Food

Aroogah, just one for you to salivate over - a crawfish boil from last weekend...

How was the buttermilk fried chicken Crispin?

Never happened, miserable day flat hunting and traipsing around town in the spitting rain, finally got to the market as they were closing, cold, wet and desperate for a warm bath. Had a burger from Motherflipper, ok, it's a burger, how good can they be?

Being a greedy fucker and heavy on my feet I'd rather sit in a booth and have a Devastator and a pile of onion strings

Wouldn't know where to get them here.
The normal place - a pig's rectum.

Squid & chorizo for tea tonight

Was that in Olive magazine?

Aroogah, just one for you to salivate over - a crawfish boil from last weekend...

*weeps uncontrollably

That is how I would solve the invasive crawfish problem in UK rivers. Pop up cajun food places.

Crawfish are a pest and delish, how are there not deep filled crawfish sandwiches for £1.20 in ever supermarket??

Anyone eaten at La Bodega Negra? Looks like fun but would like to know if its just a gimmick.

Crispin - they're an invasive pest but labour intensive to catch and illegal to farm. Thats why they aint in the shops, but you can fish them yourself easy enough if you know the right spots.

Anyone eaten at La Bodega Negra? Looks like fun but would like to know if its just a gimmick.

Everytime I consider that place, I look at the menu I think - "Meh." and walk up the road to Chipotle and eat a burrito instead.

I went to La Bodega Negra on Sunday evening. Would not recommend. The food was very Meh. Over-priced for the tiny "tapas" portions and expensive drinks too. The staff had long since disappeared up their own arses and the music is too loud to have a conversation. We asked them to turn the speaker over our table down, no can do was the reply..

Dinner at Redhook tonight, any hot tips on what not to miss?

We asked them to turn the speaker over our table down, no can do was the reply..

Never been to this place but that sort of attitude to customers is the height of wrongness.

Surf and turf, do it!

Crispin - they're an invasive pest but labour intensive to catch and illegal to farm. Thats why they aint in the shops, but you can fish them yourself easy enough if you know the right spots.

Aparently loads in hamsted ponds giving unsuspecting swimmers a nip now and again

Noted.

I'd be up for some crawfish catching!

walk up the road to Chipotle and eat a burrito instead.

this should be a response to more things. Fuckin' love Chipotle. The one on Charing Cross Road gave me all the extras for free. I was more full after that than after the Devastator burger from Red Dog Saloon.

Crispin - they're an invasive pest but labour intensive to catch and illegal to farm. Thats why they aint in the shops, but you can fish them yourself easy enough if you know the right spots.

Good answer digs out waders and night vision goggles

Going to the Tate Modern tonight, any reccos on cheap plentiful food for after, without having walk too far?

I've been looking into crayfish catching/trapping recently as 1) I like the idea of catching/killing my own food, and 2) they are an aggressive pest that is killing off indigenous species and destroying the banks of our rivers and canals, and 3) they are tasty.

To be legal you have to have a license to trap them, which is granted by the Environment Agency (EA). If you're using traps then you'll need to make sure they meet certain criteria (otter and water vole proof for one), and you'll want to check them at least once every 24 hours as they will happily eat each other if there is no other food about.

You also have to be quite specific on the license application about where you'll be fishing and what type of/how many traps you'll be using. The reason for this is that the invasive Red Signal crayfish carry a "crayfish plague" that they are immune to but kills the native crayfish. So you have to be careful to ensure you minimise the risk of contaminating clean waterways with the "plague".

At the end of your license period you are required to fill out a form to inform the EA of the numbers you've been catching.

It's also illegal to keep live crayfish though I think you'll be OK carrying them from the River to the cook pot.

Going to the Tate Modern tonight, any reccos on cheap plentiful food for after, without having walk too far?

Tas in Borough?

Not exactly cheap but kinda good - table
Elliots in borough are great - not exactly cheap, but great.
There's vapiano on southwark st. It's ok, cheapish.
Menier choc factory - it's ok.
Tortilla?!

El Vergel on webber st? May too far out the way.

Ooooh cheers, like the look of Tas Pide

Christ, cannibalistic and aggressive, and now fucking plague carrying? What kind of monster are we up against here??