london restaurants

I'm glad you liked it, it's a big favorite of mine.

Which one did you go into?

Not sure - there appeared to be a cafe (which looked quite closed) and a restaurant a few doors south of that on Mare Street, which we went into.

theres only one tre viet now i think, the other one closed

Really??! Huh, I always liked the more cafe-ish one. Mainly because it was BYOB which brought down the final bill obv (not that it's very high anyway)

oh that's what happened?! i always thought it was BYOB, went there the other week w/some beer and they told me it wasn't. i was going to a gig at the O2 afterwards and we didn't know what to do with the beer so we just left it outside the O2, and then bizarrely it was still there when we came out.

went to pitt cue co. the other night. i've turned into a bit of a sceptic regarding 'buzz' restaurants recently after the abomination that is meat liquor but i was impressed. simple room, music not too loud, polite & helpful staff and delicious food. it wasn't cheap but we were splashing out because it was a friend's birthday. i got the pulled pork and beef ribs with the slaw - all very good. the pickle juice cocktail is..interesting. shame about the queuing but we got there 10 minutes before it opened and were seated as soon as door opened. worth doing if you can get out of work early!

I thought it was good value overall, food is fantastic, it is 100 per cent worth the effort.

need to get there

Their own "whatever" ale is very nice too.

yeah forgot about the 'whatever'. also excellent.

Is there anywhere to get decent vegetarian food in the Kings Cross area after midnight?

after midnight? i'm not sure there's anywhere to get decent food of any kind.

oh right

maybe I should widen my search then. any cafés/restaurants that serve decent food after midnight anywhere in central London?

i mean, i've eaten at smithy's pretty late (which is a super nice place, though i've never tried a vegetarian main course there), and they seemed remarkably sanguine about our finishing our meal at gone midnight, but we were the only people left at that point and i don't know if it was usual for them.

there's barely anywhere to go and have a DRINK after midnight

this is the most useless so-called "24-hour" city in the world

It isn't a 24-hour city, and anyone who pretends it is is lying to you.

if anyone works near pitt cue, the take-out pulled pork sandwich is jaw-droppingly good. i can't stress this enough.

in other vaguely gastronomical news, anyone been drinking the brodies beers? never thought pump ale could taste so good.

I still haven't been to pitt cue (either for carry-oot or sit in) - seriously need to scratch that itch.

I went to meat market, the covent garden branch of meat -wagon/-easy/-liquor, this eve. It just opened on fri, and I assume they're doing a pretty soft launch because at eightish it was really empty (and a pal of mine got turned away from the queue at meatliquor just last week). It's a funny place - basically a really wee gallery overlooking the jubilee market. Probably not room to seat more than 30, I wouldn't have thought, but then I'm a very bad judge of these things. It had a sort of 80s-wimpy-in-a-bowling-alley decor, and defo seemed to be more geared towards 'fast food' than the one behind debenhams; we had our food within a couple of minutes of ordering, I think. The burger was reliably great (I had a dead hippy again, as well as some jalapeno-cheese things, which were nice enough but a bit hot) but felt if anything even greasier than before. Maybe a product of quicker production?

One lolsome moment: when trying to find it we went a floor too far up the stairs and emerged into an aerobics class with hot gym people brushing around us. Felt a bit like the god I don't believe in saying "haw, chunkybaws, mebbes you should go here instead?"

I went to MEATmarket on Sunday around noon, and I must have been amongst the first lot of people to get there. Like the fact that it's easy to grab a whole table and didn't have to wait too long. Though the ease of getting a burger there might be a bad thing for my health.

Thought the burger wasn't as good as the ones I had back in Meateasy, but that's just being particularly picky.

Wished they had onion rings on sale though.

Ah, yes! And no bacon on any of the burgers either.

going to these guys' thing on sunday, looks like fun:

https://twitter.com/#!/BurntEnz

that looks great! i might head down to

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yeah it's their opening, they're teamed up with 259 hackney road, that new wine shop. certainly worth a try anyway. going to bodyhammer that night so lining the stomach may be wise.

and so are they going to be at that arch from now on? i live pretty close to there so it'd be nice if the food is good...

and has anyone been to that place on chatsworth rd? i saw they got a pretty good review in time out

think they will be there all summer tho unsure how often.

not been to the chatsworth road place but yeah, it's meant to be very good.

and has anyone been to that place on chatsworth rd? i saw they got a pretty good review in time out

my housemates and i have been discussing this for weeks but getting all 4 of us to a location literally one minute from our front door is apparently beyond our organisational powers

what's the chatsworth road place? (i am an utter idiot and after eight months here only just realised that the very nice chatsworth road is about three minutes walk from my house, i had kind of assumed everything in that direction was straight suburbia.)

it's called shane's

burnt enz was quite cool last night, did you go just sayin? i didn't get any food but it was a nice venue and was fun. london fields brewery also had a party pretty much next door, and they had their warehouse looking fantastic, really fun.

Probably not the best thread for this question, but are there any restaurants or pubs with decent food that will serve food and show football in the same room?

I rarely watch football, but am entertaining some visitors who want to watch the football. Any suggestions?

should add that burnt enz is really fun btw, not too busy, great beers, good music, and the food is nice, if a little expensive for small portions.

i see i mentioned it above too, but hadn't tried the food last time, it's open most weekends now i think.

went for the first time yesterday and yeah totally agree abt everything... think they should bring the prices of the food down slightly? it was really tasty tho

anyway, fun spot. hope they keep doing stuff

yeah defo. when were you there, we must have crossed paths i'd say. i was there from about 4pm till... the end. drinking 7.5% kernels all night is amazing but also means i genuinely don't know what happened after i left there at midnight.

i had the quail early on then one of the sandwiches later. for £7 the sandwich was tiny, bordering on ridiculous, but it was v good. the quail with sriracha was awesome. nice being able to get oysters in somewhere so informal too.

ha yeah we must have definitely crossed paths, we were from abt 5ish til 9 i think? sitting inside in the back corner. i had the sandwich and yeah it was definitely tasty but so tiny - one of the girls we were with asked for it to be done on the sourdough which made it quite a bit more substantial. i liked being able to get jugs of beer

went to asakusa (japanese restaurant) right by mornington crescent tube last night. best japanese i've had in london and japanese food is prob the one thing i actually know my shit abt.

that place is great - and so cheap!

ha yeah we must have definitely crossed paths, we were from abt 5ish til 9 i think? sitting inside in the back corner. i had the sandwich and yeah it was definitely tasty but so tiny - one of the girls we were with asked for it to be done on the sourdough which made it quite a bit more substantial. i liked being able to get jugs of beer

i was initially sitting on the last table on your left as you walk into the bar, then standing near the toilets (only way to describe location) one other guy and two girls.

those beers are brewed at dukes brew and que, which i think i forgot to post about here, a bit overrated in my view, partly because pitt que is untouchable.

gonna check out netil market today, some good new pop-ups starting a sunday thing that'll run for the summer.

also in the neighbourhood, i saw this yesterday - http://fatfoodtaxi.com/lardo-the-restaurant/

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ah that lardo looks interesting. the food in the london fields brewery is crap btw... burnt enz just kinda better on every level, if they weren't next door it wouldn't be so stark a contrast.

for anyone thinking of trying pitt cue, i kinda think the initial madness as died down. walked in tonight and was served v quickly, and same thing happened me the sat of the jubilee weekend.

and if anything it's improved.

I still haven't been to the restaurant, but the van reopened on hungerford bridge a couple of weeks ago and that was A+++

guys

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apparently in soft open for the next few days, i.e. 50% off: http://londontheinsideswag.blogspot.co.uk/2012/06/50-off-food_16.html

think it's likely me and some mates will be doing some djing stuff at burnt enz... more to follow. would be good to see some of you coming along.