london restaurants

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:

http://farm7.static.flickr.com/6147/5983868407_7851634a0e.jpg

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.

going to go to meatwagon soon. Both times been to Polpe it's been incredibly salty, however I do also remember the broad bean and mint bruschetta, which was excellent. In fact I thought they did the more basic looking stuff best I think.

Taken to having plain or rosemary focaccia from Camisa's for packed lunch on Saturdays. Curiously undull and you can pop into gelupo for ice cream after.

The Victoria can't be more than 150 yards closer to Peckham Rye station than The Rye, can it? Would that really make a difference to your perception of its accessibility?

any of you ever been to Harris H T on Great Titchfield Street? discovered it on my last week of working about 5 mins away in yalding house...incredible Italian ciabattas, packed with rocket, tomato, smoked cheese or mozzarrella or provolone, and piles of whatever meat you choose like parma ham or salami or whatever. then topped with loads of really good quality black pepper. sandwiches don't really get any better. probably just as well i'm not still working near it cos i'd eat one every day. hilarious exuberant italian dude doing the serving too, making constant sexual innuendos like "you want a big one huh?" etc. and "i stick it in now okay?" as he puts the ciabatta in the toaster...

sounds a little like this place in new york - http://www.frankiesspuntino.com/17/17_menu.html

Meatwagon at the Rye last night.

Had the mushroom swiss (pathetically, I do still miss the Burger King Mushroom Double Swiss & the echo of its name led me to choose this) - not sure it tasted especially different from the standard burger, but that's not exactly a tragedy.

agree about location - out of the way for most people. it is a lot quieter than the New Cross Meateasy and it doesn't feel such an event without that noisy, crowded slightly hysterical vibe of the other place.

true but i'm not sure i want my evening meal - even if it is trashy burger - to be an 'event', especially when said event potentially includes hanging around on a staircase for two hours.

perhaps there is a happy medium.

true but i'm not sure i want my evening meal - even if it is trashy burger - to be an 'event', especially when said event potentially includes hanging around on a staircase for two hours.

this is basically why i have never tried the meateasy/meatwagon thing.

then you would be safe going to the Rye - sitting around in a fairly quiet, large pub, no real wait for the food.

not a restaurant, but we've talked abt beer here before - http://www.londonfieldsbrewery.co.uk/

then you would be safe going to the Rye - sitting around in a fairly quiet, large pub, no real wait for the food.
― you don't exist in the database (woof), Friday, 19 August 2011 10:48 (6 days ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

but then the trek to the rye is quite an event in itself..

anyone been anywhere good lately?

went to Arbutus in Soho and had the pre-theatre menu, £18, excellent meal. Tempted to go a la carte next time.

Went to Wild Honey on Saint George St (off Hanover Square) yesterday. Very nice.

Nice room - we had a booth, that was spacious for four, and private without being blocked off. I had a very good smoked eel starter, with a big chunk of roast pork (with a couple of bits of belly pork, with excellent crisp skin) and curly kale and beans, and a panna cotta with blackberries to fnish. Good service. Lovely meal. Not cheap, but I wasn't paying.

i went to the albion again last night and loved it again. i don't really get how most mains being like £9-10 can be overpriced as r|t|c intimates, (unless you just don't like the food i guess). i had the kedgeree which was very nice - i would have made it hotter but i have learned to accept that non-asian british restaurants just underspice everything

Ate in the jolly butcher on Saturday, stick to the ale, would be my verdict.

St John (the bar) on Friday tho, had never been, it was amazing.

can't really recall the specifics of my visit to albion now - it was definitely for breakfast/brunch so i can't comment on the rest of the menu - but far as i remember the fry-up was of a five/six quid standard. rather than one specific meal however the whole experience in general reeked of self-flattery to deceive; i've probably forgiven worse food in shoddier gaffs but you know when you just feel royally fleeced sometimes.

unfortunately i've been eating at hipster gastros again, so all i have to report is that the food at the spurstowe was really honestly shockingly impressive. instantly rate it above the prince arthur and the duke of welly.

will not defend the establishment on any other grounds obv - nowhere worse to be on a weekend evening if you're not in the v particular mood.

can't really recall the specifics of my visit to albion now - it was definitely for breakfast/brunch so i can't comment on the rest of the menu - but far as i remember the fry-up was of a five/six quid standard. rather than one specific meal however the whole experience in general reeked of self-flattery to deceive; i've probably forgiven worse food in shoddier gaffs but you know when you just feel royally fleeced sometimes.

― r|t|c, Monday, 12 September 2011 13:58 (8 minutes ago)

idk the establishment u refer to but i still liked reading this post reading 'albion' in the olde/poetic sense of the word

St John (the bar) on Friday tho, had never been, it was amazing.

― LocalGarda, Monday, 12 September 2011 12:45 (23 minutes ago)

^ one of the most enjoyable things you can do in london really

xp heh, no wonder at my trademark slide into sub-libertines cockney then