london restaurants

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?

http://www.edwardian.com/brands/restaurantbrand-en.html

This is British Soul Food - food with heart that feeds the soul.

Always fresh, always seasonal, always locally sourced, and always exceptional value. Scoff and Banter - British food the way it should be.

You’ll find Scoff & Banter restaurants in Guildford and

there's one in soho too, i like its name because it's like a big flashing alarm saying "tracer don't come in here!!!!"

Was in Sagar at the Hammersmith end of King Street on Saturday for an early dinner and left full and satisfied for not much money.

surprised steak and lobster haven't been sued by lobster and burger

oh haha that's all i talk about it seems (since 2 months ago)

http://www.spectator.co.uk/life/food-and-drink/9304542/fischers-is-like-visiting-vienna-without-having-to-go-to-austria-thank-god/

what a url

Holy shit @ that first line.

Tags: Anti-Semitism, Austria, Chris Corbin and Jeremy King, Food, London, Restaurants, Vienna

That first line o_O

http://dalstonist.co.uk/a-death-row-themed-pop-up-restaurant-is-opening-in-hoxton/

well. this is happening.

These people's mamas didn't raise them right

Yeah, was thinking Death Row Records. Kinda disappointed its not.

Every time i read Dalstonist it strengthens my resolve to move to Norfolk.

Any good new restaurants around Covent Garden for a relatively inexpensive but formal business lunch? Went to Brasserie Blanc yesterday and it was fairly awful.

i was recommended 10 cases at the weekend

I like the Green Man And French Horn on St Martins Lane - it's an ex-pub and looks like it but the food is vg (part of the Terroirs lot).

32 Great Queen Street remains my favourite restaurant in Covent Garden by a country mile, but that's not new obv.

10 Cases looks relevant to my interests. Love a super-short menu.

Excellent. Thanks!