Entries from Londonist tagged with 'deepfried'
July 17, 2007
Londonist asks that most pressing of daily concerns: where to go on your lunch break. Just Falafs 27b Covent Garden Piazza WC2E 8RD Map 155 Wardour St W1F 8WG Map Expect to Pay: £5 - 6 Rating: 8 out of 10 Londonist recently enjoyed a large FLT (falafel, leaf, tomato with humus in a pita) at Just Falafs’ Covent Garden location. Notwithstanding the eatery’s pun-intended name, our lunch was seriously good: filling, yummy, healthy.......
Continue Reading "What’s for Lunch? Just Falafs"July 5, 2007
Londonist asks that most pressing of daily concerns: where to go on your lunch break. Sfizio Café 35-37 Theobalds Road WC1X 8SP Map Average Lunch Price: £2.70 for one panzarotto Rating: 8 out of 10 Londonist has a confession to make. Several weeks back, when we visited City Snacks for our first What’s for Lunch? review, we were actually planning to grab a quick bite a few doors down at Sfizio Café. Much to......
Continue Reading "What’s for Lunch? Sfizio Café"December 18, 2006
Day Seven – Norwich I kept waking up last night and having to adjust my sleeping position to keep from flying out of my bunk - the bus seemed to be throwing itself about all over the place! Somehow we all survive and wake to a cold, bright day. The bus is parked outside the venue and is also, rather conveniently, a matter of metres from a breakfasty café. Their eggs are the best so......
Continue Reading "Notes From The Road"November 25, 2005
The opening of a new North African bar/restaurant in Marylebone is not something to write home about but given the competition you should expect it to be worthwhile in its incipient weeks and months. Occo opened earlier this year and Londonist visited it shortly afterwards on a particularly sweltering late summer evening. The surroundings are quietly sublime; clean lines dovetailing into mucky browns; and you are subtly reminded of the effort made to this......
Continue Reading "Spit Or Swallow: Occo, Marylebone"September 1, 2005
Look at the SIZE of that thing. This will amuse our overseas readers, but here in the UK along with silly games like cricket, celebrities like Benny Hill and food like deep fried mars bars we like our insects to be small, non poisonous and certainly not ferocious. Bugs are supposed to be annoying, but not really threatening. The idea of a ferocious one puts us right off our early morning crumpet. Bravo to......
Continue Reading "I for one welcome our new insect overlords"