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Restaurant London Bridge area
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Horrendous rip off chains full of tourists.
It wasn’t a recommendation. It was in response to Spymaster saying there wasn’t m/any restaurants at Tower Bridge.
marty21
One on one? You're crazy.
I like the London Bridge area - plenty of decent pubs - easy to get to and from, plenty of restaurants, Borough Market, it's on the river . Tower Bridge seems more remote and not as much goes on, apart from the bridge going up and down occasionally.
AverageJoe
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I went there with the Baroness once. Amazing fun.I was going to say 'there's also that splendid medieval banquet place!' but Google suggests it's permanently shut.
(Yes, yes I did have a terrible terrible work Christmas party there. Drinking extremely heavily was literally the only way to get through it. At least my Spanish boss forked out for decent wine as he reckoned the stuff provided with the Christmas party deal was undrinkable.)
I was sat next to a quite bawdy middle aged American a few years older than me who decided to match me pint for pint.
His missus was like "Oh Al, no..."
I've never had so many high fives in my life. He could barely walk at the end. Fun times.
(tbh, the food and drink was not amazing but functional, it's meant to be a medieval banquet so what are you expecting, but the entertainment and the atmosphere was top notch).
Spymaster
Plastic Paddy
Not so much Tower Bridge, there are loads of restaurants around Shad Thames. I was thinking more of that newish stretch along the river between the bridge and the Belfast.
I used to basically live at that end of Tooley St hence I know a bit about the area. Was a bit of a wasteland even then but this is over 20 years ago so might have changed (although sounds like it hasn’t).
Spymaster
Plastic Paddy
It's been developed into City Hall, and very expensive apartment blocks for oligarchs.
I was sub letting a council flat from a friend’s sister whilst she fucked off to South Africa for a bit. Presumably the estate has been bulldozed by now.
skyscraper101
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I walk along the South Bank Thames path from London Bridge to Canada Water via Shad Thames most days.
Butlers Wharf Chop House which overlooks Tower Bridge from the non-touristy side is nice and they seems to do a very nice steak and chips.
Butlers Wharf Chop House which overlooks Tower Bridge from the non-touristy side is nice and they seems to do a very nice steak and chips.
ash
Inittogether
We’ve booked thanks. My mates son used to live and work in China so she’s spent a lot of time there and HK so she’s well up for it!
May Kasahara
take me to the feeling
Nice, hope you enjoy 
ash
Inittogether
We won’t ordered far too much but it was all really nice thanks for the recommendation.
Epona
Radar 2006-2020, Sonic 2006-2022, Jakey 2007-2024
I used to go there every so often as it was near where a friend lived and they liked to have their birthday dos etc there - I have looked at their menu recently and it seems to be more kind of regular Thai/Malay food these days than it used to be 20 or so years back, when (unless they do specials that aren't on the menu - which it has to be said offers a wide variety of dishes - on the website) they used to offer some very adventurous dishes - I've eaten stuff like sesame frogs' legs, also a starter involving peacock (which unsurprisingly tastes like pheasant!) there way back in the mists of time.
Quite fond memories of the place.
(Of course I can't eat there now because I developed a stupid peanut allergy, and like a lot of SE Asian restaurants they prepare peanut based dishes in the kitchen
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