gabbneb i mean for all the talk of CTM being 'the nation's favourite dish LOL' i never think to have it and hardly ever hear it mentioned by someone else.
now i want to go to tayyabs again for the chargrilled lamb chops dammit
i thought about trying to eat at a restaurant for every country in the world or as close as i could get to that, in London, over this year and maybe the one after.
― blueski, Wednesday, 2 January 2008 15:27 (sixteen years ago) link
Where's the best Argentine restaurant in London then?
― Dom Passantino, Wednesday, 2 January 2008 15:28 (sixteen years ago) link
Stick to Gaucho or is there better off the beaten track?
― Dom Passantino, Wednesday, 2 January 2008 15:29 (sixteen years ago) link
Buen Ayre on Broadway Market seemed good
― blueski, Wednesday, 2 January 2008 15:30 (sixteen years ago) link
I ate Chicken Tikka Masala in December. In New York.
― Anna, Wednesday, 2 January 2008 15:33 (sixteen years ago) link
was it nice?
― blueski, Wednesday, 2 January 2008 15:33 (sixteen years ago) link
Not bad actually. But I was starving. It was a take out from Whole Foods. I ate it on a wall in Union Square.
Also Georgia deserves an honourable mention for wine, and interesting and varied uses of walnuts, pommegranite, spinnach and sharp cheese - but I've only ever eaten one Georgian meal in my life, so it's not much to go on.
― Anna, Wednesday, 2 January 2008 15:35 (sixteen years ago) link
buen ayre is incredible but a word of advice: have somehting besides meat if you plan on drinking heavily later on
anna there's a georgian restaurant just south of broadway market, i can't remember what it's called but it is thee awesome
― Tracer Hand, Wednesday, 2 January 2008 15:37 (sixteen years ago) link
it used to be on broadway market proper but their landlord raised the rent and now the former location is a terrible french restaurant called "la vie en rose"
― Tracer Hand, Wednesday, 2 January 2008 15:38 (sixteen years ago) link
orig restaurant reviewed by Freaky Trigger!
http://freakytrigger.co.uk/ft/pumpkin/2004/02/little-georgia-broadway-market-london-e8/
― Tracer Hand, Wednesday, 2 January 2008 15:40 (sixteen years ago) link
I think 'La Vie en Rose' translates to 'terrible french restaurant'.
― G00blar, Wednesday, 2 January 2008 15:41 (sixteen years ago) link
i will try that - only tried one Georgian place so far (Tblisi) xp
― blueski, Wednesday, 2 January 2008 15:42 (sixteen years ago) link
Holland--worst cuisine in Europe?
― G00blar, Wednesday, 2 January 2008 15:44 (sixteen years ago) link
depends on yr policy towards hash brownies
― Just got offed, Wednesday, 2 January 2008 15:44 (sixteen years ago) link
i would probably say yes altho you can get excellent steak there (not just in the south american places) and hey giant pancakes! xp
― blueski, Wednesday, 2 January 2008 15:45 (sixteen years ago) link
Yeah pancakes are about all I remember fondly.
― G00blar, Wednesday, 2 January 2008 15:46 (sixteen years ago) link
Tblisi on Holloway Road was the setting for my one Georgian meal - it was lovely, so will probably try this place.
The Dutch have... edam...
― Anna, Wednesday, 2 January 2008 15:47 (sixteen years ago) link
Bless.
― G00blar, Wednesday, 2 January 2008 15:48 (sixteen years ago) link
Zuurkoolstamppot, sauerkraut mashed with potatoes. Served with fried bacon or a sausage. Sometimes curry powder, raisins or slices of pineapple are used to give a stamppot an exotic touch.
― Dom Passantino, Wednesday, 2 January 2008 15:48 (sixteen years ago) link
I dunno about the best but there's a cracking one right on the heath in Blackheath. Also the proprietor is a weird ex-paparazzi bloke who looks like Tugay and began his career taking homoerotic shots of Che Guevara lying on a bed with his shirt off.
Chicken tikka masala etc count not because they are an example of England doing Indian food really well (it doesn't, by and large) but because they're dishes invented in England to cater to local tastes.
― Matt DC, Wednesday, 2 January 2008 15:54 (sixteen years ago) link
it doesn't, by and large
how come? i take it you're including Indian restauranteurs here
― blueski, Wednesday, 2 January 2008 15:58 (sixteen years ago) link
What is aforesaid cracking Argentine place called? There are a couple of South American-looking places there.
― Just got offed, Wednesday, 2 January 2008 15:58 (sixteen years ago) link
that's a salad bar, not a restaurant, but it's pretty great (if expensive) for a salad bar
― gabbneb, Wednesday, 2 January 2008 16:00 (sixteen years ago) link
-- Matt DC, Wednesday, 2 January 2008 15:54 (14 minutes ago) Bookmark Link
Think this may be Buena Ayre mentioned upthread: http://www.buenayre.co.uk/chemenu.htm
― Dom Passantino, Wednesday, 2 January 2008 16:09 (sixteen years ago) link
Also Georgia deserves an honourable mention
I ate in a Georgian resturant in Krakow, and it was fantastic, a very refreshing change from the Polish red meat n stodge.
― chap, Wednesday, 2 January 2008 16:28 (sixteen years ago) link
Yeah I presume they're owned by the same dude. The one in Blackheath is called Buenos Aires Cafe I think, served one of the best steaks I've ever eaten. I'm tipping Argentina to win the CONCACAF poll.
― Matt DC, Wednesday, 2 January 2008 16:59 (sixteen years ago) link
Ah, excellent. A good 30 seconds' jog away from the infamous Zero Degrees, too!
Any other good Blackheath eating-holes, just name 'em here. I've not been to that many.
― Just got offed, Wednesday, 2 January 2008 17:02 (sixteen years ago) link
It'll never win, but I voted for Romania, especially for its Transylvanian cuisine. But it should be said that Romanian cuisine has its own great oddball Latin sensibility and takes from the best of Hungarian and German cookinh, not to mention specialities derived from Turkish, Russian, Jewish and Greek styles. And some other places too, I'm sure. And it's dirt cheap. And the Romanians are lovely.
― deedeedeextrovert, Wednesday, 2 January 2008 17:05 (sixteen years ago) link
There actually aren't that many, the majority of so-called 'Indian' restaurants in the UK are run by Bangladeshis and what you get is heavily Anglicised. Generally speaking there are a lot of okayish bog-standard curry houses around but there's so much demand out there that there's not that much incentive for them to be much more than adequate.
Additionally there's a greater proportion of fuck-awful 'spice it to death or leave it largely tasteless' Indian restaurants in this country than there are for pretty much any other cuisine, although Chinese and Mexican may run it close. In my experience the best curry places (in London at least) tend to be either Pakistani, Sri Lankan or focussed on one region of India.
― Matt DC, Wednesday, 2 January 2008 17:13 (sixteen years ago) link
No Svalbard, no credibility!!
― JTS, Wednesday, 2 January 2008 17:34 (sixteen years ago) link
Where abouts are you Louis? Because there's a lovely gastro-pub type place on Royal Hill in Greenwich. It's called The Hill - love them for their lamb shank and not their uninspired name.
― Anna, Wednesday, 2 January 2008 17:35 (sixteen years ago) link
I'm Lee Green, myself, that well-renowned hubbub of fine dining. Royal Hill, eh...is that near Coombs Hill? Thanks for the reccy, anyway; I may give it a go! The best pub food I've had in an absolute age, incidentally, is the traditional-yet-sublime fare at The Mill in Cambridge. Their bangers and mash was streets ahead of any other I've tried.
― Just got offed, Wednesday, 2 January 2008 17:38 (sixteen years ago) link
There's actually a full-blown Greek taverna in Lee Green, but for some unfathomable reason we've only been there once. Reasons for this are unknown, but I think it may be because the restaurant is a) Greek rather than Greek Cypriot or b) not up to our relatives' home cooking standard.
― Just got offed, Wednesday, 2 January 2008 17:41 (sixteen years ago) link
Or c) we don't really eat at restaurants very often on account of cash/reluctance to organise, unless it's a special occasion in which case we'll treat ourselves to Zero D.
― Just got offed, Wednesday, 2 January 2008 17:43 (sixteen years ago) link
there's so much demand out there that there's not that much incentive for them to be much more than adequate.
depressing but applies to so many other aspects of life here i guess
― blueski, Wednesday, 2 January 2008 17:43 (sixteen years ago) link
italy or france are really the only two choices here.
― s1ocki, Wednesday, 2 January 2008 17:44 (sixteen years ago) link
having said that i've never eaten at/ordered from an 'indian' res and found it less than adequate but then the more you know the harder you are to satisfy xp
― blueski, Wednesday, 2 January 2008 17:44 (sixteen years ago) link
an 'indian' res
― gabbneb, Wednesday, 2 January 2008 17:47 (sixteen years ago) link
haha
― s1ocki, Wednesday, 2 January 2008 17:49 (sixteen years ago) link
can you stop doing this bullshit quoting thing? say what you mean or stfu
hugz
― blueski, Wednesday, 2 January 2008 17:49 (sixteen years ago) link
long year ahead...
― blueski, Wednesday, 2 January 2008 17:50 (sixteen years ago) link
sorry, i is just entertaining the north americans
― gabbneb, Wednesday, 2 January 2008 17:51 (sixteen years ago) link
an indian res (or, more often, rez) does not refer to a restaurant over here. not making fun.
what does it mean? *feels sheepish now*
― blueski, Wednesday, 2 January 2008 17:53 (sixteen years ago) link
1. rez
Native American slang for "reservation," as in "on the Indian reservation."
Ayy, there's always a party Saturday night on the rez, man.
― Tuomas, Wednesday, 2 January 2008 18:01 (sixteen years ago) link
serious lols @ anyone voting for anything from UK
― remy bean, Wednesday, 2 January 2008 18:01 (sixteen years ago) link
Someone's already claimed they're voting for Russia, which is absolute insanity.
― Just got offed, Wednesday, 2 January 2008 18:02 (sixteen years ago) link
maybe they like cabbage and a whole lot? even still, there are better cabbage countries ...
http://www.thinkvitamin.com/images/articles/features/cal/trifle.jpg
― remy bean, Wednesday, 2 January 2008 18:03 (sixteen years ago) link
-- remy bean, Wednesday, January 2, 2008 6:01 PM (1 minute ago) Bookmark Link
whole poll is ridic, but we get a claim on anglo-indian food and shit i dunno maybe food from the many other places we lorded it over, so we break even. eat that, france.
― That one guy that hit it and quit it, Wednesday, 2 January 2008 18:05 (sixteen years ago) link
culinary imperialism?
― remy bean, Wednesday, 2 January 2008 18:05 (sixteen years ago) link