Where should I eat in London?

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Lichen

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viktorvaughn said:
Anchor and Hope on the cut is gorgeous food but very busy and no reservations. One of the OG gastropubs.

Bull and Last in Kentish Town is nice
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Anchor and Hope turn for lunch at 12.30, no bother.

The Eagle on Farringdon Road is the progenitor of all GP's, haven't been for years but it always delivered and felt pleasingly european in a way.r.
 
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mistersloane

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I got taken to the Saltoun Supper Club in Brixton a few weeks back :
http://www.eatwithyoureyes.net/
which was ridiculous value - 35 quid a head and bring yr own booze. Food and ambience was very good, would be good for a treat for a date or somesuch.

I think I like supper clubs, they're social, you dont get that 2 hour in/out thing, there isn't that horrible weight of having to be nice that dinner parties have. I dont go to dinner parties. I hate them

I've certainly enjoyed the supper clubs I've been to (all two of em) so far, in spite of the trepidation I feel on the day of going.
 
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mistersloane

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I thought supper clubs were wank, but just went to Cuba and all the decent places to eat there were in people's homes.

That's the most middle class sentence I've ever written.
 
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baboon2004

Darned cockwombles.
Looking at the website of that place, it's good (s)he's acknowledged resistance to calling it a pop-up (ugh) restaurant. And if you are a good chef but don't have the cash/will to open your own restaurant as such, seems like a good idea.

Dinner parties are odious. Eating with friends is good, calling it a dinner party somehow tips the balance into horror (mostly because it's eating with people you sort of don't really want to eat with).

mistersloane said:
I got taken to the Saltoun Supper Club in Brixton a few weeks back :
http://www.eatwithyoureyes.net/
which was ridiculous value - 35 quid a head and bring yr own booze. Food and ambience was very good, would be good for a treat for a date or somesuch.

I think I like supper clubs, they're social, you dont get that 2 hour in/out thing, there isn't that horrible weight of having to be nice that dinner parties have. I dont go to dinner parties. I hate them

I've certainly enjoyed the supper clubs I've been to (all two of em) so far, in spite of the trepidation I feel on the day of going.
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baboon2004

Darned cockwombles.
Can anyone recommend anywhere cheap and good within striking distance of Russell Square/King's Cross, aside from all the great Ethiopian/Eritrean places, and aside from Chili Cool?
 
Mr. Tea

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I love how the typical Dissensian would sooner admit to membership of the NSDAP than liking dinner parties. :D
 
Slothrop

Slothrop

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Mr. Tea said:
I love how the typical Dissensian would sooner admit to membership of the NSDAP than liking dinner parties. :D
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Dissensus parents tell their kids that if they aren't good, they'll end up listening to Squarepusher at a twee dinner party with some hedge fund managers in West London.
 
Mr. Tea

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...where everyone will discuss Ian McEwan's new book, in between talking about house prices...
 
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baboon2004

Darned cockwombles.
not sure. high degree of affinity with pleasure?

or maybe it's the other way around - being a chef is that stressful.
 
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mistersloane

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I actually got a cold chill from that dinner party talk. When I go to hell it will be like that. Forever.

Baboon you're close to the North Sea fish and Chips on Leigh Street, which is expensive to eat in, however does really, really, really good fish and chips to take away, and is the same what you get to eat in. Have the mushy peas. I don't like mushy peas. I like their mushy peas. See also their tartare sauce.

Opposite that place is a pub - cant remember the name - which does good Spanish food. A top tip is that they have a private room upstairs which you can hire if there's a few of you. No-one knows about that. Until now.
 
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baboon2004

Darned cockwombles.
hell is definitely a massive dinner party, sat next to the most awful people imaginable, where the alcohol has just run out.

Excellent, never heard of that place despite going to Chili Cool on the same street loads. Probably just blind. I'll check out that pub too - I must've been there, to be honest. Ah well, my memory is fucked.
 
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mistersloane

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baboon2004 said:
Looking at the website of that place, it's good (s)he's acknowledged resistance to calling it a pop-up (ugh) restaurant. And if you are a good chef but don't have the cash/will to open your own restaurant as such, seems like a good idea.
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He was really good, I sat chatting with him until about 2 in the morning, he used to be part of Les Trois Garcons and just got pissed off with the whole restaurant culture. He was very funny about, after it takes you half an hour to order a bottle from a sommelier in a restaurant, he pours you a thimbleful and (quote) THEN YOUR BOTTLE'S HALFWAY TO ZONE FOUR BEFORE YOU CAN GET ANOTHER GLASS.

If you regulate smack, it can give attention to detail, and people who pay attention to detail like smack because it gives lack of focus. Both are true.
 
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mistersloane

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baboon2004 said:
hell is definitely a massive dinner party, sat next to the most awful people imaginable, where the alcohol has just run out.

Excellent, never heard of that place despite going to Chili Cool on the same street loads. Probably just blind. I'll check out that pub too - I must've been there, to be honest. Ah well, my memory is fucked.
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Yeah it's this one

http://northseafishrestaurant.co.uk/

Pub is The Norfolk Arms.

http://www.norfolkarms.co.uk/

You have to ring to book the upstairs room. It was really busy last time I was there, bout a year ago.
 
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