― gareth, Monday, 3 December 2001 01:00 (11 years ago) Permalink
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― Sarah, Monday, 3 December 2001 01:00 (11 years ago) Permalink
when you asked for small noodle soup it was as big as yr head (if yr head was liquid and in a bowl); i never dared ask for large noodle soup, in case the seas ran dry and it was my greedy fault
― mark s, Monday, 3 December 2001 01:00 (11 years ago) Permalink
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As the WCDS is starting soon I will be able to give more info, but Ethiopian Merkato on Caledonian Road is good, Crouch End (wherever the fuck that is) is full of top restaurants but latest discover of BYO curry house just off Marchomont Street in central London has had me going back 4 times in 2 weeks.
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― gareth (gareth), Sunday, 27 October 2002 21:43 (10 years ago) Permalink
The Gate in Hammersmith is better than the one next to my house. Rasa in Stoke Newington is better than the one near Oxford Circus. But the best vegetarian restaurant in London is Manna, on Erskine Road, near Primrose Hill. I love this place (it equals The Gate for tastiness of food, and has a much better atmosphere).
― Eyeball Kicks (Eyeball Kicks), Sunday, 27 October 2002 22:22 (10 years ago) Permalink
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― Pete (Pete), Monday, 28 October 2002 10:31 (10 years ago) Permalink
Kulu Kulu sushi in Brewer Street.
Mandola in Westbourne Grove.
Churchill Arms pub thai in Kensington.
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― gareth (gareth), Monday, 27 January 2003 12:54 (10 years ago) Permalink
but then im with some other people later in the week and we need another recommendation.
― gareth (gareth), Monday, 27 January 2003 17:25 (10 years ago) Permalink
― Ed (dali), Monday, 27 January 2003 18:10 (10 years ago) Permalink
― Sarah (starry), Monday, 27 January 2003 18:13 (10 years ago) Permalink
They recommend the place you mention sarah
― Alan (Alan), Monday, 27 January 2003 18:19 (10 years ago) Permalink
sushi-say is like 15mins walk from my house...
― toby (tsg20), Monday, 27 January 2003 18:21 (10 years ago) Permalink
― gareth (gareth), Thursday, 6 February 2003 13:24 (10 years ago) Permalink
Sarah, sushi-say is fantastic, and the chef thre is very very cool.
― chris (chris), Thursday, 6 February 2003 13:29 (10 years ago) Permalink
― Tag, Thursday, 6 February 2003 13:40 (10 years ago) Permalink
I've heard far too many stories about Pollo ever to go back there, which is a shame as I used to like it.
― chris (chris), Thursday, 6 February 2003 13:49 (10 years ago) Permalink
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― Ed (dali), Thursday, 6 February 2003 22:03 (10 years ago) Permalink
O WAIT i actually phoned the grapes up and they DO do food on sundays it's just not the main menu
sorted
― flamenco drop (lex pretend), Saturday, 6 April 2013 13:41 (1 month ago) Permalink
was gonna suggest wetherspoons but this is probably a better option
― ^ sarcasm (ken c), Saturday, 6 April 2013 16:31 (1 month ago) Permalink
Not a restaurant as such but the gelato at Cremeria Vienna on Blackstock Road is excellent. Probably as good as anything I've had outside of Florence and reasonably priced.
― Des Fusils Pour Banter (ShariVari), Sunday, 7 April 2013 21:35 (1 month ago) Permalink
otm- I live over by clissold park and quite often get off the tube a couple of stops early to walk by this place. I think I read maybe it's quite a big chain in italy?
― sktsh, Sunday, 7 April 2013 21:52 (1 month ago) Permalink
not really a restaurant question per se but does anyone have any recommendations where to buy good crab meat in london? suzy?
on restaurants, has anyone been to beard to tail? am going next week, the menu looks brilliant but the reviews i've seen have been...mixed
― flamenco drop (lex pretend), Friday, 12 April 2013 08:40 (1 month ago) Permalink
re: crab, steve hatt on essex rd
― just sayin, Friday, 12 April 2013 09:21 (1 month ago) Permalink
ahh thx for that!
― flamenco drop (lex pretend), Friday, 12 April 2013 10:22 (1 month ago) Permalink
Steve Hatt seconded. But the Chapel Market fishmonger's stall is also a good option - and a bit kinder on the wallet.
― karl lagerlout (suzy), Friday, 12 April 2013 10:42 (1 month ago) Permalink
On crab meat, depends if you want fresh or frozen. If you're happy with the frozen, the big Chinese supermarkets are fine. (Wing Yip, at Staples Corner, also has one of the best wet fish counters I've ever seen in the UK, specialist fishmongers included.)
― Trans-Europe Stopping Train (ithappens), Friday, 12 April 2013 11:02 (1 month ago) Permalink
anyone been anywhere good lately?
was at quality chop house last weekend, it was mixed, really. great wine, some good dishes, some stuff a bit weird or disappointing. probably would go back but more as a small plate and a drink type place.
also the street kitchen pop-up on shoreditch high street is one of the better ones i've been to.
― ... (LocalGarda), Monday, 13 May 2013 09:43 (5 days ago) Permalink
that sucks to hear, was just going to book in quality chop house for my gf's birthday
― just sayin, Monday, 13 May 2013 09:47 (5 days ago) Permalink
Finally going to trullo next week!
― sktsh, Monday, 13 May 2013 10:00 (5 days ago) Permalink
Went to NOPI a couple of weeks back. The vegetarian main dish was a bit of a let down but other mains were good, I was told. The small plates really made up for it, as you'd imagine. We were downstair in the store cupboard, good use of space!
― mmmm, Monday, 13 May 2013 10:01 (5 days ago) Permalink
i wouldn't say definitely avoid - about 60 per cent of what we got was good. it was just a bit odd, eg my cousin got kid and it came with just... loads of boiled potatoes, which were fairly nice but a bit weird as a side dish. rillettes tasted a bit gone, a friend got those and sent them back. mine was good overall without blowing my mind, i had veal offal for main and quail with morcilla to start. the wine is amazing.
we ate in the bar so it may be diff in the main room.
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― ... (LocalGarda), Monday, 13 May 2013 10:03 (5 days ago) Permalink
― flamenco drop (lex pretend), Friday, April 12, 2013 8:40 AM (1 month ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
in the event this was teeeerrrrrrible, fyi. not even the the way i ordered saddleback bacon with cockles and they only bothered to tell me they had no cockles that day when they brought the dish to me cockle-free, nor even that i had to ask them twice to bring that dish back to me because we were pushed for time and i decided to have it anyway (they gave it to us free), but mostly because it was the most disgustingly salty meal i've ever had in any restaurant, let alone one costing £15.
― flamenco drop (lex pretend), Monday, 13 May 2013 10:18 (5 days ago) Permalink
otoh this is barely in london but i was there this weekend with the bf and the food was absolutely incredible http://www.swaninndenham.co.uk/
― flamenco drop (lex pretend), Monday, 13 May 2013 10:20 (5 days ago) Permalink
in the event this was teeeerrrrrrible, fyi.
yeah i'd read awful reviews.
― ... (LocalGarda), Monday, 13 May 2013 10:21 (5 days ago) Permalink
At the top end, went to Galvin at Windows, on the top floor of the Park Lane Hilton, last week. The food is fantastic but the view is pretty difficult to beat, even though if you're in a couple one of you has to draw the short straw of facing into the restaurant. That was me, in that case.
― Matt DC, Monday, 13 May 2013 10:24 (5 days ago) Permalink
i'd been hoping beard to tail would have taken the sundry criticisms on board in the intervening months since the terrible reviews but nope, neither service-wise nor food-wise. you wonder what they're playing at if they can't get the basics right. i guess the cocktails are good
― flamenco drop (lex pretend), Monday, 13 May 2013 10:25 (5 days ago) Permalink
So it was basically just a plate of bacon?
― sktsh, Monday, 13 May 2013 10:38 (5 days ago) Permalink
a plate of really salty bacon in whatever the sauce was. i got an extra starter (that wasn't free) of rather average, overly greasy squid to make up for it.
― flamenco drop (lex pretend), Monday, 13 May 2013 10:49 (5 days ago) Permalink
jeez
― sktsh, Monday, 13 May 2013 10:54 (5 days ago) Permalink
I had excellent, cheap Vietnamese at Cafe East in Surrey Quays on Friday. Not what you'd expect from an Odeon/Hollywood Bowl car park restaurant at all, and I will be going back.
― Madchen, Monday, 13 May 2013 11:50 (5 days ago) Permalink
Surrey Quays = best place in London.
― the Shearer of simulated snowsex etc. (Dwight Yorke), Monday, 13 May 2013 14:39 (5 days ago) Permalink
pub in london that can fit approx 20 people, good range of beer, pref central london, not noisy, any tips?
if it can be hired all the better but not essential. pool table would be good.
― ^ sarcasm (ken c), Friday, 17 May 2013 08:19 (Yesterday) Permalink
e.g. pembury would be good if it weren't in hackney
― ^ sarcasm (ken c), Friday, 17 May 2013 08:20 (Yesterday) Permalink
http://www.queensheadlondon.com/
had my 30th here. it's v quiet at weekends, lovely pub, amazing beer selection, and quite nice ploughmans/pies. the guy will reserve tables for you if you email him.
― ... (LocalGarda), Friday, 17 May 2013 08:38 (Yesterday) Permalink
Yeah the Queen's Head is a good one. The room upstairs at the Crown in Clerkenwell can be hired out as well and that's lovely, no pool table though.
― Matt DC, Friday, 17 May 2013 09:27 (Yesterday) Permalink
fucking hate the pembury
― r|t|c, Friday, 17 May 2013 10:00 (Yesterday) Permalink
Yeah I've never seen the appeal, it's weirdly devoid of atmosphere.
― Matt DC, Friday, 17 May 2013 10:05 (Yesterday) Permalink
really horrible family atmosphere.
― ... (LocalGarda), Friday, 17 May 2013 10:09 (Yesterday) Permalink
joking but you get me.
― ... (LocalGarda), Friday, 17 May 2013 10:10 (Yesterday) Permalink
Also there always seem to be like three dudes sitting on their own with laptops and headphones plugged in.
― Matt DC, Friday, 17 May 2013 10:10 (Yesterday) Permalink
and they dont even have a pool table any more iirc
― just sayin, Friday, 17 May 2013 10:14 (Yesterday) Permalink
where do you all go for a beer these days? kinda revolve between palm tree, the camel as it's right beside my flat (and has improved a bit, plus sells redchurch beers), the cock tavern, and occasionally well and bucket on bethnal green road, it's alright really, not amazing.
― ... (LocalGarda), Friday, 17 May 2013 10:16 (Yesterday) Permalink
i always push for the cock tavern but my friends like going to the scolt head :/
― just sayin, Friday, 17 May 2013 10:31 (Yesterday) Permalink
I always like the scolt head more than I think I will
― sktsh, Friday, 17 May 2013 10:34 (Yesterday) Permalink
there are a lot of terrible ppl there
― just sayin, Friday, 17 May 2013 10:35 (Yesterday) Permalink
that is definitely true. I think I always end up happy because a pint is cheaper than it looks like it would charge.
― sktsh, Friday, 17 May 2013 10:37 (Yesterday) Permalink
i hate the scolt.
the palm tree still is the place where i find you're most likely to meet people or make some new friends.
― ... (LocalGarda), Friday, 17 May 2013 10:38 (Yesterday) Permalink
been going to the old coffee house in soho a bit lately. it's fairly divey, tho no more than most soho pubs. it has really nice brodies ale and it's 3.50 a pint.
― ... (LocalGarda), Friday, 17 May 2013 10:39 (Yesterday) Permalink
The Scolt Head is legit one of the worst pubs I've ended up in in London, outside of yr standard West End vertical drinking holes and depressing outer London high street places. Like you can see how in a different part of town it might be good, and it's not like there aren't great little back street pubs elsewhere in the area, but that place just has so many cunts in it.
― Matt DC, Friday, 17 May 2013 10:40 (Yesterday) Permalink
It's the shape of the pub and everything, it's just a crappy space. It reminds me of being in my local back in Dublin, and not in a good way.
― ... (LocalGarda), Friday, 17 May 2013 10:43 (Yesterday) Permalink
*shuffles back under rock*
― sktsh, Friday, 17 May 2013 10:47 (Yesterday) Permalink
I think the Scolt is ace when it's quiet in the afternoon. We used to do our performance reviews there when I worked at the Duke. They were less ace.
― Tim, Friday, 17 May 2013 10:49 (Yesterday) Permalink
I am probably asking the wrong people here but I have a bit of time to kill near Tooting Broadway station this evening while waiting for someone. Is there anywhere that suits a quiet beer with a book in the area? This may be impossible on a Friday night and I'm sort of expecting rampaging Aussies but you never know. It's not a place I know at all.
― Matt DC, Friday, 17 May 2013 10:50 (Yesterday) Permalink
haha sorry for flinging "my opinions" at you.
― ... (LocalGarda), Friday, 17 May 2013 10:56 (Yesterday) Permalink
lol no was joking. Can't deny it's full of cunts.
― sktsh, Friday, 17 May 2013 11:00 (Yesterday) Permalink
Normally go to my local wetherspoons in Brockley but if I'm actually properly going for a pint I love the following:
Marquis of Granby in New Cross (really cozy, err 'traditional' pub, full of NX locals and art students. Could happily sit there all night. My housemate did last year. For ten nights in a row. He spent at least £500. Oops)
Stormbird in Camberwell (does crafty type beers, nice and quiet, well laid out, not vastly expensive)
Royal Albert (it's an Antic pub so you know what to expect. Does a great roast as well).
― the Shearer of simulated snowsex etc. (Dwight Yorke), Friday, 17 May 2013 17:12 (Yesterday) Permalink
i swear the scolt head used to be perfectly pleasant back in the day when it was guaranteed half-empty. i've avoided it for so long that i'd be prepared to believe it's come full circle - à la the price george, which i found myself in recently and it was actually not rammed and quite nice.
have found myself in the old fountain near old st a lot recently as it's one of the boyfriend's favourite pubs. apparently the ale selection or whatever is good but i don't know anything about that. it's nice enough i guess. feel v lucky to have the elderfield in clapton as my local.
looking forward to being in the spaniards inn on hampstead heath this weekend! love that place.
― flamenco drop (lex pretend), Friday, 17 May 2013 17:26 (Yesterday) Permalink