Food

I'm wondering if theres a way to order loads of nuts for a good price. I'm not talking 5% reduction at a wholesaler, but for example ordering a year worth of macadamia nuts straight from Austrlia or wherever for the price of peanuts.. I love nuts but those little bastards assassinate my wallet!

fatty nuts like macadamia don't store super good because they go rancid. You have to super seal them or freeze them, and even then sometimes.

Source: grandparents from Hawaii, grandfather would trade his own mangoes for his bros macadamia nuts. The mangoes would spoil first, natch, but the nuts would only last some months.

Thats a shame.. Thanks.

WRT testy. I am surprised anyone needed to look it up, you can find the definition all around you. For example: http://www.lfgss.com/thread29-1709.html#post4141707

I thought we were looking up what a raclette pan is.

Surely this: http://www.lfgss.com/thread124401.html#post4152200

everybody knows what a raclette pan is, it is one of these: http://blog.e-photographer.net/?p=209#comment-13

I'm wondering if theres a way to order loads of nuts for a good price. I'm not talking 5% reduction at a wholesaler, but for example ordering a year worth of macadamia nuts straight from Austrlia or wherever for the price of peanuts.. I love nuts but those little bastards assassinate my wallet!

This might be up there with my post of 2014

there is shop on green lanes that only sells nuts. I havent been in yet but I have hopes that they will be cheap

spent a pleasant evening at Blackfoot on Exmouth Market, http://blackfootrestaurant.co.uk/
all pork all the time.
Had the pork and clam stew, which was nice, but Companion had the biggest/thickest slice of pork I've seen in a while on a bed of lentils, with a salsa verde and some lovely crackling.
Created immediate food envy and agonising that I should have ordered that as well.

also the chilli crackling is amazing, and not wallet rippingly expensive.

Would recommend...

i feel you shoulda gotten some sort of name based discount. Don't they know who you are?

I was intrigued by the name, which is one of the reasons I went.
If you do go, try and take some people with you and claim one of the booths in the front. Table area at the back is okay if abit atmoslite..

it's on the list. Is it near Moro?

Gymkhana last night.

Amazing. Still full now.

Duck egg bhurji with lobster meat and paratha. Ehrmagerd! Flaky, light paratha, even lighter bhurji with seriously rich chunks of lobster meat, and hits of chili and herbs.

Butter, pepper, garlic, crab curry! So rich, and so er, crabby! It arrived first out of the main courses and even as the others arrived, all I could smell was garlic and crab, that was definitely the dish of the evening for me, would love to attempt that at home.

Paneer tikka was off the chain, I've always maintained that nobody's paneer beats Tayyab's paneer, but these guys, they smashed it. Cashew crust on the paneer took it to the next level.

Big letdown was the muntjac biryani though, that's what I went specifically to have and it was pretty mundane. They made it Hyderabad style, with pastry crust over the dish and made a song and dance about it but it was mediocre at best, I've had better biryanis at weddings in community centres in Walthamstow and Croydon. Should have gone for something off the Game and Chops menu instead, much more up my street. I guess I'll have to go back!!

Tayyabs tomorrow so will compare posh to ghetto homestyle.

fuuuuccckkkkk need to git to Gymkhana

Sounds delish. I'm quite wary of spending lots of money on Indian/Pakistani food though.
Over here the norm is that you don't spend more than £5 on a meal, including a mango lassi.

spent a pleasant evening at Blackfoot on Exmouth Market, http://blackfootrestaurant.co.uk/
all pork all the time.
Had the pork and clam stew, which was nice, but Companion had the biggest/thickest slice of pork I've seen in a while on a bed of lentils, with a salsa verde and some lovely crackling.
Created immediate food envy and agonising that I should have ordered that as well.

also the chilli crackling is amazing, and not wallet rippingly expensive.

Would recommend...

This place looks fantastic!

Going to Blackfoot next week, whipped lardo on toast, you can't lose...

Sounds delish. I'm quite wary of spending lots of money on Indian/Pakistani food though.
Over here the norm is that you don't spend more than £5 on a meal, including a mango lassi.

Usually, I'm the same, especially since I'm Pakistani and I can make most dishes to a pretty high level. Also, Tayyab's provides such high quality scran at such low price that you seldom need to visit anywhere else, but the dishes on this menu really appealed as higher quality versions of the usual fare and the Game options seemed novel enough to warrant the extra expenditure, and aside from that one dish, it was worth it to me.

NH made some valid points

On a diff note; I used to think Indian and Pakistani is the same food. But Tayyab's tought me it isnt and I cant handle Pakistani spice

@greenhell, Blackfoot is just down from moro, on the same side of the street as well

cheers ace.

I presume quite a lot of folks on here work around Soho - am getting lunch from Berwick Street / Rupert Street market tomorrow or Friday...

Recommendations for best stalls please!

Grilled some feta the other day, would grill again

Currently enjoying some lasagne from this mob..

http://www.goodforlunch.com/reviews/16531/kastner-and-ovens-spitalfields