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bimble said:
This place.. but don't tell everyone. Our Restaurant - YMCA Indian Student Hostel, London
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Sounds interesting to try. Lots of historical background in their brochure.

But what are those comments about the workshop led by NY Narconon?

From what I have heard Narconon is an invention of L Ron Hubard and the Church of Scientology, one of whose interests in life is to get into the drugs market - like a quasi 12 Step AA movement presumably. Join Narconon, get clean of drugs - and by the way we do these very beneficial free personality tests......

Stick to the curry and you'll be OK. No seminars or surveys.
 
CH1 said:
Sounds interesting to try. Lots of historical background in their brochure.

But what are those comments about the workshop led by NY Narconon?

From what I have heard Narconon is an invention of L Ron Hubard and the Church of Scientology, one of whose interests in life is to get into the drugs market - like a quasi 12 Step AA movement presumably. Join Narconon, get clean of drugs - and by the way we do these very beneficial free personality tests......

Stick to the curry and you'll be OK. No seminars or surveys.
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editor is a BIGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGG fan of Narcanon!!!!!!!!!!!!!! :D :D :D
 
Presumably the Boom Burger is no longer going to open on Station rd.

Wrong! Opening 'early next year' apparently
 
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Have you tried the Chocolate Museum on Ferndale Road?

You could give them a bell to see if they recommend anywhere or if they're running a make your own course?

Nicest thing I've eaten recently is pistachio cream filled, icing sugar dusted, thin n crispy shelled mini croissants (they do a chocolate/hazelnut filling too) for 75p from MacFarlane's Deli - Fromagerie and Fine Foods 48 Abbeville Rd.

It's like an Alandins' cave of pure food wonderment that place.
 
Here's a round up for 2015. I didn't write it because I'm (a) not a foodie and (b) can't write much past "it was nice" and "I didn't like it" when it comes to reviewing food :D

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Brixton Food review 2015: the best restaurants and cafes – and the saddest losses
 
bimble said:
Who is Jimmy and what's rock?
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Good question.

Rock Salmon, aka dogfish, huss, rock eel etc, refers to a number of small shark species found in European waters. The names given to it in chippies (Sweet William is another) are basically marketing ploys to obscure what it actually is.

When you order "rock" you may be served any of several species.
 
Spymaster said:
Good question.

Rock Salmon, aka dogfish, huss, rock eel etc, refers to a number of small shark species found in European waters. The names given to it in chippies (Sweet William is another) are basically marketing ploys to obscure what it actually is.

When you order "rock" you may be served any of several species.
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Blimey. Wikipedia says a rockfish might even be one of these:
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Brixton Rock sounds very similar but is sub £8 so cheaper than Jimmys.

All cooked to order phone in advance available.

But then Rock is on Acre Lane next to Mr Riffic? where a portion of fish n chips was £4.90.

But I use to be a big fan of Bennys in Clapham Old Town which quite frankly for £6 will absolutely piss on all their chips.

Why is Brixton more expensive than Clapham Old Town? Why is Rock cheaper than Jimmys? Why the fact Rock has appeared less than 10 doors down from an established Brixton business where people can buy decent (well ish) fish n chips for under a fiver was surpassed by £8+ fish n chips.....

You know in all other threads Brixton is in poverty so trying to prompt change in the sub £5 chip shop to the £8 chip shop makes prefect sense?
 
superfly101 said:
Brixton Rock sounds very similar but is sub £8 so cheaper than Jimmys.
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Weeelll, chips cost a bit more than Jimmy's and I doubt very much they're any better or that there's more in the wrapper - but I'm not quibbling because I can see that their menu is priced at normal prices compared to the vast majority of groovy fucker places opening up around town.
 
editor said:
Weeelll, chips cost a bit more than Jimmy's and I doubt very much they're any better
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I cannot imagine better chips than those from Jimmy's made fresh to order for me today and served in an open twist of paper that was able to handle lavish loads of vinegar without even dripping at all, and stayed hot all the way home.
This is where the words artisanal and small batch mean something. My favourite ones, I think, were where they fried the curved edge of the spud, so you get a thing with only 2 sides, one rounded and one so crispy it looks like a crisp.
 
Random thoughts from Sunday:

- Nanban's chicken noodle soup (miyazaki ramen, I think?) has enough protein, salt and flavour in it to raise the dead, even if it's a bit overpriced at £11. Careful, clever cooking with almost too much savoury umami deliciousness. Decent quality chicken, properly dirty broth, amazingly bouncy noodles. Staff were friendly enough but not overpowering. Went there just as a New Year experiment and it might get more regular but they will really have to go some to outdo Khaosarn's Bangkok noodle soup bowl, which is larger and cheaper (and more complex in taste).

- When the fuck does Parissi on Atlantic Road EVER open? I have fond memories of a really nice pastry + coffee there one time, but on the past four or five occasions I've walked past it on a weekend it's always closed.

- same question for the "food court" thing being built into the warren of back-alleys between Electric Avenue & Electric Lane. It's more my sort of thing - cheap cheerful small-scale or family-runLatin American kiosks or mini stalls mostly, by the look of it, exactly what I would prefer to support - I just can't figure out when you are supposed to go there if you want to exchange cash for food.
 
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trabuquera said:
Random thoughts from Sunday:

- Nanban's chicken noodle soup (miyazaki ramen, I think?) has enough protein, salt and flavour in it to raise the dead, even if it's a bit overpriced at £11. Careful, clever cooking with almost too much savoury umami deliciousness. Decent quality chicken, properly dirty broth, amazingly bouncy noodles. Staff were friendly enough but not overpowering. Went there just as a New Year experiment and it might get more regular but they will really have to go some to outdo Khaosarn's Bangkok noodle soup bowl, which is larger and cheaper (and more complex in taste).

- When the fuck does Parissi on Atlantic Road EVER open? I have fond memories of a really nice pastry + coffee there one time, but on the past four or five occasions I've walked past it on a weekend it's always closed.

- same question for the "food court" thing being built into the warren of back-alleys between Electric Avenue & Electric Lane. It's more my sort of thing - cheap cheerful small-scale or family-runLatin American kiosks or mini stalls mostly, by the look of it, exactly what I would prefer to support - I just can't figure out when you are supposed to go there if you want to exchange cash for food.
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The burger in Nanban is excellent.
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trabuquera said:
Random thoughts from Sunday:

- Nanban's chicken noodle soup (miyazaki ramen, I think?) has enough protein, salt and flavour in it to raise the dead, even if it's a bit overpriced at £11. Careful, clever cooking with almost too much savoury umami deliciousness. Decent quality chicken, properly dirty broth, amazingly bouncy noodles. Staff were friendly enough but not overpowering. Went there just as a New Year experiment and it might get more regular but they will really have to go some to outdo Khaosarn's Bangkok noodle soup bowl, which is larger and cheaper (and more complex in taste).
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Must give Kaosan another try. I went there a couple of times when it first opened - the first was amazing and the second disappointing. Then it kind of slipped off the radar.
 
Yeah, I haven't been there since it first opened. I was mightily unimpressed with a curry I had there so never went again. But maybe I should give it another chance - it's often rammed - all those people can't be wrong, can they?!
 
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