Eating Out in London

[Im a BusyBee]

We are going to london for 4 days - where would you go for lunch and/or dinner in london?

[Bewlay Bros]

http://www.manze.co.uk/

If you are a tourist to our great capital you MUST try pie, mash and liquor.

the above is a link to the best place in London (the Tower Bridge Road venue).

It is fairly close to Tower Bridge which is well worth a walk over and close to the Momunment, St Pauls Cathederal, London Dungeons and HMS Belfast. Well with 1/2hour anyway.

Pie and mash is the way forward and for less than a fiver you will have a better meal than in any of these top london Restaurants at at least �60 per head.

[excelsior]

i'd recommend the black angus in leicester square. it is the flagship of the angus steakhouse chain.

the best meal i ever had was there

[Buenchico]

(2-part post):

Hello again, BusyBee!

Bistro 1 offers a really good menu at incredibly low prices. There are 3 branches; I always use the one on Southampton Street (Covent Garden) but the other two are probably just as good.

A 3 course lunch costs �7.90. (For dinner, the price rises to �10.90). Despite the low prices for food, they don't try to make up for it by charging excessively for drinks. (A 175ml glass of the house red is �2.75, which isn't much dearer than most pubs)

The menu can be found here. (It doesn't show prices but, basically, they're as above or �1 less if you only require 2 courses. Just a few items on the menu, e.g. the Chef's Specials, might require a very small supplement to the basic price):
http://www.bistro1.co.uk/menu/Bistro1%20Sample %20Menu.pdf

The home page of their website is here
http://www.bistro1.co.uk/

[Buenchico]

Wetherspoon's pubs offer good value for food and drink. Unfortunately, some of their central London branches are of a very poor standard. However, I suspect that you'll be travelling by train into Liverpool Street station, which is home to an excellent Wetherspoon's pub, the Hamilton Hall, on the Upper Concourse of the station. It used to be the ballroom of the Great Eastern Hotel and it still retains much of its character. Go upstairs and you'll find a pleasant restaurant area, with good food at low prices (served by pleasant and knowledgeable staff).

The Edge, on Soho Square (just off Oxford Street) is one of London's liveliest gay venues (across 4 floors) at night but they've got a very pleasant little bar on the ground floor which is popular at lunchtime with tourists and locals alike. The food menu is fairly limited but the quality is very good:
http://www.edgesoho.co.uk/food.html

Chris

[Im a BusyBee]

thank you so much for your quick answers, i shall definately try some of them. Buenchico i wonder if you could help me further....each time we have a break in london we try to have a 'special' meal some where (we have done tea at the ritz, lunch at the dorchester, the ivy)i wonder if you could recomend something similar to these please?

[Bewlay Bros]

are you saying "pie and mash" is not special?????

If you want posh, you can't go wrong with The Dorchester Hotel on Park Lane.

They had one of the best Beef Wellington I have ever had. Ever!!!!

[Im a BusyBee]

after looking on the website i wonder what does pie mash and 'liquor' actually mean? its the liquor bit im confused about!

[Im a BusyBee]

no, we will try the pie and mash as i know my husband especially will like that. And yes i agree the dorchester is wonderful but want to try somewhere different - bare in mind we are there for a few days and will need 4 meals altogether!

[jno]

best meal I ever had in London was at Gordon Ramsey's at Claridge's. Just as well someone else was paying, though. We took about four hours over it and it was wonderful.

http://www.gordonramsay.com/claridges/

[Buenchico]

Thanks for the reply, BusyBee.

The ultimate restaurant experience, in London, must be Michel Roux's Michelin-double-starred Le Gavroche:
http://www.le-gavroche.co.uk/main.html

You probably get less 'cachet', but an extra Michelin star, if you eat at Restaurant Gordon Ramsay:
http://www.gordonramsay.com/royalhospitalroad/

If you want some other names to impress your friends with, try these:

Marco-Pierre White's Criterion:
http://www.whitestarline.org.uk/Criterion_Rest aurant_Brasserie_London.htm

Jamie Oliver's Fifteen:
http://www.fifteen.net/restaurants/fifteenlond on/Pages/default.aspx

Antony Worrall-Thompson's Notting Grill:
http://www.awtrestaurants.com/nottinggrill/

For traditional British fare, Brian Turner Mayfair might be your best bet:
http://www.brianturneronline.co.uk//Mayfair.as px

Chris

[auntiebertie]

I thought Hush had a great atmosphere...
http://www.strictlyhush.com/hush/index.html
and the Brasserie menu is not too expensive.

Otherwise for classic British there is no place like Rules
http://rules.co.uk/home

and I have always been a fan of Maggie Jones
http://www.london-eating.co.uk/2531.htm

[Im a BusyBee]

i have read about rules - think that may be a good one. Maggie Jones looks interesting but i cant seem to find a menu or example of one on internet? do you remember what is on the menu or can you post me link. Thanks so much