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Brick Lane Beigel Bake - review by french_girl

Mon, 21 Jul 2008 21:36:57 +0000

Brick Lane Beigel Bake - review by french_girl

Rating: 4.5

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

Young Cheng - review by alaburb

Thu, 17 Jul 2008 23:51:24 +0000

Young Cheng - review by alaburb

Rating: 4.7

Location: 76 Shaftesbury Avenue, W1D 6ND, London, United Kingdom

Phone: 020 7437 0237

Tags: crowded, cheap eat, chinese

This was a staple of my student days.

Cheap good food (rice comes with your main dish).

Expect to get squeezed against someone you don't know. You can't snaek in the back door anymore to avoid the que in the front. Chinese have the luxury of ordering from the more interesting Chinese menu (there seem to be lots of different menus in this place).

Tip: ask for the ginger sauce that comes in a little side dish - delicious with Chinese Broccoli and tofu.

Favourite dish: Salt and Pepper Squid yummmmmmmmmmmmm.

Brick Lane Beigel Bake - review by lva

Wed, 09 Jul 2008 02:39:39 +0000

Brick Lane Beigel Bake - review by lva

Rating: 4.5

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.

Ciao Bella - review by mazphd

Wed, 02 Jul 2008 22:19:15 +0000

Ciao Bella - review by mazphd

Rating: 4.7

Location: 90 Lambs Conduit Street, WC1N 3LZ, London, United Kingdom

Phone: 020 7242 4119

Tags: italian, good value, crowded, romantic, lively

favoloso as the Italians say. This place is a great little venue in such an upcoming and 'trendy' part of town. Overspill onto the street to people watch. But best of all before you even set sights on this eaterie as you turn down Guilford Place there's a wonderful aroma in the air, spices, garlic and tomatoes. All the best of home cooked Italian.

Best of all the menu's a sweet treat of the mostly sterotypical made just like mama dishes. Pasta and Pizza feature heavily and everything is freshly prepared and with such zeal ! I saw one waiter so charming with his service that the couple who had come only for coffee stayed for a three course luncheon, complete with a bottle of wine. If only we were all so easily swayed.

Wine here could be better. But prices are so reasonable that one can overlook this.

I'm looking forward to being in this part of the city again, so i can follow my nose and catch the real italian spices in the air again. Yum

Young Cheng - review by ajwilcox

Wed, 02 Jul 2008 10:46:24 +0000

Young Cheng - review by ajwilcox

Rating: 4.7

Location: 76 Shaftesbury Avenue, W1D 6ND, London, United Kingdom

Phone: 020 7437 0237

Tags: lively, good value, chinese, crowded

Great place for a quick chinese upstairs. Fantastic bowls of noodles, meat and veg.

Downstairs I have entertained various groups of people with the crispy pigs intestines.

Once sat next to an English guy who said this was the only place that compared to Hong Kong where he spent most of his time working.

Brick Lane Beigel Bake - review by ChloeBuxton

Thu, 20 Mar 2008 14:27:55 +0000

Brick Lane Beigel Bake - review by ChloeBuxton

Rating: 4.5

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

Phone: 020 7729 0826

When I went (my first time), they hardly had anything we asked for because their ovens were broken. Pretty poor service too as the staff kept chatting amongst themselves and didn't even notice us at the counter and we were starving!! The beigels made up for it (but only just).

Brick Lane Beigel Bake - review by SiReine

Thu, 20 Mar 2008 12:25:51 +0000

Brick Lane Beigel Bake - review by SiReine

Rating: 4.5

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

Phone: 020 7729 0826

Andy's review is spot on (and v. funny).

I never really rated bagels till I had one of those. On a visit to the Big Apple I thought I could find a salt beef bagel that would beat the ones from Brick Lane...

Nop! Didn't happen...
They're so nice you can have them plain!

I have been known for leaving the shop with bags full of bagels which will then travel back to West London and end up straight in the freezer!

On a lazy Sunday morning...while you put a few bagels in the oven (2/3 minutes), you can rustle up some scrambled eggs, add a couple of slices of smoked salmon onto plates and Bob's Uncle!

Posh breakfast doesn't have to be time consuming... and that leave you more time for.... other things!

;0)

John Snow - review by andymyers

Tue, 11 Mar 2008 00:02:04 +0000

John Snow - review by andymyers

Rating: 4.6

Location: 39 Broadwick Street, W1F 9QP, London, United Kingdom

Phone: 020 7437 1344

The John Snow is an brilliant Sam Smith's pub, centrally located and very cheap. If you like your beer and a pub with some character, then this is a great option. The food is reasonable but beware the Alpine lager; though cheap, it will give you a serious hangover.

Lemonia - review by gastro1

Tue, 26 Feb 2008 19:17:07 +0000

Lemonia - review by gastro1

Rating: 2.6

Location: 89 Regent's Park Road, NW1 8UY, London, United Kingdom

Phone: 020 7586 7454

This establishment is a disgrace the food is absoluteley awful .

Lemonia along with 99% of Greek and Cypriot restaurants in London are the same.

Why can the Turks and Lebanese reproduce decent quality in London whilst the Greeks/Cypriots shame their nations cuisine !

Does not deserve the star but its the minimum one can give to publish the review.

Brick Lane Beigel Bake - review by andybrown

Sat, 08 Dec 2007 21:13:51 +0000

Brick Lane Beigel Bake - review by andybrown

Rating: 4.5

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

Phone: 020 7729 0826

Tags: lively, jewish, cheap eat, crowded

The mere mention of the place gets me slavering uncontrollably like a Pavlovian Pomeranian with mercury poisoning.

There is nothing dignified, sophisticated or "oh aren't we being multi-cultural" about this place. You sidestep London's best-placed begging pitch, you wander steamy-spectacled into the last hot hurrah of the Jewish East End, you queue with the cabbies and the ravers and the Shoreditch spuffers, you ask, you get, you pay, you're out. What do you need, a manual?

At the wrong end (if there is one) of Brick Lane's neon-drenched passanda and pilau paradise, the bakery's policy remains very simple; let's make beigels better than anyone else in London, let's sell them ridiculously cheap, let's never close.

The fact that their black breads, chollas and chocolate brownies are exemplary is almost an irrelevance - everyone in their right mind comes for one of two things, smoked salmon and cream cheese, or hot salt beef and mustard. In a beigel.

On a cold winter's night, in the blank space between alcohol and a sweaty night bus, the black hole of the beigel is the event horizon to my appetite's atmospheric particle, drawing me inexorably towards it, filled with moist chewy salty hunks of brisket, oozing with the sweet hot bite of english mustard and comehereyoubeautycometopapa!

Ye Olde Mitre - review by squirrel

Thu, 22 Nov 2007 10:56:54 +0000

Ye Olde Mitre - review by squirrel

Rating: 4.0

Location: 1 Ely Court, EC1N 6SJ, London, United Kingdom

Phone: 020 7405 4751

Tags: rare finds, bargain

The other reviews say almost everything I wanted to say, but I thought I'd also add this:

The pub does become very full, mostly full of men of the "I am not moving aside for anyone, especially a girl", variety, but you can book the little alcove sitting room on the ground floor and there you can be blissfully undisturbed yet close to the bar.

The olives are great, as are the pickled eggs, if pickled eggs are your thing.

The cider is nice and murky, the decor is well and truly old pub style/

The men behind the bar are lovely.

Let's hope the publican doesn't succumb to the alarming Time To Yuppify This Pub (throw in a few chandeliers, huge mirrors, wooden floors) trend and keeps Ye Old Mitre just as it is.

Brick Lane Beigel Bake - review by Aasthaminocha

Tue, 13 Nov 2007 15:47:02 +0000

Brick Lane Beigel Bake - review by Aasthaminocha

Rating: 4.5

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

Phone: 020 7729 0826

Although probably I liked it coz I was starving!
:D

Brick Lane Beigel Bake - review by stumitch

Tue, 13 Nov 2007 02:01:36 +0000

Brick Lane Beigel Bake - review by stumitch

Rating: 4.5

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

Phone: 020 7729 0826

Tags: good value, british, jewish, family & home feel, cheap eat

Visit Columbia Road flower market, cruise the junk shops and stalls at Brick Lane, then drop in here for sustenance. Smoked Salmon and Cream Cheese are fantastic!

The Grapes - review by mif

Wed, 24 Oct 2007 00:46:29 +0000

The Grapes - review by mif

Rating: 4.0

Location: 76 Narrow Street, E14 8BP, London, United Kingdom

Phone: 020 7987 4396

Tags: sunday roast, rare finds

This historic little pub is so quaint that it's worth dropping into if you're in the area and if there's room! Service is friendly, even the other diners who were there when we dropped by on a Sunday were friendly. They serve a delicious Sunday roast - it's either pork or lamb on alternate weekends. That Sunday it was pork's turn and it was so good we practically breathed it down with a few pints. There is a tiny veranda overlooking the Thames where it is incredibly relaxing to sit with a few mates and a few more pints on a sunny day. All the action is overseen by who I'm guessing is the resident mascot, Max, a German Shepherd inclined to mind his own business while happily doing the rounds in the place.

Brick Lane Beigel Bake - review by Shona

Tue, 16 Oct 2007 11:45:24 +0000

Brick Lane Beigel Bake - review by Shona

Rating: 4.5

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

Phone: 020 7729 0826

Tags: american, jewish, cheap eat, crowded

Always busy not matter when you go. The salt beef bagels area bargain, with enough meat to fill 2 bagels. If you passing make sure you stop and try one. The cakes are super cheap as well.