Portugal".
His restaurant reminded me of the noodle bars I frequented when I worked in Orange and Riverside Counties: the big bowl of soup, sides of bean sprouts, basil and peppers, the big red bottle of Sriracha, a squeeze container of fish sauce.
"Pulse is one of the places that I frequented when I was first expressing my new gender expression," she said.
When I call myself a frequent internet user, I actually mean continuous.
I met him in the Valentine in Gants Hill, a place I used to frequent when I was fifteen or so.
He often spoke of things giving him the pip or even the more politically incorrect gyp; he and my uncle referred to one another affectionately as "Batface", and on those occasions – which were frequent – when I became hysterical, he'd admonish me "not to play the giddy ox".
So it is with great shame, when I admit I have frequented this rarified air.
The frequent reality when I walked into the courtroom, however, was that I was just as likely to find myself staring at a pimple-faced teenager as I was to see a hardened criminal of several years my senior.
Victoria felt "sick at heart" to see her daughter leave England for Germany; "It really makes me shudder", she wrote to Princess Victoria in one of her frequent letters, "when I look round to all your sweet, happy, unconscious sisters, and think I must give them up too – one by one".
