Category: Eating
Ultimate vegan rumble showcases knockout street food: Kerb, London N1
September 2, 2017
Eight of London’s best vegan dishes faced off in a street food showdown – and a Venezuelan chip butty knocked out opponents to claim top prize. The Living on the Veg munch-off, organised by street food impresario Kerb, took place under West Handyside Canopy in King’s Cross. For under 30 quid, ticket holders […]
Review: Dungeness Snack Shack, Kent
July 3, 2016
Cunningly secreted fish lovers’ friend in bleak but beautiful Dungeness Dungeness, on the very tip of the Romney Marsh in Kent, is a desolate expanse of shingle, loomed over by monstrous power stations, dotted with bleached driftwood, fishing nets and lonely cottages. You can’t get a mobile signal, UKIP flags taunt the liberal London holidaymaker […]
Review: Urban Orient, Crystal Palace SE19
June 21, 2016
All points south-east at this cheap and cheerful Vietnamese in the golden triangle of Crystal Palace High above the sprawling city, with soaring views, an enormous park – complete with bonkers Victorian dinosaur court – and a patchwork of thriving, independent coffee shops, restaurants and pubs, Crystal Palace is an authentic London village. Thanks to […]
Review: Pizzeria Pellone, Croydon
May 31, 2016
Croydon’s overrun with all-day fast food joints – and most of it seems to end up in my hedge in various stages of digestion. But Pizzeria Pellone, on Croydon High Street, cooks up lip-smacking, belt-busting pizzas that are simply too good to waste. It’s not that there’s anything wrong with fast food, or eating out of paper in a bus […]
Review: The Quality Chop House, Farringdon EC1
March 7, 2016
Victorian working men’s dining room since 1869, now shovelling out imperiously brilliant meals to modern-day navvies who’ve had a hard day at the Powerpoint coalface Now a restaurant, a wine bar, a butchers and a food shop, the Quality Chop House opened in 1869, the same year that John Sainsbury and his wife opened a greengrocer in Drury […]
Review: Theo’s Pizzeria, Camberwell SE5
January 24, 2016
A slice of Naples in Camberwell, dishing up crowd-pleaser pizza at affordable prices – think bufala without the bill. Theo’s is a functional-looking but classy Neapolitan-style pizzeria with a light, bright interior, sandwiched between the Hill bakery and the Hermit’s Cave pub on Grove Lane.
Review: Artusi, Peckham SE15
January 12, 2016
No checkered table cloths and enormous priapic peppermills in this local Italian favourite on Bellenden Road. Artusi is a simple, slender neighbourhood restaurant where the prices are as stripped back as the decor. The hipster hordes of Peckham can count themselves very lucky.
Review: Cockneys of Croydon
December 8, 2015
Pie and mash is my hangover food of choice. It’s cheap, with no sharp edges, and it’s usually dished up in a compact, bright white tiled space, so it’s just like staying safely put in your own bathroom. But with food. How comforting is that? Okay, so you often have to share a table with […]
Review: Sunday Lunch at The Camberwell Arms, Camberwell SE5
November 9, 2015
It’s all swell in Camberwell, not least around our belt buckles, after a gut-busting, button-popping blow-out of a Sunday lunch at gastropub The Camberwell Arms. If Sunday lunches are designed to do anything it’s to put you flat on your back until well after the Antiques Roadshow. Fiona Bruce was already looking like a long […]
Review: The London Particular, New Cross SE14
November 2, 2015
Herman Melville, visiting London in 1850, described his walk through a choking and poisonous “London particular”. It was an “old-fashioned pea soup London fog – of a gamboge colour.” Gamboge is a mustard-coloured pigment used to dye Buddhist monks’ robes and varnish violins. And it’s roughly the same colour as the murky split pea soup […]