Mei Mei in Borough Market specialize in traditional Singaporean cooking & Hainanese chicken rice. The place is ‘apparently’ famous run by Michelin starred Elizabeth Haigh, ex head chef at east London’s Pidgin and is described as ‘a kopotiam for everyone’ on their instagram page. All I knew before visiting is that they sold Hainanese chicken rice, a…
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Dumpling Shack and Fen Noodles
Dumpling Shack and Fen Noodles located in The Kitchens section of Old Spitalfields Market are part of the same group serving up as you may well have guessed dumplings and noodles. I had come for Fen Noodles but once I saw the dumpling stall I knew I had to have those as well anyway I…
The Pit Stop Café at Berwick Street Market – Fantastic Fried Rice and Malaysian Curry
The Pitstop Café Berwick Street Van was the street food vendor with the longest queue when we visited Berwick Street Market for lunch last week. To be fair, we walked up and down the street checking everyone else out, but we ended up walking back to the small white caravan surrounded by the hungry horde. There were many…
Wild Caper at Brixton Market
Wild Caper in the Brixton Market is a small café that is mainly selling Eastern Mediterranean food. I was really tempted to try some of their Meze dishes especially the ‘Meatballs Saganaki’ essentially Beef meatballs with a tomato sauce and melted Kaseri cheese for £5. We also really fancied the Pork Belly wrap for £4.75 which was a…
Cafe Caribbean at Spitalfield Market
Café Caribbean in old Spitalfields market is the sort of place that you hope to find when hunting for lunch. The counter is filled with a whole plethora of delicious looking vats of Caribbean food. It looks homemade and authentic, it IS homemade and authentic, and in the end it tasted homemade and authentic. Their website tells…
The Ginger Pig – A Sausage Roll recommendation followed by Chops and Bacon
The Ginger Pig has six butchers shop across London all supplied from their North Yorkshire farm land. Tim Wilson says on their website that “At the heart of everything we do is good animal husbandry and welfare; livestock that is looked after well in the field will simply taste better on the plate”. That is…
Boston Sausage at Borough Market – Super Sausage Burgers
Boston Sausage have been trading at London’s Borough Market since 2007 and can be found there six days a week. Their hot food stand where they serve up a choice of sausage baps and burgers is in the Green Market right next to the Southwark Cathedral grounds. It gets pretty busy later in the day down…
Kappacasein – A Total Grilled Cheese Fest
This weekend I headed over to Borough Market to hunt down some essential and perhaps not so essential tasty morsels. Even before I left I knew exactly which stall I was going to be starting off at for that pre-shopping snack! That Stall of choice, was the Kappacasein stall, which as always was located right on the…
Pâté Moi – Mushroom Pate at the Borough market
It is not often that I get that excited about things that do not focus on Meat or bacon related products, but on occasion I take an exeption and one of those is the Pâté Moi, a Mushroom Pate that I found in London’s Borough Market. It is described as being “hand made with organic mushrooms from…
Real Food Market at the Southbank
The Real Food Market is held every week on Friday to Sunday from January to December on the Southbank Centre Square, behind the Royal Festival Hall. I was down here for the bank holiday weekend and had heard about the market via Twitter but had not realized until I got back and read their website that…
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