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Food For Thought - review by seconds

Mon, 22 Sep 2008 18:09:09 +0000

Food For Thought - review by seconds

Rating: 3.8

Location: 31 Neal Street,, WC2H 9PR, London, United Kingdom

Phone: 020 7836 0239

As one of the other reviewers has noted, Food for Thought is a London institution! From the outside it is a tiny restaurant in Neal Street, but the whole basement is in use. Traditionally, you queue upstairs to take food away, and queue down the stairs (and the queue at lunchtimes always reaches down the length of the stairs and along the street) to eat at the benches or on cushions downstairs.

This is a vegetarianâ¬"s paradise (they serve only veggie food), but is also a delicious experience for meat eaters. Every day there are 2 or 3 different soups, 3 main meals, and a salad, plus 2 or 3 scrummy desserts. The menu changes each day. You can have anything you like for less than Â£5, but plan to spend more if it is your first visit, go when you are hungry and try a dessert as well!

Roxy Bar & Screen - review by bron99

Fri, 19 Sep 2008 12:14:31 +0000

Roxy Bar & Screen - review by bron99

Rating: 4.3

Location: 128-132 Borough High Street, SE1 1NP, London, United Kingdom

Phone: 020 7407 4075

Website: http://www.roxybarandscreen.com

Tags: lively, good value

The Roxy on Borough High Street is possibly a perfect destination. In essence it is a bar with a full size cinema screen that has a varied and interesting programme and an audience that is interested in what's on and buzzy and chatty the rest of the time. The food they serve is okay, possibly the weakest thing, though both food and bar service is friendly and helpful. If you're looking for something interesting to do when you meet up for a drink check out the programme here.

The Garrison - review by Jamesarama001

Wed, 10 Sep 2008 15:17:21 +0000

The Garrison - review by Jamesarama001

Rating: 3.8

Location: 101 Bermondsey Street, SE1 3XB, London, United Kingdom

Phone: 020 7089 9355

Website: http://www.thegarrison.co.uk/

Tags: lively, british, good value

The Garrison is a chilled and quirky pub along Bermondsey St and is conviently placed for relaxing drinking and eating (especially in the evenings and weekends). Its a quirky bar / restaurant with lots of odd antiques and objects lying and ahnging around. The Garrison offers a fantastic range of beer, ciders, wines and spirits. Much better than most bars in London. The pub is small and it can get busy but it always maintains a chilled atmoshpere. It's best to call and book a table or an area to sit. The food menu is great if you wish to have a meal. Its not a big meun but it covers all the areas and the food is great. I prefer to drink at the Garrison rather than having a meal, but overal its a lovely atmospheric quaint restaurant / bar and gets the thumbs up from me.

Food For Thought - review by hellyphant

Fri, 05 Sep 2008 16:42:17 +0000

Food For Thought - review by hellyphant

Rating: 3.8

Location: 31 Neal Street,, WC2H 9PR, London, United Kingdom

Phone: 020 7836 0239

Tags: vegetarian, east european, cheap eat, good value, crowded

Food for Thought is a small vegetarian cafe on Neal street in Covent Garden, and my favourite lunch-time haunt. It's incredibely popular with local office and shop workers and has many regulars.

On ground level there is a take away counter, behind which you can see staff cooking up fresh pots of lentil curries and spinnach soup and all other kinds of healthy dishes. Every day they serve a mixed salad which I would totally recommend - it normally comes with couscous, pasta, or potatoes so is quite filling. Fresh homemade bread is also available and is often still warm, tasting like it's just come out of the oven.

Prices are good value, especially for central london. A mixed salad and large chunk of fresh bread costs about Â£3.70.

Downstairs there are tables where you can eat in, although I never have myself. It always looks very crowded and claustrophic.

Also, bear in mind that queues can be long during the lunch hour - often spreading some way down Neal street, so it's best not to go there if you're in a rush. It's alot quieter before 12.30 or after 2pm.

I'm very glad I disvoered Food for Thought. It offers a tasty, healthy alternative to the monotony of yet another lunchtime sandwich.

Mildreds - review by Snowy

Wed, 03 Sep 2008 19:18:09 +0000

Mildreds - review by Snowy

Rating: 4.3

Location: 45 Lexington Street, W1F 9AN, London, United Kingdom

Phone: 020 7494 1634

Website: http://www.mildreds.co.uk/

We went to this restaurant for my birthday. On the good side, the food is nice, not exceptional but fine, though my boyfriend found his pie far too strong tasting and the staff are very attentive despite being really busy. The other side is that you cannot book, and have to wait in the corridor or bar where you are mostly in the way. However once you get your table, it is well worth it and is reasonable in price too. I didn't find that there was enough food though and that the tables are very close together. We were placed right on top off another couple.

Shunt Vaults - review by gregwo

Wed, 03 Sep 2008 13:04:58 +0000

Shunt Vaults - review by gregwo

Rating: 4.6

Location: 20 Stainer Street, SE1 9RL, London, United Kingdom

Phone: 020 7378 7776

Website: http://www.shunt.co.uk/

Tags: relaxed, cool & smart, young and fun, underground, friendly

The Shunt Vaults have an atmosphere that can't be matched-- deep in the tunnels of London Bridge Shunt is making amazingly craetive work in the context of a members bar. It's a fantastic evening where you can enjoy some drinks and check out whatever is on offer that week to see-- bands performance art, theatre or a range of other things. The place has a great buzz about it and there's nothing that I know of like it around. The work they create there is so interesting and diverse, you'll always be in for something new every time you go!

Most definitely worth checking out!

The Holly Bush - review by chrisp

Thu, 28 Aug 2008 14:18:29 +0000

The Holly Bush - review by chrisp

Rating: 4.3

Location: 22 Holly Mount, NW3 6SG, London, United Kingdom

Phone: 020 7435 2892

Website: http://www.hollybushpub.com/

Tags: posh, standard pub food, independent pub

Ignore the "gastropub" tag that is sometimes attached to this place - the Holly Bush serves middling-to-good food and has a pretty limited wine list. But for a pint of nicely kept ale in some achingly pretty surroundings, there's probably nowhere better in Hampstead. A great place to take tourists or visiting friends for a taste of 18th century London quaintness.

Food For Thought - review by bee_girl

Thu, 28 Aug 2008 00:14:06 +0000

Food For Thought - review by bee_girl

Rating: 3.8

Location: 31 Neal Street,, WC2H 9PR, London, United Kingdom

Phone: 020 7836 0239

Tags: lively, good value, crowded, vegetarian

A Vegetarian restaurant in a great spot in Covent Garden. For vegetarians or non vegetarians alike, I think itâ¬"s top quality food at very reasonable prices, something you donâ¬"t get very often. It also puts to bed all stereotypes about vegetarian food that may exist. However, if you want a long chat with friends with a long side down meal, save for another day. It can get very crowded and hard to get a place. Tables are canteen like and as food is serve yourself it can be a very quick processâ¬¦.deserts are also brilliant though so stay for that!

Mildreds - review by boxinghefner

Sun, 24 Aug 2008 12:17:50 +0000

Mildreds - review by boxinghefner

Rating: 4.3

Location: 45 Lexington Street, W1F 9AN, London, United Kingdom

Phone: 020 7494 1634

Website: http://www.mildreds.co.uk/

Tags: lively, good value, vegetarian, french

As you enter this resturant what becomes most clear is the open and airy ambience it has, during the day time light floods in from the skylight situated near the rear of the resturant, making for a relaxed, open plan arrangement. Or you may be seated near the front of the resturant, which is also good for watching passers by. The food itself is mixed and varied; ranging from burgers and fries to mushroom pie. I opted for the latter and was nicely surprised to find fresh vegetables came with my very well done pastry pie. The price is middle of the range, and in no way prohibitively expensive. Well worth your time and money.

Shunt Vaults - review by girlswear

Mon, 18 Aug 2008 20:11:44 +0000

Shunt Vaults - review by girlswear

Rating: 4.6

Location: 20 Stainer Street, SE1 9RL, London, United Kingdom

Phone: 020 7378 7776

Website: http://www.shunt.co.uk/

Tags: live music, indie, cool & smart, live, electronica, young and fun, pool, underground, trendy, friendly, cool

This is one of my favourite places in London. The Shunt Vaults situated beneath the London Bridge, you can still feel the dampness and musty air of this Victorian vault.

No matter how often you visit, it's a different experience on it's own, mainly because each week is curated by a different artist including art, performance art, dance, live band and DJs. Permanent area includes a small pinball arcade and pool. You can go into different rooms with different things happening, or find that secret vault with your friends. Shunt is a MUST experience if you've never been, and you'll be addicted.

Shunt Vaults - review by chrisp

Mon, 18 Aug 2008 14:02:31 +0000

Shunt Vaults - review by chrisp

Rating: 4.6

Location: 20 Stainer Street, SE1 9RL, London, United Kingdom

Phone: 020 7378 7776

Website: http://www.shunt.co.uk/

Tags: trendy, cool & smart, young professionals, glamorous, young and fun, students, sexy

An extraordinary place, like stepping into a Jack-the-Ripper film set, only with alcohol and burlesque dancers. Set in a good acre of sooty disused railway arches and long-forgotten brick vaults underneath London Bridge station, Shunt is a completely unique experience and well worth the effort finding it (it's almost invisible from the outside). Drinks may be nothing special, and they didn't even serve food as far as I could tell, but you can have hours of fun just wandering through the grimy urban spaces, hiding in the shadows or dancing in the spotlights. There's nowhere else like it.

Andrew Edmunds - review by LynnH

Wed, 13 Aug 2008 16:40:27 +0000

Andrew Edmunds - review by LynnH

Rating: 4.6

Location: 46 Lexington Street, W1F 0LP, London, United Kingdom

Phone: 020 7437 5708

Great cosy romantic place. Food and wine excellent. One point though, no drinks apart from wine oh and water!!

Shunt Vaults - review by kellytron

Thu, 24 Jul 2008 23:12:39 +0000

Shunt Vaults - review by kellytron

Rating: 4.6

Location: 20 Stainer Street, SE1 9RL, London, United Kingdom

Phone: 020 7378 7776

Website: http://www.shunt.co.uk/

Tags: relaxed, young and fun, students, underground, trendy

This place just amazed me. I couldn't think of a more perfect venue. Massive space (with hidden nooks and crannies so pick how loud/busy an area you want to be in), performance, live music, art, pinball machines, cheap booze and even a truck with chairs on the tray to sit in. I actually passed about 30minutes pretending to drive this truck and honking the pretend horn - but this isn't compulsory although it does speak volumes about how much of the aforementioned cheap booze I may have consumed.

It's the sort of place you could take a jaded Hoxton-ite and actually get an impressed look out of them.

Shunt Vaults - review by rogoff

Sat, 14 Jun 2008 18:48:32 +0000

Shunt Vaults - review by rogoff

Rating: 4.6

Location: 20 Stainer Street, SE1 9RL, London, United Kingdom

Phone: 020 7378 7776

Website: http://www.shunt.co.uk/

Tags: cool, underground, friendly

I first went when there was a show called Tropicana here. We went through a little door in the wall of the tube station only to find ourselves in what looked like a London Transport staff room complete with Tube staff reading The Sun. From then on, the evening just got stranger and stranger as we were led into the vaults.

Anyway, that was the show and now there's the bar. I guess it's run by the same team who put on Tropicana because it's got the same quirky feel to it with quite a lot of the theatre too.

If you're looking for something fun and different then you won't find much better than this. Great space, great place.

Shunt Vaults - review by lottiebooth

Wed, 04 Jun 2008 14:44:38 +0000

Shunt Vaults - review by lottiebooth

Rating: 4.6

Location: 20 Stainer Street, SE1 9RL, London, United Kingdom

Phone: 020 7378 7776

Website: http://www.shunt.co.uk/

Tags: cool, cool & smart, young professionals, young and fun, underground, friendly, relaxed

I went here to the Shunt Lounge for "A Dickens Christmas" which was our office christmas party. Someone had shown me pictures before i went but nothing prepared me for how amazing those vaults are.

There are some pictures of the christmas party at http://www.dickenschristmasparty.co.uk