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If we're talking about "not exactly London", The Oak in Newcastle is amazing. Service was lovely and the prices were remarkable. Big portions too, couldn't finish the potato skins starter.
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Going to eat out for my birthday on the bank holiday, any recommendations for around Clapham, Putney, London Bridge or Victoria? We're taking the train from Chichester way and meeting my brother if that suggest s other locations. Something with a £20 menu or the like would be ideal, so far we're looking at a bunch of places that do Evening Standard offers. Not really singled out a cuisine yet, Pont De La Tour and Blueprint Cafe look good.
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Moving to Uxbridge to study at Brunel, any good places there? Have a friend visiting, I think pub food, pizza or Mexican. Also good take aways, will probably want Chinese before I get shopping in.
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Aug 28, 2013 12:58
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The_Doctor posted:You'll be near me! Are you ever even home? You always seem to be flying around buying robots. angor posted:Northwood - Maharaja. I read that as "marijuana". My Nan lives in Northwood.
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Aug 28, 2013 15:02
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I've not eaten at many of the "high end" burger places, but ended up in the Five Guys in Covent Garden with a date and we both enjoyed it. A "small" fries was plenty for the pair of us, but very good, and the burgers themselves were great.
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Jan 14, 2014 23:19
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Man, Uxbridge really has nowhere good to ea- loving YES.
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Convexed posted:This is brilliant. Although Baroosh was a nice bar. Uxbridge = gets Five Guys, loses its only decent bar. Heh. Heard that about Baroosh, but never went. Seems Five Guys are expanding in the UK pretty aggressively, theres one opening in Westfield Shepherds Bush too.
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Any recommendations for the Angel area? Lunches in particular since I've started working there. Chipotle Burritos are fine but I'd like to expand horizons etc a bit.
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Doubt there's much of note, but I've just moved into Cricklewood, between the train station and Kilburn tube, any good restaurants or takeaways I should know about?
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Feb 15, 2015 23:12
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NLJP posted:Not so sure about Cricklewood but there's some stuff around Kilburn these days. Ariana II is probably the restaurant of note on the high road itself. It's a pretty good Afghan. Near Kilburn Tube you have the North London Tavern and the Kilburn Ironworks. The Ironworks just reopened as a hipstery gastro pub situation with some ok opening buzz and North London tavern has been that for a while. I've never had food there, though. Kilburn is only a 5-10 minute walk away, and I think I can use the bus on my Oyster season ticket, so thanks for the recommendations. Followup, any recommended pubs/bars for a first date, maybe more around West Hampstead?
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Feb 18, 2015 22:44
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Went to Herman Ze German in Soho yesterday, place is incredible. Cheap and tasty currywurst with a £2 glass bottle of really nice German cola. I already look forward to going back.
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Mar 28, 2015 17:26
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Yeah Bill's just exploded onto the scene, did they buy out an existing chain? Quick big up to Brown and Whyte in Kingly Square off Carnaby Street in Soho, chicken and craft ale specialist. Mighty tasty chicken, leek and bacon burger, and the sweet potato fries with feta and lovely. Also Franco Manca's opened dangerously close to my work, love it, I litterally ate pizza for lunch three times last week. Only a handful of normal pizzas (including cheese and tomato, and cheese tomato and basil) but besides being in love with the anchovy and caper one, the specials are often really good.
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Jun 20, 2015 12:55
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I'm going on a first date with a girl in Barkingside. She's drives from work in Leatherhead to Barkinside and doesn't fancy going home and taking a tube into central London. I'm in Kilburn and work near Oxford Circus. I think at this point I want either something on the Essex end of the Central Line or somewhere I can get to on the M25. Bit of a fiddly one I know, but can anyone suggest anything? Even just a town with good options will do.
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Jul 12, 2015 13:34
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Okay, are there any good places in and around Stratford City? My date is a tad fussy, but so long as the place isn't exclusively seafood it's probably fine.
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Jul 15, 2015 20:06
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The_Doctor posted:It's a second date, but it's not until September 12th. I seem to have found a sugar daddy. I'm OK with this. Somebody's getting a Combiner Wars Devastator!
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Aug 27, 2015 15:30
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I wasn't sure for a while either, dont feel so bad about it now.
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Aug 27, 2015 19:21
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I often go to Arang on Golden Square with work, I enjoy the lunch specials. More downmarket but I also quite like Bibinbap on Greek Street, for the titular dish.
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Sep 7, 2015 14:49
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Harvester.
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Oct 31, 2015 17:29
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Got a date Tuesday, she doesn't drink. Central London in general ), Soho in particular, any suggestions?
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Nov 6, 2015 19:50
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Has anybody had to look for low-carb options in central London? My options seem limited to: Chipotle - bowls are pretty good and substantial, and their website has a nutrition calculator Five Guys - bunless option, again tasty and a good amount of veg Tortilla, which I'm eatting right now and really isn't as good as Chipotle Herman Ze German do a sausage and salad meal advertised as low/zero carb Pret have maybe two salads with low carbs Are any of the salad places like Pure worth trying as opposed to getting salad and meat from M&S or Tesco? Even that seems pretty limited , so many of the salads are bulked out with pasta.
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I thought Itsu was mostly fairly high carb, all rice dished and noodles? What's a good order from Tortilla because I just had a chicken bowl and it seemed small and tame compared to the same thing for about the same price at Chipotle. With Five Guys I've been taking the bowl option, don't know if that's better, wrapped in lettuce never appealed to me. So you get a bed of onions and green pepper, good amount of lettuce if you want it, hot sauce on the meat, I like it. I'll try Chilango, I think there's a new one near here, and Benito's Hat who I don;t think do online orders. And I've seen I think GBK or Honest burgers bunless options recommended before.
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Jan 11, 2016 15:13
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I'm waiting for the Brewer Street one to open. Happy enough with Chipotle even though I have no idea how so many carbs get into guacamole.
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Horse Clocks posted::facepalm: I walked past that nearly every day for the last 4 years and always assumed it was just another tatty chain. I was really hoping I could keep that quiet... Yeah, it's great down there and easily missed, I've taken dates to Bar Americain for cocktails and had a great time. People just think it's a little coffee shop or something walking past. Not eaten in the Brasserie yet though.
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Feb 4, 2016 14:19
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AHHHHGGGG WHEN ARE THEY GOING TO OPEN THE BREWER STREET CHILANGO!?
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Feb 11, 2016 12:24
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Lemon-Lime posted:Franco Manca is both really good and absurdly cheap for London, too. Going by the Soho one, you can be in and out in little over half an hour too.
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Mar 21, 2016 15:54
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Any recommendations for date spots around Soho or Covent Garden? Ideally somewhere where conversation is possible 6-8pm on a Thursday?
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Mar 29, 2016 17:34
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The_Doctor posted:Brasserie Zedel is on the edge of Soho. It's fancy without being pricey. Pierre Victoire on Dean St is also nice. Not been in the actual Brasserie, I've taken girls to the Bar Americain cocktail bar though, which was decent. Think it will be busy on a Thursday but I'll look at it. Just trying to get away from the same few spots (there and the Arts Theatre Club)
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sweek0 posted:Yeah Camden Blues Kitchen is alright and gets some pretty good acts. Prices are high but it's basically to compensate for the free live music. Went for the work Christmas party, great hot wings, and the doughnut oreos we're worth feeling like a fat piece of poo poo for. On the Meat* places, I went to MeatLiquor by Oxford Circus because a few colleagues were doing the Dark Souls hot wing challenge and really liked it. Had their tower chicken burger equivalent and thought the meat was exceptional,
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Apr 29, 2016 15:53
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The_Doctor posted:It finishes today! http://www.techtimes.com/articles/142946/20160321/prepare-to-dine-in-the-dark-souls-3-hot-wings-challenge.htm The record in that branch was something like 90 seconds for 20 wings by the way. The one guy in our group who really went for it got something like 4 minutes. For just completing it and getting the shirt it seems pretty achievable.
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Rockybar posted:Can anyone recommend Brasserie Zédel of Soho? If failing that, somewhere which does good vegetarian food in the area. Looking to take a friend coming over to London, and I love a late-night dinner. Recommendations for a nearby trendy wine/craft beer place also welcome. Are you committed to Wine/Beer? Because the Bar Americaine cocktail lounge in there is really good, if a touch dear.
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May 23, 2016 14:41
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sweek0 posted:When in Soho, go to Milroy's. Always go to Milroy's. But don't tell everyone because it's already bloody busy. If that doesn't pan out you could go to the Arts Theater Club a road over on Frith Street, have been able to get in right after work on a Friday without issue, it only get busy ten-ish on Fridays and I don't think it's an issue most of the week.
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The_Doctor posted:Oh absolutely. Nottingham's become quite upscale, almost hipstery, bordering on the Shoreditch. I'm in Manchester right now and had my first Taco Bell today. You know what? Not bad, and would be glad to have them in place of the more widespread chains. Also churos.
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May 27, 2016 00:48
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pointsofdata posted:Best work lunch chain, go! What, like Pret, Eat and that? Which is closest?
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May 27, 2016 00:49
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The_Doctor posted:Right? I love Taco Bell and have it all the time whenever I'm in the US, so to finally have some more here would be aces. I know there was one in Leicester Square in the late 80s/90s but it shut down due to low sales. Now with our broadened palettes, it would be a perfect time for them to hit up the UK all big again. They'd have to compete with Chipotle and the other 3-6 chains in London now, even though they aren't quite the same. Have you been to a UK one? I don't know if they are even anything like the US ones.
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May 27, 2016 23:19
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Heard good things about Meat Liquor's burgers, though on the one occasion I went there I had a chicken burger, which was incredible so I could believe the rest of the menu is up to that. I also have a great fondness for Five Guys, and I've had recommendations for Kua 'Aina off Carnaby Street.
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Jun 2, 2016 12:52
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Bodean's Soho for lunch today, am dodging carbs where I can so had the big buffalo wings. Didn't want to be completely sideless so also had onion rings, but could have done without. The wings were really tasty and tender, the onion rings were pretty doughy, if numerous.
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I need a good sushi spot for a date, anyone? (Yes I know it's high carb!) Whilst we're at it, had great ricotta pancakes for brunch at Granger and Co in Notting Hill, good coffee too.
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Jun 25, 2016 18:02
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Horse Clocks posted:I think it's Hawksmoor air street that does fish, and the decor could make a divorce feel special. But prices may be closer to J Sheekys. Kingly Court, there's a few good places there.
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feedmegin posted:We went there and my (Southern, American) wife was not keen. She got the pulled pork and said that for slow cooking for 12 hours it had no flavour There's Red Dog Salon if you'd like an alternative? Loved the brisket, and my mate raved about their pulled pork.
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peanut- posted:By the end of 2018 brisket, pulled pork and chicken wings will be the only dishes left on restaurant menus in London. One day soon we will be unable to obtain meat that hasn't been pulled. Probably served in a jar in a shoe on a chopping board.
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