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Brick Lane Beigel Bake - review by foodbymark

Rating: 4.6

Location: 159 Brick Lane, E1 6SB, London, United Kingdom

Phone: 020 7729 0826

Tags: delicatessen, jewish history

Little remains of Brick Lane's Jewish past except for the famous two remaining bagel shops that neighbour each other at the end of the street. 24 hours a day you can satisfy your hunger with bagels filled with of mounds of soft delicious salt beef or smoked salmon and cream cheese, and again, 24 hours a day!

Late night drinking at Shoreditch house can often lead to a stumble to the busy bakery and waking up at home with 20 bagels and a shirt covered in English mustard (Have you ever tried to pay a cabbie in bagels... I am told I have more than once). The salt beef here is good, but certainly not the best in London. The Brass Rail Salt Beef Bar at Selfridges ranks highly as does B&K in Edgware. Harry Morgans chain not nearly as good as either but still quality. The staff are typically East London and I love it.

As far as a comparison between the two bakeries, I am a Beigel Bake man.]]> Sat, 13 Sep 2008 12:32:35 +0000 /review/uk/london/food/1n52x8f/brick-lane-beigel-bake2132803779 delicatessen jewish history 51.522129 -0.071709 Zuma - review by john1887 http://trustedplaces.com/review/uk/london/restaurant/1n52x86/zuma
Zuma - review by john1887

Rating: 4.4

Location: 5 Raphael Street, SW7 1DL, London, United Kingdom

Phone: 020 7584 1010

Website: http://www.zumarestaurant.com

Tags: french

wow, great place, great food]]> Fri, 05 Sep 2008 13:32:28 +0000 /review/uk/london/restaurant/1n52x86/zuma1927535817 french 51.500888786466 -0.16303947422594 Brick Lane Beigel Bake - review by Artemidor http://trustedplaces.com/review/uk/london/food/1n52x8f/brick-lane-beigel-bake
Brick Lane Beigel Bake - review by Artemidor

Rating: 4.6

Location: 159 Brick Lane, E1 6SB, London, United Kingdom

Phone: 020 7729 0826

Tags: bargain

I love beigels. And this bakery is everything waiting for. The queues can be huge, especially at night. It is full of taxi drivers and late clubbers. But the food⬦ ah, the salted beef beigel is my best snack in London. The beef is absolutely tasty (not something that you can find elsewhere).

I would like to add that they also sell cakes. I tried a chocolate fudge cake and it almost melted in my hand. It was absolutely lovely. I think I saw some Jewish cakes (or similar), but I had no more cash at hand! So, my advice: go for a salted beef beigel and a cake.
]]> Thu, 04 Sep 2008 16:31:32 +0000 /review/uk/london/food/1n52x8f/brick-lane-beigel-bake1957377314 bargain 51.522129 -0.071709 Brick Lane Beigel Bake - review by abcjess http://trustedplaces.com/review/uk/london/food/1n52x8f/brick-lane-beigel-bake
Brick Lane Beigel Bake - review by abcjess

Rating: 4.6

Location: 159 Brick Lane, E1 6SB, London, United Kingdom

Phone: 020 7729 0826

Tags: delicatessen, bargain

especially late at night, after a night out when theres about a million other places around trying to sell you absolute unconsumable rubbish. It's a nice feeling swallowing down their soft bagels knowing that you aren't gonna chuck that up in the morning - your stomach just wouldn't allow it!

I've heard alot about the salt beef here, but have yet to try it myself but I can comment on their quick service - i found it a bit dinner ladie lunch queue ish, which just brings feelings of nostalgia, good nostalgia. With such generous fillings (and prices that reflect how much change you'd probably have in your pocket at 3am) it deserves atlest 6 michelin stars.]]> Tue, 02 Sep 2008 14:26:06 +0000 /review/uk/london/food/1n52x8f/brick-lane-beigel-bake1915921254 delicatessen bargain 51.522129 -0.071709 Brick Lane Beigel Bake - review by shopaholcleo http://trustedplaces.com/review/uk/london/food/1n52x8f/brick-lane-beigel-bake
Brick Lane Beigel Bake - review by shopaholcleo

Rating: 4.6

Location: 159 Brick Lane, E1 6SB, London, United Kingdom

Phone: 020 7729 0826

Tags: bargain

I love this place! Open day or night, it doesn't seem to be affected by the credit crunch and the bagels remain cheap. There can be a queue, but there are always so many people working here, so you'll always get served quickly. I always grab a dozen to freeze and they still taste good once defrosted. The cakes and pastries are also good, and reasonable, so a lunch could cost you less than £2, which is rare for London. Smoked Salmon and cream cheese is a must. It's always lively and has a real East End feel, and I shall be having many more visits.]]> Mon, 01 Sep 2008 00:54:15 +0000 /review/uk/london/food/1n52x8f/brick-lane-beigel-bake483440079 bargain 51.522129 -0.071709 Brick Lane Beigel Bake - review by trinity http://trustedplaces.com/review/uk/london/food/1n52x8f/brick-lane-beigel-bake
Brick Lane Beigel Bake - review by trinity

Rating: 4.6

Location: 159 Brick Lane, E1 6SB, London, United Kingdom

Phone: 020 7729 0826

Tags: delicatessen

One of my favourite places to eat, 24 hour yummy, delicious Beigels. My fave is deffinatly the salt beef and mustard, altho My mum like chopped herring and cream cheese (blleurrghh) well each to their own. Great cakes too reccomend the carrot cake.]]> Tue, 26 Aug 2008 01:34:22 +0000 /review/uk/london/food/1n52x8f/brick-lane-beigel-bake453282857 delicatessen 51.522129 -0.071709 Bombay Palace - review by 263481 http://trustedplaces.com/review/uk/london/restaurant/1281h6n/bombay-palace
Bombay Palace - review by 263481

Rating: 4.3

Location: 50 Connaught Street, W2 2AA, London, United Kingdom

Phone: 020 7723 8855

Website: http://www.bombay-palace.com

Tags: indian, family & home feel, expensive

I have been to many indian restaurants and by far this is trully one of the best three. The Baby leg of lamb is amazing. I believe they are one of the very few indian restaurants that serve Indian food the way it is meant to be served.]]> Tue, 26 Aug 2008 10:01:31 +0000 /review/uk/london/restaurant/1281h6n/bombay-palace2049796444 indian family & home feel expensive 51.513560731511 -0.16829462694483 Brick Lane Beigel Bake - review by moner http://trustedplaces.com/review/uk/london/food/1n52x8f/brick-lane-beigel-bake
Brick Lane Beigel Bake - review by moner

Rating: 4.6

Location: 159 Brick Lane, E1 6SB, London, United Kingdom

Phone: 020 7729 0826

What can I say apart from great beigel. I highly recommended this place. It has clean and tidy premises. They seem to have good hygiend praxctices whilst preparing food. The shop has lots of fillings available and the beigels are freshly baked with a traditional taste. If you like beigels then this is the place for you. Other jewish specialities are also available also. The shop does get very busy as it is extremely popular, so you may have to queue-but as they say all good things are worth the wait..... The staff are very friednly and nice and offr a good service. Beigels are freshly made up to your order specifications in front of you.]]> Thu, 28 Aug 2008 23:13:02 +0000 /review/uk/london/food/1n52x8f/brick-lane-beigel-bake930016114 51.522129 -0.071709 Brick Lane Beigel Bake - review by chrisp http://trustedplaces.com/review/uk/london/food/1n52x8f/brick-lane-beigel-bake
Brick Lane Beigel Bake - review by chrisp

Rating: 4.6

Location: 159 Brick Lane, E1 6SB, London, United Kingdom

Phone: 020 7729 0826

Hello and welcome to my latest obsession - The Brick Lane Salt Beef Beigel. I feel the same way about these little beauties as I did when I first realised that the outwardly boring little pub at the end of my road actually turned out some of the best food in South West London - namely joy at the discovery, tinged with regret that it had taken me so long to make the effort to do so. God knows how many times I'd wasted the chance to try one whilst trooping up and down Brick Lane, dodging the hawkers for mediocre curry houses. A friend suggested the other day that if Boris Johnston added to his mayoral manifesto that every crappy curry house on Brick Lane had to by law post a sign on their front door reading "Just Go To Tayyabs", then even he'd vote for him.

Anyway, what's so special about salt beef? It's a fair question, and one I have asked myself until recently. It doesn't sound particularly appetising does it, salty beef. But try and imagine half a dozen generous slabs of juicy pink flesh, tasty rather than overly salty, bursting out of a georgeously soft fresh beigel (they churn them out at an incredible rate, so they will generally be very fresh), zinging with fiery English mustard and with a couple of gherkins on the side. There is a satisfying 'squeak' as you bite through the bread into the meat, from the unique texture of the preserved beef, and the fat in the meat oozes flavour.

Needless to say, there are numerous outlets in London purporting to sell 'salt beef sandwiches' that are actually just depressing mass-produced 'beef ham' and nothing like the real thing. Don't be fooled. In my (incredibly limited) experience, as well as Brick Lane the Brass Rail bar in Selfridge's Food Hall also does some great (if overpriced) salt beef, and I'm sure many people will have their own favourites.

Brick Lane is about 15 minutes walk from my workplace; the chances of me making it through the winter without a cardiac episode are diminishing rapidly. But damn it, the salt beef beigels are cheap, gorgeous and uniquely London. They are almost worth dying for.]]> Wed, 13 Aug 2008 13:07:46 +0000 /review/uk/london/food/1n52x8f/brick-lane-beigel-bake995743299 51.522129 -0.071709 Pham Sushi - review by iktinos http://trustedplaces.com/review/uk/london/restaurant/1u1118s/pham-sushi
Pham Sushi - review by iktinos

Rating: 4.7

Location: 155 Whitecross St, EC1Y 8JL, London, United Kingdom

Phone: 020 7251 6336

Tags: japanese, good value

always booked out...but worth doing. Try the crunchy tuna roll.]]> Thu, 07 Aug 2008 23:01:08 +0000 /review/uk/london/restaurant/1u1118s/pham-sushi521177208 japanese good value 51.52227571692 -0.094427355521752 Brick Lane Beigel Bake - review by lenalouise http://trustedplaces.com/review/uk/london/food/1n52x8f/brick-lane-beigel-bake
Brick Lane Beigel Bake - review by lenalouise

Rating: 4.6

Location: 159 Brick Lane, E1 6SB, London, United Kingdom

Phone: 020 7729 0826

Tags: good value, bagel

I've always been a salmon and cream cheese kind of bagel girl but the other reviews convinced me to try out the salt beef. After a lazy Sunday afternoon hanging around Brick lane, I made my boyfriend accompany me to find Beigel bake and promptly ordered myself a bagel with salt beef and mustard. I really enjoyed it, the beef is so lovely, just the right texture and flavour. She did go a bit crazy with the mustard though...a bit much for me but I braved it and finished the whole thing anyway! I think I need to do what the other reviewers are doing and buy loads and keep them in the freezer.]]> Tue, 29 Jul 2008 01:41:34 +0000 /review/uk/london/food/1n52x8f/brick-lane-beigel-bake1652726199 good value bagel 51.522129 -0.071709 Brick Lane Beigel Bake - review by french_girl http://trustedplaces.com/review/uk/london/food/1n52x8f/brick-lane-beigel-bake
Brick Lane Beigel Bake - review by french_girl

Rating: 4.6

Location: 159 Brick Lane, E1 6SB, London, United Kingdom

Phone: 020 7729 0826

Tags: rare finds, straight forward service, best bagels, bargain

I love these and the best way to persuade me to take 2 buses and 2 tubes to visit my friend nearby.

Personally I love them with just cream cheese and tomatoe or just butter or with salad cream and cucumber if I'm in a really sulty food mood.

And open 24 hours great. One piece of advice if your taking them home to fill yourself / freeze ask for the ones that are still hot so they are as fresh as they get. Though to be honest the place is so busy the bagels would only ever be a few hours since making / baking.

Plain straight forward service no have a nice day fakeness]]> Mon, 21 Jul 2008 21:36:57 +0000 /review/uk/london/food/1n52x8f/brick-lane-beigel-bake1249287146 rare finds straight forward service best bagels bargain 51.522129 -0.071709 Brick Lane Beigel Bake - review by lva http://trustedplaces.com/review/uk/london/food/1n52x8f/brick-lane-beigel-bake
Brick Lane Beigel Bake - review by lva

Rating: 4.6

Location: 159 Brick Lane, E1 6SB, London, United Kingdom

Phone: 020 7729 0826

Tags: bargain

Sometimes I think this might be the actual best place in the whole of London. Delicious and very cheap bagels, available at any time of the day or night. Fantastic in just about every respect.]]> Wed, 09 Jul 2008 02:39:39 +0000 /review/uk/london/food/1n52x8f/brick-lane-beigel-bake896976057 bargain 51.522129 -0.071709 Gaucho Sloane - review by rogoff http://trustedplaces.com/review/uk/london/restaurant/1t9207l/gaucho-sloane
Gaucho Sloane - review by rogoff

Rating: 4.0

Location: 89 Sloane Avenue, SW3 3DX, London, United Kingdom

Phone: 020 7584 9901

Website: http://www.gauchosgrill.com

Tags: expensive, south american

The waiters come over with raw steaks and describe them to you so you can choose the cut you want. Great place for meat lovers.]]> Sat, 12 Apr 2008 15:15:18 +0000 /review/uk/london/restaurant/1t9207l/gaucho-sloane1517824475 expensive south american 51.491969327106 -0.16771975966042 Flaneur - review by LisaM http://trustedplaces.com/review/uk/london/restaurant/1883m7/flaneur
Flaneur - review by LisaM

Rating: 3.3

Location: 41 Farringdon Road, EC1M 3JB, London, United Kingdom

Phone: 020 7404 4422

Never in my life have I experienced such rudeness - so much so I was reduced to tears - and I'm still reeling!!

20 minutes after ordering the wine I got up and asked the bar man if it was on it's way - he told me to "ask him" (the manager). The wine finally arrived, and quite a while later so did our starters, which were very nice.

However, when the mains arrived that is when it rapidly went down hill. I had ordered a steak, to be rare - however it was not rare when it arrived. I waited to try and get the waiters attention (the manager), but to no avail. So I got up to go and speak to him and took my plate with me. When advising him that I had asked for my steak to be rare he said it was. I said that it's wasn't and politely asked if I could have another one - he then told me to stop being rude. Since when was it rude to ask for something the way you like it when you are paying for it? Eventually another steak was brought out, however I refused it and went without the rest of my dinner, had I not been with friends for a birthday dinner I would have left the restaurant. The service was appalling and the attitude of the staff - well it leaves alot to be desired. Flaneur could be a great place but the staff really let this place down.

There are plenty of alot better, and cheaper restaurants over this one so don't waste your time here.
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