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sarramkrop 05.10.2007 09:01 AM

Restaurants
 
Recommend some good restaurants from where you live. This is Cafe Bangla in London's Brick Lane. Good indian food and the decor can best be described as Bollywood Salvador Dali, complete with a surreal painting of princess Diana that you might be able to spot on one of these pictures:


 



 

floatingslowly 05.10.2007 09:07 AM

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Originally Posted by sarramkrop
Recommend some good restaurants from where you live.



OMG yr coming to oklahoma?

I guess this means that I'm going to have to clean the bathroom.

normally I'd offer you a place to stay, but I already have another friend coming into town.

down worry about the restaurant though, I'll drive.

do you like lamb fries?

pokkeherrie 05.10.2007 09:12 AM

If you're coming here, these guys make a decent falafel

 


When you're sitting on the ground it feels just like being in a restaurant. I'll bring an umbrella in case it rains.

terminal pharmacy 05.10.2007 09:19 AM

we have a great strip here in adelaide (smallish city) called gouger street some some of the best asian food in the country that i have eaten. ying chow, east taste both chinese, mapo korean, genki japanese

sarramkrop 05.10.2007 09:22 AM

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Originally Posted by pokkeherrie
If you're coming here, these guys make a decent falafel



 


When you're sitting on the ground it feels just like being in a restaurant. I'll bring an umbrella in case it rains.


It's difficult to find a place in London where you can buy decent falafels. I only know this takeaway place in Soho and De Cecco in Earl's Court.

Iain 05.10.2007 09:23 AM

Cardiff:

Hahza - Ace Kurdish restaurant and quite cheap.

Topoli - Persian restaurant. Super nice owner who treats you well (free tequila!)

Jikoni - Cheap as hell vegetarian Indian restaurant.

sonicl 05.10.2007 09:24 AM

I celebrated my birthday at The Dining Room in Hersham.

Another favourite is Brula in Twickenham.

And in central London I like Melati, in Windmill Street.

Oh, and I like eating at any branch of Blubeckers.

whorefrost 05.10.2007 09:35 AM

La Favorita in Leith has excellent log-fired pizzas

demonrail666 05.10.2007 10:34 AM

Nico's in Bethnal Green, London.

Not quite a restaurant but so much more than a cafe. Greek-run traditional greasy spoon with truly enormous portions (the main courses usually come on two large dinner plates!) Not somewhere to take that special someone, but if you want ot fill up with simple but excellent home-cooking whilst listening to behind the counter arguments about this season's merits/failings of the Arsenal, then this really is the place. Food-wise I may as well live there.

The mixed grill, at about £7, is quite simply epic in scale and usually served with a cautionary 'don't worry, take your time' from the old lady who heaves it to your table.

Thinking about it, I might just have a wander down there in a bit.

atari 2600 05.10.2007 10:51 AM

I think he made the topic just so he could wittily remark on the decor of that restaurant haha...bollywood salvador dali.
I have a friend in commercial real estate that also owns a bar & grill downtown. He wants another friend to manage a new full-size place (more family-style full restaurant & bar) that he's opening next year, and I was thinking it might be fun to work there too sometimes (done it before), but I don't know.

we have a few good places in c-ville, but athens has better restaurants.

MellySingsDoom 05.10.2007 10:56 AM

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Originally Posted by demonrail666
Nico's in Bethnal Green, London.

Not quite a restaurant but so much more than a cafe. Greek-run traditional greasy spoon with truly enormous portions (the main courses usually come on two large dinner plates!) Not somewhere to take that special someone, but if you want ot fill up with simple but excellent home-cooking whilst listening to behind the counter arguments about this season's merits/failings of the Arsenal, then this really is the place. Food-wise I may as well live there.

The mixed grill, at about £7, is quite simply epic in scale and usually served with a cautionary 'don't worry, take your time' from the old lady who heaves it to your table.

Thinking about it, I might just have a wander down there in a bit.


Bethnall Green Road is home to quite a few eateries. The two I wouldn't mind going to are E.Pelluci's and the Turkish pida place near Brick Lane (can't remember it's name offhand).

The best restaurant I've bene to in London is Nobu. Ridiculously expensive, but their sushi is the best I've ever tasted. They also serve sake in iced bamboo containers.

!@#$%! 05.10.2007 11:22 AM

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Originally Posted by floatingslowly
OMG yr coming to oklahoma?

I guess this means that I'm going to have to clean the bathroom.

normally I'd offer you a place to stay, but I already have another friend coming into town.

down worry about the restaurant though, I'll drive.

do you like lamb fries?


hey man are you in OK city? maybe we'll stop by for a visit on our next I-40 jaunt.

jon boy 05.10.2007 11:29 AM

there is a good place on helmholmplatz in berlin that does very good vegie stuff. they have these hooks hanging from the ceiling and they bring out lots of stuff and hang it on one over your table and you just take what you like. its ounds strange but makes perfect sense if your there.

LifeDistortion 05.10.2007 11:32 AM

Milano's in Pasadena, CA. Great italian resturant.

Everyneurotic 05.10.2007 11:32 AM

porky: paypal me the shipping and i'll send you a directory's worth of restaurants around here.

floatingslowly 05.10.2007 11:38 AM

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Originally Posted by !@#$%!
hey man are you in OK city? maybe we'll stop by for a visit on our next I-40 jaunt.


yep yep!

just a few miles off I-40 in fact. :D

you're welcome anytime!

I won't even make you eat lamb fries (gawd knows *I* won't touch them).

!@#$%! 05.10.2007 12:22 PM

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Originally Posted by floatingslowly
yep yep!

just a few miles off I-40 in fact. :D

you're welcome anytime!

I won't even make you eat lamb fries (gawd knows *I* won't touch them).


ha ha-- lamb testicles? sure i'll eat them-- grilled bull testicles are incredibly tasty. i've eaten turkey testicles too! so count me in for lunch...

demonrail666 05.10.2007 01:25 PM

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Originally Posted by MellySingsDoom
Bethnall Green Road is home to quite a few eateries. The two I wouldn't mind going to are E.Pelluci's and the Turkish pida place near Brick Lane (can't remember it's name offhand).

The best restaurant I've bene to in London is Nobu. Ridiculously expensive, but their sushi is the best I've ever tasted. They also serve sake in iced bamboo containers.


E. Pelluci's is OK but so small that you rarely get a table. The food is slightly better than Nico's but needless to say the portions can't compare.

I know the Turkish place you mean (Tas Firin) and while it's OK, the food is quite expensive and isn't THAT much better than what you'd get at a decent kebab shop.

tesla69 05.10.2007 01:34 PM

Lord's Lobster Pound in Wells, Maine. If they're closed (out of season) The Maine Diner up the road is really good too.

LittlePuppetBoy 05.10.2007 02:02 PM

Casa Grecque (greek food), Lapointe (seafood), Mekong (chinese), Agave (mexican)


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