Whether you are in London for just 12 hours or for a week, you will always have the same problem - so little time and so much to see. Here are some of the 'incontournable' of London.
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This place has it all - great coffee, fantastic location, amazing staff and delicious food - not to mention the incredible sandwiches. We had the pulled pork and coleslaw bun and the Turkey, pastrami and Swiss cheese with spicy mayo bun. Both were absolutely incredible and it was a hard choice because quite frankly the whole menu looked delicious.
Where
Trade
47, Commercial Street
E1 6BD
London
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DF / Mexico is the new cool place in town serve some of the best burritos and tortillas I have had in a while.
They serve four kinds of food - NYC tortas, an homage to Mexico and NY fusion, soft corn tortillas perfectly seasoned, seriously perfect burritos and DIY Mexican boards. See the full menu here. All of the above are served and filled with either chicken, steak, fish or pork. There are also loads of sides to chose from - we definitely would suggest the lightly dusted chilli fries with chipotle sauce (which is to die for).
I took the fish tortillas and they were simply perfect. The panko crumbed cod was delicious (and cooked to perfection) and served with crunchy salad/red slaw and extremely good salsa (that chipotle mayo again), topped with a drizzle of lime all tucked into two soft tortillas.
The restaurant is hassle free and has a fast food vibe to whereby you order from a machine, pick up your 'all you can drink' drinks and simply wait for your food to arrive. If there are just two of you I recommend you sit near the window for a good session of 'people watching'.
Where
DF / Mexico
Old Truman Brewery
Hanbury Street
London
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Welcome to the baked doughnut evolution - Dum Dum Donutterie - where doughnuts are baked multiple times but not fried. These doughnuts are light, fluffy and sweet rather than oily and greasy - which let's be honest in some cases does the trick as well. They say these doughnuts have just teh right amount of fat. It all sounded too good, we just had to check out their new store at Boxpark.
Dum Dum don't only make 'traditional doughnuts', no that would be too easy. They also make cronuts, also known as crodoughs, and in this case croissant doughnuts. They are a mix between a croissant and a doughnut. We tried the the Zebra croissant doughnut - Layers of Croissant dough and chocolate croissant dough. Filled with chocolate butter crème and decorated with dark chocolate. I couldn't resist and had to try their Peter Andre's yum yum dum dum - I mean with a name like that. This little wonder is filled with Dulce de Leche crème and glazed while still warm and drizzled in chocolate.
The 'traditional doughnuts' come in a variety of flavours and fillings - we went for the double dipped almond glaze, the crème brûlée, the chocolate ganache and hazelnut and the strawberry purée fondant. So basically the only two we didn't try - now I really feel like a pig - were the raspberry preserve and the banatoffe. Oh well I guess we have an excuse to go back.
The result was an empty and sad looking pink box. I found the Zebra cronut absolutely delicious and delighted it didn't have all the oil from a traditional cronut - which was my big disappointment with the cronut, and that filling was just perfect - chocolate butter crème and decorated with dark chocolate. My favourite was probably the traditional crème brûlée doughnut which was filled with fresh custard creme coated with a crunchy caramel glaze.
Where:
Boxpark
Unit 31, Box Park
2-4 Bethnal Green Road
Shoreditch, London - E1 6GY
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I finally got round to trying out Arepa & Co - the Venezuelan Deli at De Beauvoir Crescent. A great little place for a quick lunch - even better on a sunny day - along the canal.
Arepa is a traditional dish in Columbia and Venezuela. It is a flatbread ( somewhat like a pitta) made of ground maize dough or cooked flour prominent in the cuisine of Venezuela. They serve arepa with all kinds of ingredients - chicken, pulled pork, grated cheese, guacamole, avocados, cucumber, tomatoes... you name it, they have the filling (picture above).I went for the chicken, cheddar, guacamole and plantas (basically grilled bananas).
Arepa & Co also do some amazing traditional Venezuelan scrambled eggs which are delicious with cachapa - also a traditional Venezuelan and Colombian dish made from corn. They look a lot like pancakes but made out of fresh corn dough and taste a bit sweater than you traditional flour-based pancake (pictures above with the sunday special - traditional scrambled eggs, beans, pulled pork and cheddar cheese.
If you go on a weekend, they will automatically hand you the special weekend menu, but don't hesitate to ask for their full list of arepa and cachapa options.
Where:
Arepa & CO
58A De Beauvoir Crescent, London
Greater London, Haggerston - N1 5SB
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