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. 4.95
CHAPEL MARKET - The Naked Sausage, stall during the market hours [6am-5pm] A gourmet half pounder with cheese, double bacon, fried egg, and caramelized onion in a cheese and onion roll/brown roll/etc - 5 quid
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
EUSTON - Mestizo - Every Thursday from 7pm till late - in the basement - serve up great music, fresh tacos for only £1.00, and Corona Extra at only £2.50.
HOLLOWAY ROAD: Amigos, Mexican takeaway/delivery, good and cheap, massive burritos for 5-6 quid and they make their own hot sauce which is amazing.
PRIMROSE HILL - Trojka Tea Rooms, Regents Park Road. This place does awesome Russian food, all day long. Good stodgy meal and a frozen vodka is the perfect hangover cure and will cost less than a tenner.
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.
STOKE NEWINGTON - Super Kebab. £5.00 for large, and a little more for a Shish. Best Kebabs I have ever tasted. Not a restaurant, but has seating areas.
UPPER STREET - La Divina, Mon-Fri 3-8pm deals of side+main+dessert £9.45, very good pizza out there, although watch out for spritzers, they charge them as big wine glasses
SOUTH
BERMONDSEY - Old Justice, Bermondsey Wall. Unlimited Korean bbq for 16.99.
BRIXTON - Khamsa, Algerian, 140 Acre Lane - Tiny, healthy, delicious, authentic family restaurant.
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
PIMLICO - Tachbrook Street Market - Falafel Bros - falafel wrap for £3 and damn amazing it is too. Been there so many times for lunch. Possibly addictive.
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.
WATERLOO - "ev", Isabella St just off the cut. Great £10 Turkish Meze for two. They are the suppliers to Tas restaurants
WATERLOO - Buen Provecho on the Cut, small market stall that serves good Mexican food for about a fiver.
EAST
BETHNAL GREEN - Noodle King. Massive dishes for a fiver.
BETHNAL GREEN RD (top of Brick Lane) - Tas Firin for wicked cheap Turkish. Amazing pide and kebabs (veggie ones too). Nearly always busy. You can eat very well for a tenner.
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.
EAST HAM - Thattukada for Keralan at 241 High Street
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.
MILE END - Greedy Cow- Lunch time special ,6.50 burger ,side and unlimited pop. Great burgers and sides, Only available on weekdays though.
SHOREDITCH - Calvert Ave (by shoreditch church), Home cooked thai that is made from seasonal veg. Irene, who runs it, is a real character. I can recommend the duck, pork belly and fish (cooked in tangy mango chilli sauce). Spring rolls + main + crumble for 2 = £25 - £30 and BYOB or wine.
WHITECHAPEL - Indo opposite Whitechapel Mosque for superb pizzas & a great bar
WHITECHAPEL RD - LaHore Pakistani / Kebab. Boom good and super cheap.
WHITECHAPEL – Needoos, as good as Tayyebs, but cheaper and less queuing
WHITECHAPEL RD – Tayyabs. Brilliant Pakistani food, again, super cheap and super super good. Booking essential.
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
EXMOUTH MARKET EC1 - Morito - Small but perfectly formed tapas/mezze bar next door to sister restaurant Moro. Dishes from £2.50. Veggie dishes are about £4, specials a bit more. Great sherries.
GOODGE ST - Le Pain du Jour, big, well-filled baguettes from £1.80, cheap baked potatoes and soup as well
GOODGE ST - ICCO Pizza, start from £3.50 to £6 great pizzas
HOPKINS ST SOHO - Lunch time food market; Look out for The Bread Man £2.40 sandwiches 10 times better than any supermarket sandwich, he is generally opposite Flat White
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
LEATHER LANE - Sara's Food Store & King of Falafel. £4 for a lunch box of hot Turkish yum or about £3.50 for a falafel. Authentic and tasty.
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
REGENT STREET - Japan Centre - almost anything Japanese, love the dorayaki pancakes and korrokkes
ST JAMES PARK - Ecco Pizza on Strutton Ground
WARDOUR ST - Misato - great japanese fast food, bento box £8.60, huge queues on busy days, massive quantities
WEBBER ST - El Vergel, chilean goods at 132 Webber Street
WHITCROSS STREET MARKET - Hoxton Beach falafel stall. A wrap stuffed to the gills with mega falafel, weird brightly coloured pickles and nice fresh salad. A little pricey at a fiver perhaps, but worth it for sure. Lots of great food stall on that market in fact. Get a coffee from Pitch 42 after. Great brew, nice barista and only c.£2, which is relatively cheap compared to most.
WIGMORE ST - Comptoir Libanais - nice modern Lebanese food, canteen style cafe, sub £10
East title restored now too.
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. 4.95
CHAPEL MARKET - The Naked Sausage, stall during the market hours [6am-5pm] A gourmet half pounder with cheese, double bacon, fried egg, and caramelized onion in a cheese and onion roll/brown roll/etc - 5 quid
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
EUSTON - Mestizo - Every Thursday from 7pm till late - in the basement - serve up great music, fresh tacos for only £1.00, and Corona Extra at only £2.50.
HOLLOWAY ROAD: Amigos, Mexican takeaway/delivery, good and cheap, massive burritos for 5-6 quid and they make their own hot sauce which is amazing.
PRIMROSE HILL - Trojka Tea Rooms, Regents Park Road. This place does awesome Russian food, all day long. Good stodgy meal and a frozen vodka is the perfect hangover cure and will cost less than a tenner.
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.
STOKE NEWINGTON - Super Kebab. £5.00 for large, and a little more for a Shish. Best Kebabs I have ever tasted. Not a restaurant, but has seating areas.
UPPER STREET - La Divina, Mon-Fri 3-8pm deals of side+main+dessert £9.45, very good pizza out there, although watch out for spritzers, they charge them as big wine glasses
SOUTH
BERMONDSEY - Old Justice, Bermondsey Wall. Unlimited Korean bbq for 16.99.
BRIXTON - Khamsa, Algerian, 140 Acre Lane - Tiny, healthy, delicious, authentic family restaurant.
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
PIMLICO - Tachbrook Street Market - Falafel Bros - falafel wrap for £3 and damn amazing it is too. Been there so many times for lunch. Possibly addictive.
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.
WATERLOO - "ev", Isabella St just off the cut. Great £10 Turkish Meze for two. They are the suppliers to Tas restaurants
WATERLOO - Buen Provecho on the Cut, small market stall that serves good Mexican food for about a fiver.
EAST
BETHNAL GREEN - Noodle King. Massive dishes for a fiver.
BETHNAL GREEN RD (top of Brick Lane) - Tas Firin for wicked cheap Turkish. Amazing pide and kebabs (veggie ones too). Nearly always busy. You can eat very well for a tenner.
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.
EAST HAM - Thattukada for Keralan at 241 High Street
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.
MILE END - Greedy Cow- Lunch time special ,6.50 burger ,side and unlimited pop. Great burgers and sides, Only available on weekdays though.
SHOREDITCH - Calvert Ave (by shoreditch church), Home cooked thai that is made from seasonal veg. Irene, who runs it, is a real character. I can recommend the duck, pork belly and fish (cooked in tangy mango chilli sauce). Spring rolls + main + crumble for 2 = £25 - £30 and BYOB or wine.
WHITECHAPEL - Indo opposite Whitechapel Mosque for superb pizzas & a great bar
WHITECHAPEL RD - LaHore Pakistani / Kebab. Boom good and super cheap.
WHITECHAPEL – Needoos, as good as Tayyebs, but cheaper and less queuing
WHITECHAPEL RD – Tayyabs. Brilliant Pakistani food, again, super cheap and super super good. Booking essential.
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
EXMOUTH MARKET EC1 - Morito - Small but perfectly formed tapas/mezze bar next door to sister restaurant Moro. Dishes from £2.50. Veggie dishes are about £4, specials a bit more. Great sherries.
GOODGE ST - Le Pain du Jour, big, well-filled baguettes from £1.80, cheap baked potatoes and soup as well
GOODGE ST - ICCO Pizza, start from £3.50 to £6 great pizzas
HOPKINS ST SOHO - Lunch time food market; Look out for The Bread Man £2.40 sandwiches 10 times better than any supermarket sandwich, he is generally opposite Flat White
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
LEATHER LANE - Sara's Food Store & King of Falafel. £4 for a lunch box of hot Turkish yum or about £3.50 for a falafel. Authentic and tasty.
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
REGENT STREET - Japan Centre - almost anything Japanese, love the dorayaki pancakes and korrokkes
ST JAMES PARK - Ecco Pizza on Strutton Ground
WARDOUR ST - Misato - great japanese fast food, bento box £8.60, huge queues on busy days, massive quantities
WEBBER ST - El Vergel, chilean goods at 132 Webber Street
WHITCROSS STREET MARKET - Hoxton Beach falafel stall. A wrap stuffed to the gills with mega falafel, weird brightly coloured pickles and nice fresh salad. A little pricey at a fiver perhaps, but worth it for sure. Lots of great food stall on that market in fact. Get a coffee from Pitch 42 after. Great brew, nice barista and only c.£2, which is relatively cheap compared to most.
WIGMORE ST - Comptoir Libanais - nice modern Lebanese food, canteen style cafe, sub £10