london restaurants

no we didn't. we had that nice lebanese wine (whatever it was).

(Heh having checked back to what Tracer was disagreeing with, it was me saying "I would always, always take the wine flight". It's true that I always would - if I decided to take the plunge on a superexpensivo meal I'd take the full plunge I think, because I really felt it added new dimensions to the dishes. But I think you read "I would" as "you should" (understandably, since that's totally normal English usage) but I meant it in the former sense rather than the latter. I'd step down a level in numbers of courses and take the flight, if you see what I mean.)

ombra looks really good! looking fwd to trying it

have any of you been to the fox and anchor near smithfield market? was there on friday having a beer and a mate said the food was really good. you wouldn't think it to look at the place but we had a really great meal there. it's sort of pub food, we had whitebait to start and it was easily the best whitebait i've had, no batter, just deepfried and really well seasoned. with a few shrimp dotted around it.

one friend had steak tartare and the other had lamb, i had ribs, v english take on slow cooked ribs but they were excellent.

yay a groupon for sichuan folk
http://t.co/PtO8FsA

anyone eaten in the young vic? i find it v enjoyable. had a really great soft shell crab sandwich (entire crab, lemon, mayo, lettuce, soft bun) there last night after seeing "in the penal colony" (which was excellent btw)

― LocalGarda, Thursday, 14 July 2011 11:33 (1 week ago) Bookmark

been a couple of times and quite enjoyed it, good little vibe in there. soft shell crab burger is good but could be a touch better i think - crab's not big enough for the bun and idk about yours but mine had an unnecessary tomato in it.

really like the beetroot risotto with cardamom, been playing around with recreating that one at home.

Went to SAF in Shoreditch the other week. Pretty good, maybe the best veggie restaurant experience I've had outside of Brighton.

― dog latrine (NickB), Thursday, 14 July 2011 11:27 (1 week ago) Bookmark

terre a terre right? that place is fucking amazing.

oh wait i have been in saf though. wasn't too impresssed. tardy service and pretty pricey, and quite a clinical experience? rather go mildreds tbh.

I haven't been in SAF but they catered at a launch I went to and it was the worst po-faced raw food nonsense I have ever eaten in my life.

the subject of food at the young vic runs through this review of lear i wrote awhile ago -

http://freakytrigger.co.uk/ft/2009/03/king-lear-at-the-young-vic/

terre a terre right? that place is fucking amazing.

^ got it in one

if i were some sort of venture capitalist i'd be trying to get them to open something in london, all other veggie restaurants are straight bullshit. matter of fact it's so good it never crosses your mind that is is veggie.

i dunno ravi shankar on drummond st is pretty good

Had lunch at Hawksmoor the other day. Steak was fantastic - shared a kilo of prime rib with my luncheon companion. Though the other night someone who co-runs an always-very-well-reviewed London restaurant told me she thought, from their texture, that the steaks there were pre-cooked and then finished to order, rather than cooked to order.

i thought steaks were all sous vide these days

i dunno ravi shankar on drummond st is pretty good

also chutney's

this burrito place is great too if you're around middlesex st. at lunchtime:

http://www.theflyingburrito.co.uk/

― kl0ppa kl0ppa down (tpp), Tuesday, 22 March 2011 15:51 (4 months ago) Bookmark

god this place is gonna make me fat

soft shell crab burger is good but could be a touch better i think - crab's not big enough for the bun and idk about yours but mine had an unnecessary tomato in it.

no tomato in mine. i had the calamari there before and they were v good. it is a nice spot tho i agree, it's a bonus to actually want to hang out in the theatre as if it was a bar, as well as seeing a play.

Had one of the banh mis from Old Street today. AMAZED. NB had the duck one - I'm sticking to the ones sans paté.

Where exactly is the hot dog guy in Shoreditch? WANT.

the paté ones are good, are you suspicious of their paté? i think i overdosed on that place...

To agree with those upthread, SAF is good, but I keep meaning to go to Brighton solely to go back to Terre a Terre.

There are few things made with liver that I am willing to eat; I have tried proper paté and it is really not for me. Also, I am still scarred by my dad's frankly bizarre predilection for Braunschweiger, peanut butter and mayo sandwiches.

ah weird, i love liver. cheap, cooks quickly, and extremely good for you.

hot dog guy is closer to the tube, on the opposite side of the road from the banh mi place

Went to Chutneys for the first time in AAGES last night. Their gulab jamun is just ~heavenly~

Hot dog guy: not there today at 1pm. GRRRRRRR.

so was going to go the hawksmoor this thurs with a friend who's leaving the uk and some other pals, but both are booked out.

anyone got any suggestions for somewhere that's a bit of an event in the same way? i obviously have a few ideas but figured asking here is good. central london ideas might be good also.

Hix or St John's, both in Farringdon, would be good bets.

goodman is meant to be good if you really wanted steak? (havent actually been there tho so...)

doesn't have to be steak, i go to hawksmoor as much for the cocktails too i have to say. will look into these suggestions, thanks guys.

goodman is amazing yeah

rodizio rico? less classy but then you get to eat meat for 3 hours.

prolly better as a big gathering though.

yeah i hear you w/ the cocktails, thats why i havent given goodman a try

there's a hix in soho too btw

The Soho Hix with a pre-event in the really very good (and joyously unsnobby even for scruffy fatlads like me) downstairs cocktail bar might do you?

heh xpost, good thinking Ken.

last night went to a new restaurant in chiswick (v far away from home) called 'hedone' and it was amazing! v simple food, w/ v high quality ingredients, one of the best meals i've had in a while.

oh and i saw on some blog that those shoreditch hot dogs are now being sold at the bar at the hawksmoor, which is maybe interesting? not sure what they're charging for them

koba last night. still good as ever.

kobas that korean place? yeah i really liked that place the one time i went there, was just annoyed that they charged for a lot of the extras

yeah that's the one. wasn't cheap. but it was tasty and i like their settings. sitting at the bar particularly good and they tend to your food the entire time.

gonna try asadal sometime soon though.

also their seafood pancake still the best i had yet.

yeah i should probably go back. have you ever made it down to new malden?? some great places there

(ive only been to a couple, its a bit of a mission getting there)

I have been once! (after playing dinosaur golf).. they all looked nice i didn't know which one to choose. randomly chose one and it was decent enough. good prices. glad we all had internet phones at the time though so we Googled all the korean food names to find out what they were (the English names were just Anglicised Korean.. there were no explanations) Enjoyed a good BBQ.

(we were mostly noobs when it came to korean food)

Anyone been to Lupita? A friend is suggesting it for his birthday.

finally made the gruelling ten minute walk to buen provecho taco stall on lower marsh, waterloo. best mexican i've had in london (limited sample set). quality flour taco shells, tender and tasty chicken and pork, gerat sauces and dips.

Right, gotta go there. Is it just weekdays, ledge?

yup. noon till around 2-2.30, whenever they run out. near the start of lower marsh, pretty much opposite cubana.

We tried them when they came to the Rye Hotel on a Monday night. I am privileged to be able to outsource my opinion on Mexican food to my lovely wife, who actually knows what she's on about. She thought them pretty good, was very happy to have them tip up a few hundred yards from home, and bits and pieces we had were super-delicious. HOWEVER- not a patch on Tacqueria, was the verdict. I agreed. Of course. Still, a thumbs-up.