There's the pizza takeaway place on Goodge Street which is great, and pretty cheap too.
yeah, yeah, when i studied in london, that place opened up (oct 1999, if memory serves) and it was certainly passable italian style pizza but it didn't make anyone homesick for NYC, if you get me...
i def spent a fair amount of time eating pizza in london and it varied from totally inedible to "fine"... places that people treated as destination spots there (i trekked all the way to Finsbury Park to try a place that an urban studies prof of mine swore was the best place in london) are places that i wouldn't walk 15 minutes for in nyc...
it seems like there are decent enough italian style pizza places in london, but every place that tried to do american style (or even by the slice) was just bad...
Where abouts is this on Allen? What's it called? I'm going to go later today to check the hype. If it's better than Vanessa and just as cheap I'll be impressed.
about 50 feet down from Delancey, accross from the totally awesome Congee Village... get the pork buns, they are better than the dumplings... buns are 4 for a buck, dumplings are 5 for a buck... i think the buns there are of my fav foods ever, i've prolly eaten thousands of them...
Fried chicken from chippies/kebab houses is always a bit crap... soggy batter and all brown inside, gross.
is there any good fried chicken in london? it's something you really have to seek out in NYC, most places blow... wheras every time i go to Georgia to visit relatives i end up having amazing fried chicken every single place i go... Mrs. Wilkes' Dining Room in Savannah may be the best fried chicken i've ever had...
if you get 'hot' rather than 'medium' at mucho mas (link above) it's very very hot, apparently - this according to my new yorker housemate, who should know a good burrito when he sees it. i get medium and it's very tasty as well as sufficiently hot for my limey tastebuds.
naw, most burritos in NYC suck... and most nyers are happy eating very shitty burritos stuffed with rice n beans (YUCK... SF STYLE BURRITOS=GROSS) at plces like Benny's Burritos or Burritoville...
Southern California is land of plenty when it comes to burritos in the US... i have not been to San Diego in like 7 years and i still have dreams about the chicken burrito from La Posta de Aculpoco on Washington St. in Mission Hill ($1.85 in 2002)... i came to NYC and spent years trying to find a good burrito and sadly, i never have... always w/ that damned rice in it, ugh... a burrito should be mostly meat, really...
the recent influx of mexicans has brought along alot of AMAZING little tacquerias and taco trucks, but you're better off getting tacos or even tortas at those places as opposed to burritos... i've never seen a mexican order a burrito at any of them, ever... mexicans in southern california and NYC are generally from different parts of mexico and think the SoCal ones are more of a burrito culture...
it's true about burgers and pizza - but so rarely are they both good *and* cheap. too often you have to choose one or the other. but then i guess everything's expensive in london. aside from gozleme (see above).
exactly... pizza should be something you can get decently on the corner and spend the same on lunch as you would at McDonald's... the fact that poncy italian style pizza joints serving truffle oil pizzas in london doesn't mean you can get good pizza in london...
i dunno, their may be decent hamburgers in ldn, but every single one i had was pretty poor... and really paying a lot of a hamburger is kind of a joke, right? i mean, once you pay over a certain amount, why not just get a steak, no?
strange, the culture that can make pretty yummy n cheap pies out of hamburger meat can not seem to master molding it into a patty...
