london restaurants

went to honey & co cuz of lex's review, and man SO GOOD. just loved the whole evening. will definitely be going back

also went to foxlow & that was a lot of fun as well

went to that paolina's caff in kings x and it was bogger than bog standard, wtf yall

paolina's has had new owners for a while now, sen viet is the one in that area now

in the market for restaurant suggestions in south-west now that i'm moving to battersea btw

South Asian in Tooting!

Yeah, the Keralan resto near St Georges is excellent - I forget the name, but it has/had decals in the window reading "Kerala / she is so lovely", and the food was mind-blowing.

this one? http://www.timeout.com/london/restaurants/apollo-banana-leaf

also i guess this when i'm feeling solvent http://www.gordonramsay.com/london-house/

I'm keen to try the Chicago-style hot dogs at Coffee Dogs in King's Cross. Also, frozen custard!

Actually, a quick google-map shows me I was talking about Sree Krisna, which is apparently next door to the Apollo Banana Leaf (at 192 tooting high street) - very fond memories of that place.

Also, the community centre near battersea park station used to serve amazing jerk chicken, though this was about 17 years ago

Not SW (though funnily enough easily accessible from Battersea) but the Anchor and Hope / Great Queen Street lot have opened up a place in Camberwell called The Camberwell Arms - similar kind of thing, shorter menu, more open-fire grilling than the other spots, the front part is still pub-like (and actually perfectly usable as a pub, in the way that A&H isn't really). I love it, it's only been open a month and we've been 4 times...

yum! might pay a visit there next time i'm at rat records. those guys have also got a great place in stockwell thats worth a visit.

Hey it looks like that coffee dogs place is making a stab at doing in actual Chicago-style hot dog, rather than calling a hot dog a "Chicago Dog" and not paying the slightest attention to the (v specific) Chicago style. Am already looking forward to hearing what my wife, a student of the Chicago dog, makes of it.

Well, they know what 'sport peppers' are so that is half the battle. My friend Sam(antha) has something to do with it, so am also going to lobby for corn dogs.

Hitting the food stalls pretty hard in Leather lane over the last couple of weeks. Thai Curries all tried so I went and had Tamagoyaki (er, omelette) and its terrific.

With bacon and vegetables too, its kind of dangerous but yummy.

That's my nearest street food (but you won't go wrong with the felafel shop). The wraps place near the el cheapo deli items stall is OMG, too.

Yeah that's next week.

I get fed at work so don't have an excuse to go that often, but <3 leather lane at lunchtime

Swear that I've had the equivalent of lunch grazing on the omnipresent CHICK schnitzel and soup samples. Think most would buy from them if they revised their prices down from £6 for a sandwich in a street where everyone else charges +/- 50p from £4.50, but until that fine day...

Tried the newly opened Q Grill in Camden today, from the guy owns The Fish and Chip Shop in Islington.

Disastrous.

We ordered from the £10 lunch menu. Then several minutes after ordering, we were told we'd be charged more than that, because the lunch offer doesn't start till Monday. Despite the lunch menu board being the first thing you see when you walk in. None of the mains come with anything, so you have to order sides. I had the southern fried chicken (£13.50) which, bafflingly, turned out to be a breaded chicken escalope. Add in some slaw and fries at £3.50 each and that was the price of a main course in a genuinely good restaurant.

re SW my Tooting recommendations have been Mirch Masala and Chennai Dosa, I'll be checking them out ASAP.

have heard from tooting/mitcham friends that the dosa is very much "a thing" there, and photographs suggest it is awesome

Srsly who needs restaurants when the wild garlic is up? Yes, there are places where it grows in central London. Made chicken Kiev last night where the internal garlic butter was made with wild garlic/green peppercorns/butter, was awesome.

not a restaurant but do any of you guys frequent/have been to the stapleton hall tavern near crouch hill? it's listed as having a pool table - is there one there? is it a good one? is it heavily used? (i.e. if i were go to there will i get a go?)

Nope, don't think it's had one since it was the Larrick.

ah ok thanks.

fullback it is then.

Is there anywhere to get a really good falafel flatbread in central London? And by that I mean the standard of any average hole-in-the-wall joint in Israel. I keep having terrible, lukewarm, soggy, underpowered stuff. Le Comptoir Libanais?

Not very central, but the place in Shepherd's Bush Market is pretty good. Ditto the place on Camberwell Church Street.

I like The King of Falafel on Judd St, but I'm no connoisseur.

I'll second Judd Street King of Falafel. Also not a connoisseur but I don't actually like Falafel, yet ate there numerous times when at uni so they must be doing something right.

There is a great felafel place on Leather Lane (look for the queue and the green/yellow livery, because I've forgotten its name) and passable felafel a little further down the street at a place called Chick.

Thank you all.

the hoxton beach falafel stall is really good - i had them at chatsworth rd market when i lived round there but i assume they can be found elsewhere too http://www.hoxtonbeach.com/index.php

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this cunt-run new restaurant opened down the road from my old house a month after i moved out, bit sad i can't boycott it in person/shoot withering glares at them every time i walk past

that's bad have you seen their apology tweets?

yeah the ones where the entire subtext is "but he was a CRIMINAL"? completely shit

i initially read that these people were owned by the same people who run pubs called the hemingway and hunter s (WHAT) in dalston - apparently they're not actually affiliated buttttt in the course of discovering this i also discovered that in those pubs, the urinals are shaped like women's mouths

fuck all these people forever

A sincere apology goes such a long way but that hasn't happened here

smdh what a horrible way to view the world

(the tweet that is)

I was intrigued about the Hunter S opening when I was working just around the corner; someone I knew went in and reported that the gents was wallpapered with p0rn. So that saved me a visit. I hadn't heard about the urinals - that's even worse. Ugh.

lol - i remember wandering into the hemingway a couple of years ago. big overstuffed, pre-distressed couches, dinners costing 24 pounds and "impossible" taxidermy "art" on the walls, all the while pretending to be a pub. the very worst, though, were the books on the mantelpiece above the faux fireplace. can you guess who the books were by? well you may have heard of him, his name was ERNEST HEMINGWAY. here are a lot of his books. our pub is called the hemingway, did we tell you that part?

the truth is that pub is named after wayne hemingway

ron hemingway

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there's a place opened on warren street called "steak and lobster" which seems to do a steak or lobster for 20 quid deal.. is this a fake lobster and burger? or are related??

that picture of the cunt-run restaurant never opened for me :( what is it of?

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