05.10.2007, 09:01 AM | #1 |
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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:
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05.10.2007, 09:07 AM | #2 | |
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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? |
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05.10.2007, 09:12 AM | #3 |
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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. |
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05.10.2007, 09:19 AM | #4 |
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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
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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. |
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05.10.2007, 09:23 AM | #6 |
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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. |
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05.10.2007, 09:24 AM | #7 |
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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. |
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05.10.2007, 09:35 AM | #8 |
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La Favorita in Leith has excellent log-fired pizzas
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05.10.2007, 10:34 AM | #9 |
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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. |
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05.10.2007, 10:51 AM | #10 |
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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. |
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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.
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hey man are you in OK city? maybe we'll stop by for a visit on our next I-40 jaunt. |
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05.10.2007, 11:29 AM | #13 |
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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.
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05.10.2007, 11:32 AM | #14 |
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Milano's in Pasadena, CA. Great italian resturant.
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05.10.2007, 11:32 AM | #15 |
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porky: paypal me the shipping and i'll send you a directory's worth of restaurants around here.
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05.10.2007, 11:38 AM | #16 | |
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yep yep! just a few miles off I-40 in fact. you're welcome anytime! I won't even make you eat lamb fries (gawd knows *I* won't touch them). |
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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... |
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05.10.2007, 01:25 PM | #18 | |
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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. |
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05.10.2007, 01:34 PM | #19 |
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Lord's Lobster Pound in Wells, Maine. If they're closed (out of season) The Maine Diner up the road is really good too.
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05.10.2007, 02:02 PM | #20 |
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Casa Grecque (greek food), Lapointe (seafood), Mekong (chinese), Agave (mexican)
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