I’m off to Hawksmoor for a late lunch tmrw, which should be nice. Followed by Greg Davies at Royal Albert Hall.
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Even better would be if someone sent you to North China in a Sea Container.
Bit harsh on Rich Dave.
Smallman1 A combination of “A bastion of fine French food” and being at The Ritz sounds fucking awful.
Was there recently, it was absolutely sensational.
Decent crackers too
A strange but true fact about The Ritz.
Margaret Thatcher died there!
Going to be heading here next week Dave -
https://www.threeuncles.co.uk/brixton
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Went to hawksmoor this afternoon and absolutely solid. Always enjoyed their steaks there but today did their 15th birthday 2 course menu for £28. Can’t think of a better deal in London if you want a good value steak with some decent wine. We only spent £70 a head.
Smallman1 Going to be heading here next week Dave -
https://www.threeuncles.co.uk/brixton
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The dishes are great, and it looks like the menu from a small cafe that you would find in a food court basement of a shopping mall all over China (which is not a bad thing - like Singapore’s hawker places, these are sometimes the best places to eat).
What’s interesting is this has become hipsterised, and unfortunately when Asian food goes hipster, the prices of simple dishes usually become fairly outrageous (as here) and the authenticity is lost (hope this isn’t the case) in favour of Instagrammable presentation and a bland Sunday supplement set of flavours.
I would eat here if in London, gladly - at least to try it.
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bosstrabs Dave, what do your eyes make of this place?
Not much to it, but to me anyway I thought they were surprisingly great noodles in Munich. I had the Mala Noodle Soup (Scharf/Spicy):
hugopal Dave, what do your eyes make of this place?
Looks decent, same principle, you find these beef noodle restaurants in the basement of any shopping centre in Beijing, although this is Lanzhou/Gansu style rather than Cantonese.
Probably have that very dish once or twice a month. The restaurants usually have bowls of chilli oil and chopped scallion so you can add extra, and obviously loads of that gets dumped in.
25 rumbas for a bowl of that here, which is about 3 Euro. Excellent if done properly and they have someone hand-pulling the noodles (MAD CYRIL’S EUPHEMISM KLAXON) in house.