Quick London! Places to eat with my mum in about three hours!

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My mum is in London today, she's down for work for a racial equality seminar. I'm meeting her in Russel Square at 4:30. We are goin to have food before she gets the train back to the midlands.

But where? My mind has gone blank. I'd like your (cheapish, she's paying, but I don't want to take the piss) recomendations please. Things to consider: Jenny, my mum, has no truck with sushi and isn't too keen on the spicier end of things due to a loathing of corriander (shared to a certain extent by me).

― Anna (Anna), Wednesday, 24 November 2004 13:46 (twenty-one years ago)

where is pete when we need him? it's his manor.

― CarsmileSteve (CarsmileSteve), Wednesday, 24 November 2004 13:52 (twenty-one years ago)

ooh spooky double thread...

― CarsmileSteve (CarsmileSteve), Wednesday, 24 November 2004 13:53 (twenty-one years ago)

There are loads of places on Charlotte St, which isn't too far from russel sq. Zizzi's is good plain italian, fantastic wood fired pizzas, if a little unadventurous. Not sure about prices there, depends on your definition of cheap!

There's the hare and tortoise in the Brunswick centre.

Cheapish but out of the way, bodeans in soho for BBQ, wagamama is a good safety fall back (one near the british museum too)... ken otm with chinatown.

― Vicky (Vicky), Wednesday, 24 November 2004 13:59 (twenty-one years ago)

Elena's l'etoile on Charlotte Street is nice, their tarte tatin is yummy.

― leigh (leigh), Wednesday, 24 November 2004 14:04 (twenty-one years ago)

Vicky's probably spot on, but from Russel Sq I always think of going East rather than West. There is a superfriendly reliable-ish red sauce Italian more or less next door to the Lamb on Lamb's Conduit Street.

A couple of streets down from that there is a very nice little chinese (I've looked on Google and I think it might be Sheng's Tea House on Millman Street: it's on the east side of one of those streets parallel to Lamb's Conduit St and about 20 yards down). This is the kind of place I like to take my mum when she's in town: pleasant and quietish.

There's also that gastropub in that cute little mews just down there before you get to the Calthorpe - the Duke of York on Roger St.

I don't know when or whether any of the above start or stop serving food.

― Tim (Tim), Wednesday, 24 November 2004 14:07 (twenty-one years ago)

The Swiss centre used to be good. Gone from Leic Sq now though. Still in Victoria?

― mark grout (mark grout), Wednesday, 24 November 2004 15:31 (twenty-one years ago)

Wagamama behind the British Museum was where my Mum took me once, but you'd have to be on coriander watch. Tim is a wise man - Lamb's Conduit Street has a lot of good things to offer.

― Madchen (Madchen), Wednesday, 24 November 2004 15:50 (twenty-one years ago)

I loved Wagamamma, I forget where its located (Baker St.?)

― Space Is the Place (Space Is the Place), Wednesday, 24 November 2004 15:53 (twenty-one years ago)

they are all over the place.

(sorry i have nothing else to suggest, although i imagine anna is on her way to meet her moomie now)

― CarsmileSteve (CarsmileSteve), Wednesday, 24 November 2004 15:54 (twenty-one years ago)

Exmouth Market, choices include:

Quality Chop House, fantastic british
Medcalf, Modern British
Eagle, gastro pub
Porchetta, Pizza

Also not far from the stations.

Paolina Thai on kings cross road, is an excellent thai greasy spoon.

― Ed (dali), Wednesday, 24 November 2004 15:57 (twenty-one years ago)

There are a few places on Charlotte Street - Bertorelli's is hit and miss though. Right near Russell Sq there's an arcade called Sicilian Avenue which has a handful of restaurants but I haven't been to any of them myself. It cuts the corner btw Southampton Row and Verulam Place. Or how about the restaurant at the top of the Reading Room at the British Museum? Are bento boxes your kind of thing?

― beanz (beanz), Wednesday, 24 November 2004 16:00 (twenty-one years ago)

Ed, what did you have that was worth eating from the Quality Chop House? I've been there twice (have therefore eaten four dishes) and have found it only barely satisfactory both times, including the worst onion soup I've ever eaten.

― Tim (Tim), Wednesday, 24 November 2004 16:28 (twenty-one years ago)

Salmon, fish cake, good sea bass, good liver and onions.

― Ed (dali), Wednesday, 24 November 2004 16:33 (twenty-one years ago)

i am looking forward to finding out where Anna ended up going!

― ken c (ken c), Wednesday, 24 November 2004 16:34 (twenty-one years ago)

me too!

― CarsmileSteve (CarsmileSteve), Wednesday, 24 November 2004 16:37 (twenty-one years ago)

Basically go to Lambs Conduit Street, there are four or five decent eateries there from pasta to The Perseverance (gastropub). Either that or New Culture Revolution for Chinese on Southampton Row.

I mean you can't go wrong with La Porchetta on Boswell Street (corner of Queen's Square) where I had my lunch today.

― Pete (Pete), Wednesday, 24 November 2004 17:26 (twenty-one years ago)

Probably too late now I read this. Sorry.

― Pete (Pete), Wednesday, 24 November 2004 17:28 (twenty-one years ago)

Do let us know how it turned out! :)

― Girolamo Savonarola, Wednesday, 24 November 2004 18:24 (twenty-one years ago)

yeah.

― mark grout (mark grout), Thursday, 25 November 2004 09:14 (twenty-one years ago)

I would have chosen Harry Ramsden's.

― Puddin'Head Miller (PJ Miller), Thursday, 25 November 2004 10:07 (twenty-one years ago)

weird story: I was partying and I let this guy write this really cool picture of some kind of animal on my forehead and I realized I had to brunch with my Mom in like less than 6 hours and I wanted to be as spiffy as possible, so I shower/scrub, no result on head, so I rifled through my friend's apt for any alcohol swabs/etc because the shit would just not come out, then he finally grudgingly let me use some of his hidden-in-corner-of-dresser bottle of ABSINTHE to get it out, it worked beautifully, I'm out the door, meet my mom early, and she's like, "Ugh, you absolutely STINK!"

Oh yeah, the absinthe. Sorry Mom.

― LeCoq (LeCoq), Thursday, 25 November 2004 10:57 (twenty-one years ago)

".. and you have a wombat on your head"

― mark grout (mark grout), Thursday, 25 November 2004 10:59 (twenty-one years ago)

How can Anna keep us in suspense so long, cruel thing?

― Madchen (Madchen), Thursday, 25 November 2004 13:25 (twenty-one years ago)

Because I have not been looking at the internet! (Shock and awe.)

We roamed around. We had a glass of wine in Gordon's, then we were walking back up to Covent Garden, maybe China Town and we went past Hamburger Union and both thought "ooh, high quality junk food" and went there. Someone I use to work with was on the next table. Then we walked up through Soho and ran into Mark C. So now my mum is convinced I know half of London, esp. as last time she was down we ran into Rob Bolton at Borough Market. Then we went fo coffee at Zilli, bought cheese in Fresh and Wild, looked round Liberty and I had a Christmas present dress bought for me in Top Shop. Ta da!

― Anna (Anna), Thursday, 25 November 2004 13:31 (twenty-one years ago)

aw that's nice. i was in gordon's on saturday, what an odd little place. the rosé from bangalore was very nice and crisp...

― CarsmileSteve (CarsmileSteve), Thursday, 25 November 2004 13:40 (twenty-one years ago)

Gordon's is a grate place, I was in there a couple of weeks ago. Also you feel like you're drinking in the cafe from Allo Allo and that the resistance are about to smuggle British soldiers through dressed as a horse.

― Matt DC (Matt DC), Thursday, 25 November 2004 13:46 (twenty-one years ago)

Umm, or something.

― Matt DC (Matt DC), Thursday, 25 November 2004 13:46 (twenty-one years ago)

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