baboon2004
Darned cockwombles.
Been to that one (not to Fassika tho') - was a'ite, but nowt special. Adulis is still the best I've been to, but will try Fassika if I'm ever up that way.
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Been to that one (not to Fassika tho') - was a'ite, but nowt special. Adulis is still the best I've been to, but will try Fassika if I'm ever up that way.
thats cool man thanks for the tip on Adulis, i've often wondered when going past upon the bus! looking forward to checking it out
baboon2004
Darned cockwombles.
thats cool man thanks for the tip on Adulis, i've often wondered when going past upon the bus! looking forward to checking it out
Seriously, you have to check out the kitfo and dulet - unbelievable. And try the Eritrean honey wine - i've never tasted anything quite like it before (maybe Tokay, but not quite).
Coffee is great too - £9, so best to order for four people or more, but well worth it.
baboon2004
Darned cockwombles.
Also, since you obv know Seven Sisters well, can you recommend other places to eat and drink there (have a friend who lives very nearby)? Went to a great pub on election night, on West Green Road possibly?
funnily enough i don't actually at all, that restaurant is literally all i know of it!
baboon2004
Darned cockwombles.
Ah!
I remember when my ex and I were looking for places 5 years back, and visited one in SS. There was a fight literally inside the tube station that erupted when we arrived.
We didn't take the place (also because there was some mad thing of having to look after 2 cats or something).
IdleRich
IdleRich
I'm hoping this place is going to be good because we're going there at the weekend to celebrate being league champions - it looks pretty ridiculous anyway.
http://www.boisdale.co.uk/belgravia/
Lucky we're not going to win the league this time round or I'd probably be bankrupt soon.
http://www.boisdale.co.uk/belgravia/
Lucky we're not going to win the league this time round or I'd probably be bankrupt soon.
Perhaps a warm-up pint here
http://www.britishpubguide.com/cgi-bin/pubsearch.cgi?results:Greater_London:100322
then.
Ate at Wahaca in Covent Garden at the weekend after some good recommendations from friends. It advertises itself as "Mexican market eating".
Maasssssive queue (had to wait an hour and twenty minutes, in which time we went round the corner to Texas Embassy and ate our own weight in nachos) but served very tasty food.
The setting is somewhat like Wagamama, very canteen-esque. Not sure how authentically Mexican it actually is, not having travelled there, but it was good all the same. Would recommend it for a cheap, quick eat.
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Maasssssive queue (had to wait an hour and twenty minutes, in which time we went round the corner to Texas Embassy and ate our own weight in nachos) but served very tasty food.
The setting is somewhat like Wagamama, very canteen-esque. Not sure how authentically Mexican it actually is, not having travelled there, but it was good all the same. Would recommend it for a cheap, quick eat.
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http://www.timeout.com/london/restaurants/reviews/742.html
el parador, 245 Eversholt Street, Camden
best tapas i've ever eaten.
el parador, 245 Eversholt Street, Camden
best tapas i've ever eaten.
Ness Rowlah
Norwegian Wood
viktorvaughn
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IMHO Wahaca is not worth queuing for. It's nice to pop in for a quick lunch but it didn't seem like proper gritty street food if you know what i mean, wasn't that spicy or oily.
I agree about Wahaca - I've been twice, and both times the food wasn't that tasty. It should be great, but it isn't for some reason.
baboon2004
Darned cockwombles.
Slothrop
Tight but Polite
I think it's because for years, foreign food in Britain has tended to be both a) inauthentic and b) predictable and often shit, so the two have got bound up together. If you go to an 'authentic' indian restaurant the odds are you'll see more variety than you'd get at a generic curry house, and often because they're being deliberately authentic they'll have had to go to some lengths to get good ingredients and not taken so many shortcuts, as well as drawing on a whole range of 'traditional' recipes and techniques rather than a rather narrower set of 'anglicized' ones.
OTOH I'm sure there are housewives in India who by definition do authentic homestyle indian cooking but happen to be shit at it.
viktorvaughn
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This place is great! http://ediblelondon.blogspot.com/2008/03/el-rincon-quiteno.html
Massive mangal-sized mixed grills for 11£ a head (sausage, steak, chicken and pork chop) with rice and salad and litre bottles of beer for £6. Lovely staff too. Wicked vibe too it, quite shabby and chilled, showing sport on TV without sound.
Massive mangal-sized mixed grills for 11£ a head (sausage, steak, chicken and pork chop) with rice and salad and litre bottles of beer for £6. Lovely staff too. Wicked vibe too it, quite shabby and chilled, showing sport on TV without sound.