Any good BBQ in London?

[Armybrat 40464]

Leaving on a jet plane for Heathrow soon.

After sampling their English fare of meat pies, fish & chips, weird sausages, & the like, I'll be ready for a familiar fix. Any suggestions? (no MickeyD jokes please)

Same for Paris - am not a fan of snails, fungus, frog legs, & horse meat.

 

[midtown 3334]

Just drink instead

[Hawndoh 2326]

haha, good luck with that.

[midtown 3334]

London has great ethnic food.  

[Armybrat 40464]

11 minutes ago, midtown said:

Just drink instead

Part of the plan, most likely.

[Armybrat 40464]

8 minutes ago, midtown said:

London has great ethnic food.  

TexMex?

Awesome!

[mdmost 42167]

[Onboard 2.0 9083]

Good god, the best food in the world is in Paris and you don't like any of it ?  Snails, beef Tartar, Pot roast, they call it something else, but its pot roast.

 

BBQ in London ?  Just get a steak, and be done with it.....

[staboner 4938]

Paris is truly one of the best food cities in the world, you just need to watch out for the shitloads of tourist places serving up lazy fare. walk the neighborhoods a bit and hit up the smaller back alley places with like 5 tables. some of the best eating ever. 

also what the last two posters said

except don't get beef in London. 

[TornACL 7652]

What the fuck, this better be a troll post.

In Paris, even if you eat like a 6 year old, get crepes and baquettes and eclairs. Not mother fucking BBQ. Don't be an American stereotype.

Even if you think you don't like Indian food, do yourself a favor and find a good Indian restaurant in London. I never appreciated it until I went there, and now I love it.

[midtown 3334]

14 minutes ago, TornACL said:

do yourself a favor and find a good Indian restaurant in London

Yup.  Go to Punjab.  Best indian food I've every had

Edited July 26, 2018 by midtown

[mdmost 42167]

I know when I go to a foreign country that it's much better to eschew the local fare that I can't normally get in favor of inferior recreations of food I can readily get at home.

Edited July 26, 2018 by mdmost

[luke duke 6359]

[Onboard 2.0 9083]

29 minutes ago, staboner said:

Paris is truly one of the best food cities in the world, you just need to watch out for the shitloads of tourist places serving up lazy fare. walk the neighborhoods a bit and hit up the smaller back alley places with like 5 tables. some of the best eating ever. 

also what the last two posters said

except don't get beef in London. 

They don't do good steaks in London town ?  Haven't been to London yet so I figured that was a safe bet.

One of the best steaks I've ever eaten anywhere in the world was in Dublin, Ireland a couple years ago.

[jimmyjazz 45055]

There's no point in getting BBQ or Mexican in London.  As others have said, London's Indian cuisine absolutely rocks.  I've had good Persian and Greek dishes there, too.  Not so much Italian, but I'm sure you could find it.

If you're not really into some of the more adventurous French food, it doesn't mean you have to eat like a complete tourist there.  Get a good steak frites, for one.  Lamb, braised dishes like Coq au Vin, etc. are all tremendous.  And, as suggested, you could stuff yourself with crepes, pastries and table wine and be completely satisfied.  Just don't expect good versions of American regional fare.

[CooterBrown 17695]

Supposedly there’s a legit bbq place in Paris. The guy worked under Franklin for a year. Can’t vouch for it personally.

There’s a place in London that does a Sunday roast burrito.

[lateshow 1303]

You don't like frog legs? Must suck to never leave the city.

[midtown 3334]

Don't be afraid to eat in the pubs.  The food is legit.  It's not always bar food like in the US.    Some of the best Thai food I've had was at a pub in London.

[gecko 1104]

Try TGIFridays in Covent Gardens.....

...is there a "barf" emoji?

[TornACL 7652]

Go to the Latin Quarter in Paris and swing into Le Relais de L’Entrecote (google it). Steak Frites, you're not testing your palate at all. But it's a great atmosphere in there and really felt like a local Parisian joint. Get a bottle of wine. If I remember, there's only one thing on the menu so if you don't parlez vous you should still get through the meal ok without getting your food spit on. Stupid American.

[Sam Lin 3532]

Need to reserve ahead now, we couldn't get in as walk-ins twice during my last visit.

[midtown 3334]

Btw.  Europe is only a 1/4 of the way around the world so please rotate your camera 90 degrees. 

[irishtexan 11413]

Jambon Beurre all day every day

[Armybrat 40464]

Some of you guys let it go right over your heads. Was kidding abut the BBQ & TexMex.

Thanks to the others for the hints. Yes, we'll be doing some pub food. Our Brit friends who are driving us around know both towns well and will keep us away from the typical tourist traps. Both are foodies.

[52-80 18962]

34 minutes ago, TornACL said:

Go to the Latin Quarter in Paris and swing into Le Relais de L’Entrecote (google it). Steak Frites, you're not testing your palate at all. But it's a great atmosphere in there and really felt like a local Parisian joint. Get a bottle of wine. If I remember, there's only one thing on the menu so if you don't parlez vous you should still get through the meal ok without getting your food spit on. Stupid American.

Visited this place a few weeks ago but at the Arc Triomphe branch.  Perfect weather for sitting on the sidewalk.  No reservations so if you don't beat the business lunch crowd there might be a queue. 

 

No menus at all - everyone gets nice salad, steak, fries, and they come around with unlimited refills (even on steak) if you've got the room.

 

Good food - not great.  IMO Paris is an incredibly overrated food City.  Aside from the high end places, there are thousands of absolutely mediocre places, given the prices.  So if you find a place like this it's worth the stop.

 

[Ollie Slatt 289]

I will admit to having eaten bbq in London on multiple occasions while studying abroad . . . there used to be a KC style bbq place where expats would congregate to watch college football.  Not something I would do if visiting though.  On future trips to London I plan to just eat Indian food at every opportunity.    

[TornACL 7652]

8 minutes ago, 52-80 said:

Visited this place a few weeks ago but at the Arc Triomphe branch.  Perfect weather for sitting on the sidewalk.  No reservations so if you don't beat the business lunch crowd there might be a queue. 

 

No menus at all - everyone gets nice salad, steak, fries, and they come around with unlimited refills (even on steak) if you've got the room.

 

Good food - not great.  IMO Paris is an incredibly overrated food City.  Aside from the high end places, there are thousands of absolutely mediocre places, given the prices.  So if you find a place like this it's worth the stop.

 

To be honest I could spend a week in Paris and eat at nothing but the bakeries and patisseries.  I agree there are a million tourist traps (especially around the tourist spots, obviously), but you can do pretty well, both in quality and cost (and friendliness) once you get away from the bullshit and find neighborhood joints. But that's basically true about any huge walkable city.

[gsoda3 3187]

1 hour ago, staboner said:

Paris is truly one of the best food cities in the world, you just need to watch out for the shitloads of tourist places serving up lazy fare. walk the neighborhoods a bit and hit up the smaller back alley places with like 5 tables. some of the best eating ever. 

also what the last two posters said

except don't get beef in London. 

... sunday roasts.  but make reservations. 

 

london has an abundance of good italian bistros.  also, surprisingly, over the past 5-10 years their burger game's really stepped up.  

[utee94 15671]

I ate Tex-Mex in France once. I'd been there several months and was dying for some.  Never.  Again.

However I had some delicious interior Mexican in Belgium, so there's that.

In France, if you don't want to be adventurous, the braised dishes are great.  Coq au vin.  Beef bourgoignon.  I also love rabbit stew.

But army, it sounds like your friends are going to be the best guides, I'm sure they won't steer you wrong.

 

[Armybrat 40464]

Only thing I'm really worried about is our house sitter discovering the last dozen cooked & frozen Del Rio Tortilla factory tamales hidden in the back of the freezer. After a Whataburger Sweet & Spicy, that's supposed to be our 1st dinner when we return home.

Edited July 26, 2018 by Armybrat

[Wally Pryor 5198]

+1 on the Indian food in London.   Fucking fantastic. 

[jimmyjazz 45055]

Best food I had in Paris was quite literally a crepe from a kiosk right around midnight after a fair amount of local wine.  That city . . . at night . . . yeesh, it's amazing.

[rewdog10 0]

Too bad the Texas Embassy closed a few years ago.

[RDCanecutter 25767]

Whatever you do, remember that Londoners are foreigners so you're going to want to yell so they understand.

[Ollie Slatt 289]

1 hour ago, rewdog10 said:

Too bad the Texas Embassy closed a few years ago.

twas an abomination for sure

[Surly Bevo 24247]

For lunch/brunch yourself a nice little place in Paris and try their Croque Monsieur or Croque Madame (however much an egg floats your boat)

[dcbc 14179]

7 hours ago, jimmyjazz said:

As others have said, London's Indian cuisine absolutely rocks

This times whatever.  Eat Indian; eat often.

[gecko 1104]

The  "scenery" at Balthazar in London on my visit last month was exceptional...

[After irth 1240]

Blues Kitchen in Camden (other locations as well). Legit food. Brown liquor out the wazoo...

https://theblueskitchen.com/camden/

[Steel Shank 9325]

Be sure and lay an international pipeline.

[EE2B 1560]

Be sure and lay an international pipeline.

At Brat’s age, it would be an international rope.

[Chopper 15889]

I lived in London for a couple years and was constantly on the hunt for a good burger or bbq. Other than perhaps an expensive steak the best beef I had in London was on Brick Lane in Shoreditch at the beigel shops, where they serve salt beef (aka corn beef) on fresh bagels 24x7. There's two places and they're both total dives. The beigel shops are holdovers from when this was the jewish part of town.