london restaurants

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.

Talking of The Rye, they had this Meateasy event on Sunday which was billed as follows:

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The "BBQ" was a fairly standard hog roast as far as I could tell, featuring a pork sandwich which was OK - nicely cooked pork - but woefully small for a hefty £8 price tag. Also they slapped a load of mustardy sauce on it without asking (no BBQ sauce choice, surprisingly) and I don't like mustard. Happily the sauce didn't taste of anything very much. For the first time in my life, I couldn't eat the pork crackling I was served - it was tasty enough but like vulcanised rubber, bendy not cracky. My first disappointing meateasy experience. Bah.

Thanks ledge. Ach, I've heard this Meateasy is less good than its previous location, and it's making me chary of going, or at least finding the meatwagon instead, and trying that.

they didn't make very amazing buffalo wings either when i sampled back at the new cross place. i will stick with the burgers.

Does anyone have any recommendations for decent places around Angel or along Upper St?

Nothing too fancy, just somewhere to have a nice meal with my girlfriend before a gig at the Union Chapel.

"Steak or something spicy" were her specifications, though I'd also welcome tips that don't fall within those brackets.

i've always rather enjoyed the small plates at cuba libre for this kind of occasion

i.e. cheap, good, flavorful and plenty of cocktails near to hand

new cultural revolution!

http://www.newculturerevolution.co.uk/

el parador rojo - colombian place next to 7 sisters tube stn. i was massively hungover, absolutely starving and deeply annoyed by the morons on the "unity march" yesterday, wound up here, had a fucking massive bandeja paisa - i was quite glad i was hungover for this, best state to appreciate it in - and OMG

Went back to the meateasy at the Rye last night - it was worryingly empty on a Saturday night. I'm delighted to say the burgers were A1, meatwagon on top form.

I was there on weds, pretty empty to start but doing better by 8pm or so. Didn't seem quite as good the first time I went, that could be just me though, does seem to happen a lot whenever I make a second visit to the latest restaurant sensation. I'm a terrible man for the thrill of novelty.

It's probably not the best week for pub passing trade though.

Probably not, but Franks (on the top of the car park at Peckham) was fuller than I've ever seen it. (This probably hurt The Rye a bit also).

Damnit I still haven't been there!

some of the anchor and hope chefs have been guesting there i think, or are due to. want to go but i'm away when some pals are checking it out this week.

these dudes are cooking there - www.youngturks.co - i would have liked to make it but i dont think i will

Would quite like to go back to Frank's - not sure I've really had the best experience on the last couple of occasions.

The Rye Hotel feels like... kind of an awkward place for the Meatwagon? I like the pub and it's lovely on a summer afternoon, but compared to being right on the main drag of New Cross it's going to suffer in comparison for both passing trade and people deliberately coming from further afield. It's a fair walk from any station for one thing.

The Rye can't be more than 400 yards from the station! But I know what you mean, it has to be a neighbourhoody kind of place if it's going to succeed.

When the weather's good, being in Frank's is a joy. It's never a comfortable place to relax and kick back, though.

polpo on beak street. YES M8. really great food, can heartily recommend. cuttlefish & ink risotto, orecchiette with crab and zucchini and rabbit/sage/apricot terrine all fabulous but it was the crushed broad bean & mint bruschetta that kind of blew my mind because i really wasn't expecting it to be noteworthy let alone amazing.

Took a trip to the meatwagon last night. Bit of a mission but totally worth it with the biggest and best onion rings i've ever had accompanying a mouthwatering philly cheese steak.

It was pretty quiet and Matt's prob right that it could do with being in a more accessible location. I think the Victoria would be a good bet for it, being a partner pub and although not exactly on an arterial route anywhere, is a fair bit closer to peckham rye station. still, will probably go back again soon.