NORTH
ANGEL - Le Mercury. Cheap and cheerful French bistro.
CAMDEN - That whole in the wall on your right hand side a few doors down as you come out of Camden tube - great steak baguettes
CHAPEL MARKET - Bhel Poori House. Super-cheap all you can eat veggie buffet.
EUSTON - RASA Express, Euston Road opposite Euston Tower - two curries, rice, bread, pickle and dessert for £4 (vegetarian) or £4.50 (meat) - really good quality food as well
STOKE NEWINGTON - Abu Ruchi, cheap and ace Keralan eats
STOKE NEWINGTON - RASA (number 55, not 56) on Church Street, fantastic food for under £15 per head.
SOUTH
BERMONDSEY - Old Justice, Bermondsey Wall. Unlimited Korean bbq for 16.99.
BRIXTON VILLAGE - Franco Manca - pizzas only - authentic italian style toppings on sourdough bases. incredible. i've not had a better pizza in london. about £8 per disc of joy.
CAMBERWELL - Zeret Kitchen for Eritrean/Ethiopian food, unfancy looking, incredible food (good for a big party of people too), £10er a head including a beer will be plenty
CAMBERWELL - Silk Road for Chinese food, awesome food, £10er a head including a beer will be plenty, booking advisable
GREENWICH - Noodle Time. Fat eats for a few quid.
LAVENDER HILL, BATTERSEA (& SHOREDITCH) - Mien Tay, Vietnamese. One of the best in London.
ROTHERHITHE - Surrey Docks Farm Café, run by Frizzante (who are also at Hackney and Mudchute City Farm). Lovely breakfasts and Sunday lunches. Farm produced meat is on sale whenever available, as are plants, honey etc.
VAUXHALL - Hot Stuff. Awesome curry, tiny prices. BYO, no corkage. Order a family naan, it is the size of the table.
WATERLOO - Master's Superfish, Waterloo Road. Best fried fish in town.
EAST
BETHNAL GREEN - Noodle King. Massive dishes for a fiver.
BRICK LANE - Beigel shop,24 hour and a huge salt beef bagel, £2.50
BRICK LANE - Sunday Upmarket has some decent food and a good atmosphere. The Japanese pancakes with cheese and vegetables, strange mayonnaise and a rice ball thing for £4.50 is top, as is the stand with cold mezze
BRICK LANE - Sweet & Spicy for Pakistani near Heneage st
BROADWAY MARKET - Joy, Indian. This place is under-rated and dammed good!
BROADWAY MARKET - Bella Vita. 2 pizzas and a bottle of S.Pellegrino for about £16
CLERKENWELL - Sedap for awesome Malaysian (and near LMNH) at 102 Old St
DALSTON - Mangal Ocackbasi on Arcola Street. Amazing Turkish charcoal grill, BYOB. Feast like kings for two is c.£30 (not including whatever booze you take). This place is all about the meat though - dunno how great the choice is for veggies.
DALSTON - 19 Numara Bos Cirrik. Best Turkish in town, no argument.
MARE ST - Tre Viet, Vietnamese. Full sit down meal for less than a tenner a head. Unless you have wine.
MIDDLESEX ST (88-90) - My Old Place, Szechuan. Always busy. Huge plates of delicious authentic food and not just for meat eaters. Cash only.
EAST HAM - Thattukada for Keralan at 241 High Street
WHITECHAPEL RD – Tayyabs. Brilliant Pakistani food, again, super cheap and super super good. Booking essential.
WHITECHAPEL – Needoos, as good as Tayyebs, but cheaper and less queuing
WHITECHAPEL RD - LaHore Pakistani / Kebab. Boom good and super cheap.
WHITECHAPEL - Indo opposite Whitechapel Mosque for superb pizzas & a great bar
WEST
BAYSWATER – Taza. Amazing falafel for about £3, just don't eat it standing up or you'll be wearing tahini
EDGWARE RD – Mandalay for Burmese food, unfancy looking, incredible food, £10er a head including a beer will be plenty, booking essential
EDGWARE RD - Kandoo for Persian is very good, a few doors down the road from Mandalay
EDGWARE RD - Patogh for Persian just off Edgware rd (by cafe Nero).
LADBROKE GROVE - Fez Mangal - Turkish BBQ with BYO IIRC. Good selection of meat and vegetarian dishes that won't break the bank - £20 will feed 2, easily.
NOTTING HILL GATE, The Churchill Arms on Kensington Church St. Pub on the front, but authentic cheap Thai restaurant round the back.
PORTOBELLO RD - Makan will give you change from a tenner. Best nasi campur I've come across.
SHEPHERDS BUSH - Next to Barclays on Uxb Rd. Great kebabs but do a mix of Afghan/Lebanese/Pakistani so the curries make a perfect sit down meal, about £6 per person
SOUTH KENSINGTON - Little Japan, tiny cafe, huge bentoes for about £5, cheap for a massive lunch
CENTRAL
DEAN ST - French House does bavette & frites for about £10 mon - fri lunch
GOODGE ST - Le Pain du Jour, big, well-filled baguettes from £1.80, cheap baked potatoes and soup as well
JUDD ST - The King of Falafel, Judd St/Tavistock place - I like falafel, what can I say. This place is fantastic though, their 'moroccan bread' is a bit more expensive but stuffed with tomato or spinach and wrapped round really good falafel and salad. Best halloumi I've tasted as well
OLD COMPTON ST - Maoz, Delicious falafel in pitta for about £3.70, but with a sort of unlimited all-you-can-eat salad bar which they let you take the piss with. You just eat the filling from your pitta, fill it up again, take it back, repeat until bursting.
PICCADILLY - Yoshino, must be the cheapest sushi in London. Shrink-wrapped in plastic but really good. £2.50 for a vegetarian lunch box
WEBBER ST - El Vergel, chilean goods at 132 Webber Street
REGENT STREET - Japan Centre - almost anything Japanese, love the dorayaki pancakes and korrokkes
NORTH
ANGEL - Le Mercury. Cheap and cheerful French bistro.
CAMDEN - That whole in the wall on your right hand side a few doors down as you come out of Camden tube - great steak baguettes
CHAPEL MARKET - Bhel Poori House. Super-cheap all you can eat veggie buffet.
EUSTON - RASA Express, Euston Road opposite Euston Tower - two curries, rice, bread, pickle and dessert for £4 (vegetarian) or £4.50 (meat) - really good quality food as well
STOKE NEWINGTON - Abu Ruchi, cheap and ace Keralan eats
STOKE NEWINGTON - RASA (number 55, not 56) on Church Street, fantastic food for under £15 per head.
SOUTH
BERMONDSEY - Old Justice, Bermondsey Wall. Unlimited Korean bbq for 16.99.
BRIXTON VILLAGE - Franco Manca - pizzas only - authentic italian style toppings on sourdough bases. incredible. i've not had a better pizza in london. about £8 per disc of joy.
CAMBERWELL - Zeret Kitchen for Eritrean/Ethiopian food, unfancy looking, incredible food (good for a big party of people too), £10er a head including a beer will be plenty
CAMBERWELL - Silk Road for Chinese food, awesome food, £10er a head including a beer will be plenty, booking advisable
GREENWICH - Noodle Time. Fat eats for a few quid.
LAVENDER HILL, BATTERSEA (& SHOREDITCH) - Mien Tay, Vietnamese. One of the best in London.
ROTHERHITHE - Surrey Docks Farm Café, run by Frizzante (who are also at Hackney and Mudchute City Farm). Lovely breakfasts and Sunday lunches. Farm produced meat is on sale whenever available, as are plants, honey etc.
VAUXHALL - Hot Stuff. Awesome curry, tiny prices. BYO, no corkage. Order a family naan, it is the size of the table.
WATERLOO - Master's Superfish, Waterloo Road. Best fried fish in town.
EAST
BETHNAL GREEN - Noodle King. Massive dishes for a fiver.
BRICK LANE - Beigel shop,24 hour and a huge salt beef bagel, £2.50
BRICK LANE - Sunday Upmarket has some decent food and a good atmosphere. The Japanese pancakes with cheese and vegetables, strange mayonnaise and a rice ball thing for £4.50 is top, as is the stand with cold mezze
BRICK LANE - Sweet & Spicy for Pakistani near Heneage st
BROADWAY MARKET - Joy, Indian. This place is under-rated and dammed good!
BROADWAY MARKET - Bella Vita. 2 pizzas and a bottle of S.Pellegrino for about £16
CLERKENWELL - Sedap for awesome Malaysian (and near LMNH) at 102 Old St
DALSTON - Mangal Ocackbasi on Arcola Street. Amazing Turkish charcoal grill, BYOB. Feast like kings for two is c.£30 (not including whatever booze you take). This place is all about the meat though - dunno how great the choice is for veggies.
DALSTON - 19 Numara Bos Cirrik. Best Turkish in town, no argument.
MARE ST - Tre Viet, Vietnamese. Full sit down meal for less than a tenner a head. Unless you have wine.
MIDDLESEX ST (88-90) - My Old Place, Szechuan. Always busy. Huge plates of delicious authentic food and not just for meat eaters. Cash only.
EAST HAM - Thattukada for Keralan at 241 High Street
WHITECHAPEL RD – Tayyabs. Brilliant Pakistani food, again, super cheap and super super good. Booking essential.
WHITECHAPEL – Needoos, as good as Tayyebs, but cheaper and less queuing
WHITECHAPEL RD - LaHore Pakistani / Kebab. Boom good and super cheap.
WHITECHAPEL - Indo opposite Whitechapel Mosque for superb pizzas & a great bar
WEST
BAYSWATER – Taza. Amazing falafel for about £3, just don't eat it standing up or you'll be wearing tahini
EDGWARE RD – Mandalay for Burmese food, unfancy looking, incredible food, £10er a head including a beer will be plenty, booking essential
EDGWARE RD - Kandoo for Persian is very good, a few doors down the road from Mandalay
EDGWARE RD - Patogh for Persian just off Edgware rd (by cafe Nero).
LADBROKE GROVE - Fez Mangal - Turkish BBQ with BYO IIRC. Good selection of meat and vegetarian dishes that won't break the bank - £20 will feed 2, easily.
NOTTING HILL GATE, The Churchill Arms on Kensington Church St. Pub on the front, but authentic cheap Thai restaurant round the back.
PORTOBELLO RD - Makan will give you change from a tenner. Best nasi campur I've come across.
SHEPHERDS BUSH - Next to Barclays on Uxb Rd. Great kebabs but do a mix of Afghan/Lebanese/Pakistani so the curries make a perfect sit down meal, about £6 per person
SOUTH KENSINGTON - Little Japan, tiny cafe, huge bentoes for about £5, cheap for a massive lunch
CENTRAL
DEAN ST - French House does bavette & frites for about £10 mon - fri lunch
GOODGE ST - Le Pain du Jour, big, well-filled baguettes from £1.80, cheap baked potatoes and soup as well
JUDD ST - The King of Falafel, Judd St/Tavistock place - I like falafel, what can I say. This place is fantastic though, their 'moroccan bread' is a bit more expensive but stuffed with tomato or spinach and wrapped round really good falafel and salad. Best halloumi I've tasted as well
OLD COMPTON ST - Maoz, Delicious falafel in pitta for about £3.70, but with a sort of unlimited all-you-can-eat salad bar which they let you take the piss with. You just eat the filling from your pitta, fill it up again, take it back, repeat until bursting.
PICCADILLY - Yoshino, must be the cheapest sushi in London. Shrink-wrapped in plastic but really good. £2.50 for a vegetarian lunch box
WEBBER ST - El Vergel, chilean goods at 132 Webber Street
REGENT STREET - Japan Centre - almost anything Japanese, love the dorayaki pancakes and korrokkes