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Category Archives: Restaurants in E17
Doffles! – SpiceBox Weekend Brunch
Indian breakfasts are a thing of beauty – spicy, rich and delicious, a perfect start to a lazy weekend, or cure for a hangover. Traditionally along with curries and dhal there’s steamed rice idlis, dosa pancakes, puris and parathas filled … Continue reading
Beautiful Burgers and Brilliant Beers … yummm!
We’ve been waiting eagerly for the opening of The Collab. Ever since Grillstock, Yum Yum Thai and Ekco cocktail bar departed last year, that bit of Hoe Street, E17 has been looking particularly depleted. So the collaboration of local craft … Continue reading
The Village pub – all refurbished and looking good
This week we were invited to try out the new menu at The Village pub on Orford Road in Walthamstow village. It’s a few years since we’ve been in there. The pub was recently closed for three weeks for a big refurbishment … Continue reading
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Spice Box – vegan curry heaven
Last week we were invited to try out the new SpiceBox 100% vegan curry house in Hoe Street, Walthamstow. After visiting the previous owner’s burrito take-away shop, we were amazed at the transformation of such a tiny space. Spice Box owner, Grace Regan, has … Continue reading
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Tagged Chik'n Korma, Curry, Curry House, Eat Spice Box, Grace Regan, hornbeam cafe, Jackfruit Jalfrezi, Spice Box, Tiffin Tin, vegan, Vegan Curry House
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Behind the scenes at Spice Box Walthamstow
It’s well known that SpiceBox will be bringing their first Vegan Curry House to Hoe Street, Walthamstow next month (January 2019). Following a successful run on the festival and street food circuit with KERB, and a popular extended pop-up at the … Continue reading
Brunch at the Spice Box – Hornbeam Cafe pop-up
We love Indian breakfasts. Occasionally we head to Ilford on a Saturday morning to satisfy a craving for a whole host of delights – steamed idli rice cakes, delicate dosa pancakes, puffed-up puris and parathas stuffed with spices, potatoes and … Continue reading
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Tagged Brunch, Doffle, hornbeam cafe, Indian breakfast, masala chai, Spice Box, vegan
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New Turkish restaurant: Wood Oven BBQ – Hoe Street, Walthamstow
The stretch of Hoe Street between Walthamstow Central station and Queen’s Road seems to be having a revival. First came the Chinese Uyghur noodles place; followed by coffee and waffle shop Bru, and then Indian teashop Chaiiwala. Finally last week … Continue reading
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Tagged BBQ, hoe street, Ocakbasi, Turkish restaurant, Walthamstow, Wood Oven BBQ
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A new food experience – Etles Uyghur Restaurant
We’re always up for trying something new, and Etles Uyghur Restaurant is definitely that. Recently opened in the former Ming Chinese restaurant on Hoe Street, close to Walthamstow Central station, this is one of the first Uyghur (or Uighur) restaurants in London. … Continue reading
Posted in Foodie Travels, Restaurants in E17
Tagged Chinese Restaurant, Etles, Lagman, Leghmen, Ming Chinese restaurant, Noodles, Silk Road, Uighur, Uyghur, Xinjiang
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The Big Pink Pizza Oven – a sneaky peek at Yard Sale Pizza, Walthamstow
This week we were invited to the press preview night of Yard Sale Pizza’s new adventure in Walthamstow. Like nosy neighbours, we’ve been peeking in through the windows of the Old Glass Factory on Hoe Street for a few … Continue reading
Taste of Sichuan, Walthamstow
Following various fiery experiences at London Sichuan restaurants including ‘My Old Place’ and ‘Sichuan Folk’ in Spitalfields, this peppery Chinese cooking was a cuisine I wanted to explore but was slightly scared of. A few months ago, Taste of Sichuan moved into … Continue reading
Behind the scenes at Yard Sale Pizza Walthamstow
It’s probably quite well known that Clapton’s Yard Sale are bringing their artisan pizzas to Hoe Street, Walthamstow next month (February 2017). They already have two other branches and were the winner of Time Out’s ‘Most Loved Restaurant’ in the … Continue reading
A night of Mirth! (Marvel & Maud)
After a recent review in Time Out, and one year after their pop-up opening nights in December 2015, it’s time to post about Mirth, Marvel & Maud – for any non-locals, this is a renovated old 1930’s cinema in the heart of Walthamstow. … Continue reading
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Tagged e17, marvel, maud, Mirth, music, old emd cinema, restaurant, theatre
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A whirlwind of restaurants
Recently life has felt like being caught-up in a whirlwind – we’ve been battered and blown along, and in the process eaten out far too many times, breakfast, lunch and dinner. So here’s a quick snapshot from our tour … Continue reading
Wok a week! A visit to Hoo Hing & new cookbook from Ching-He Huang
It’s been a funny old week with a Chinese theme. It started with a Stow-at-home day on Tuesday when we decided to try out the restaurant in the Hoo Hing Chinese supermarket hidden on a trading estate in Leyton. Maybe … Continue reading
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Tagged Chinese supermarket, Ching-He Huang, Hoo Hing, Tofu & Kale stir fry
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Sodo Pizza Cafe E17
We usually wait until a new restaurant has gone through their teething problems before we step over their newly polished door step. But we threw out the rule book when it came to Sodo Pizza Cafe who opened on Friday, … Continue reading
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Tagged Hatherley Mews, pizza, Sodo pizza cafe, Sourdough, Walthamstow
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Yakamoz, new Turkish restaurant, E17
***UPDATE – NOW CLOSED: MARCH 2017*** Yakamoz is a Turkish word with no English equivalent, meaning something like ‘the reflection of the moon on water, the ocean or the sea’ and was once voted the most beautiful word in the … Continue reading
Grillstock Festival E17
We were gutted to miss the Grillstock festival, but a hol in Tenerife compensated well! So we sent along our guest foodie writer Raz Ahasan who describes himself as ‘friend of the foodies & native east Londoner, enjoying what’s to … Continue reading
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Tagged BBQ and music festival, Grillstock, Grillstock Festival
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Best Sunday Lunch – our favourite places in and around E17
A classic British Sunday roast is one of our favourite meals of the week – it’s comforting and satisfying and marks out the weekend as special. And this must be a shared passion as it’s such a frequent search on … Continue reading
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Tagged Beef, Eat17, hornbeam cafe, Marmelo Kitchen, Mussel Men, roast, rose and crown pub, Sunday, Sunday roast, The Bell, The Castle, Walthamstow
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Fancy a burger?
A good burger has to be a lip-smacking, sticky fingered, messy-plated feast. If you’re not wearing it, you’re not enjoying it. So we had a good time pulling together this post – it wasn’t a hardship! We’ve listed our favourites, … Continue reading
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Tagged Burgers E10, Burgers E17, Eat 17, Le Delice, Proper Burger, The Bell, The Castle, Turtle Bay
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Village Kitchen Restaurant, E17
Do you have days in the week that if you don’t prepare ahead for, you’ll never eat? Well Wednesday and Thursday are those days for us. We often have something quick late at night, but if we are ahead of … Continue reading
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Tagged Sunday Lunch, Sunday roast, The village e17, Village Kitchen, VK, Walthamstow
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Turtle Bay – Walthamstow
Turtle Bay, is the newly opened Caribbean restaurant and bar loudly dominating the corner site of The Scene cinema complex, at the top of Walthamstow’s High Street. Interestingly the owner of Turtle Bay is Ajith Jayawickrema, also the founder of … Continue reading
Pizza Express – Walthamstow
We’ve watched ‘The Scene’ cinema complex develop over the past 15 years on the corner of High Street and Hoe Street, Walthamstow. A WW2 flying bomb first cleared the area in 1944, then the derelict 1960’s concrete arcade was demolished … Continue reading
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Tagged Mare Rosa pizza, Peppes Pizza, Pizza Express, Pizza Express Walthamstow, Sodo
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Tassili – Algerian cafe on Hoe Street
*Revision – Tassili was awarded a one star score by the Food Standards Agency in November 2014, previously when we visited they had a three score. Original post below. It’s not a glamorous location – sandwiched between a barbers and … Continue reading
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Tagged Algerian cafe, hoe street, Tassili
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Coffee & cakes in E17
We have our old-favourite coffee shops, the new ones that we just love and those that we just occasionally pop into for a quick takeaway coffee before jumping on the tube. So after lots of difficult reseach & tasting, we … Continue reading
Posted in Cafes, Restaurants in E17, Shopping in E17, Takeaways
Tagged 56 St James, almond eclairs, Auro Rosa cakes, bakery, baklava, Bygga Bo, Cafe Bonito, cakes, cappuccino, churros, coffee, deja vu, deli, e17, Gözleme, Golden Rustic Deli, L'Hirondelle, Le Delice, macaroons, Mother's Ruin Gin Factory, Niyazi Usta, Oasis, pretzels, Tierra Madre, Walthamstow, Windmill
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Bygga Bo – Scandinavian cafe
We love Bygga Bo (meaning ‘to make a nest’) – how did we live without it? We waited months for it to open, and when it did we were there! It’s in an old hairdresser’s shop just near The Bell. The décor … Continue reading
56 St James – lovely new coffee shop, E17
We were slightly annoyed that a new cafe has just opened in the St James’ area of Walthamstow. Why? Well we lived just a stone throw away for thirteen years and now just when we have moved out, they move … Continue reading
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Tagged 56 cafe, 56 St James, coffee, flat white, Walthamstow cafe
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Sunday Roast in and around the Stow
We’ve been eating our way around the Stow’s Sunday Roasts and writing about them in this evolving post. It’s a tough mission, but someone’s gotta’ do it! One reason for this is that ‘best Sunday Roast’ is such a frequent … Continue reading
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Tagged Beef, Clapton Hart, Cooking, Eat17, Hare & Hounds, Princess of Wales, roast, Sunday, Sunday roast, The Bell, The Castle, Venison, Walthamstow, Warrant Officer
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A little local knowledge goes a long way – Quattro Stagioni
Local knowledge is an amazing thing – at our Big lunch street party back in June we were privileged with a local secret – take-away pizza shop is ‘good for grills’. On Sunday, tired out after a long drive back … Continue reading
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Tagged cheap, e17, Forest Road, Kofte kebab, Liver kebab, pizza, Quattro stagioni, Take - away, Walthamstow
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The Chequers under new management
Well it has all been rather dramatic, sudden and a cut-throat business in the E17 pub world this week. Our lovely local pub on the high street,The Chequers, recently refurbished and managed by Antic Ltd over the last six months, … Continue reading
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Tagged Antic, awesomestow, Chequers, e17, gastro pub, Gastropub, pub food, The Chequers, Walthamstow
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Sunday lunch at The Bell
Last Sunday when the sun was shining we decided to treat ourselves to a well-deserved Sunday roast so headed to The Bell. We wrote a review of this pub back in the autumn when they first launched. You can’t reserve … Continue reading
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Tagged Bell, e17, roasties, roasts, Sunday, Sunday roast, The Bell, Walthamstow
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Our 1st Supperclub as part of the Appetite food festival 2013
There have been two momentous occasions this week for the Walthamstowfoodies. This is our 100th post; and we’ve survived the first of our Appetite 2013 food festival Supperclubs, so we thought we’d update on how we got on. The day … Continue reading
Cafe Bonito – beyond the hot chocolate!
A trip to the now trendy Wood Street is a regular Saturday event for us. We love the indoor market – packed with local creatives selling a range of second hand books, records, vintage clothes, jewellery and antique/retro furniture. But … Continue reading
Amazing hot salt beef brunch
We woke up super-early this morning – no sunday lie-in for us! By 8am a pork shoulder was dressed and having a lovely tanning session in the slow cooker, the coffee beans were ground and an 8-cup cafetiere was put … Continue reading
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Tagged Beef, Breakfast, Brunch, Copperfield Cafe, Hot salt beef, Salt beef salad
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Easter Sunday roast at The Chequers, E17
We’ve reviewed the Red Lion and the Clapton Hart only a few days ago, all run by the Antic group so it was only fair that we gave their E17 new kid, The Chequers a visit for Sunday lunch. We wrote about … Continue reading
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Tagged Antic, Easter, Gastropub, Sunday roast, The Chequers E17, The Chequers pub
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Food at The Bell, E17
We have waited, nagged, watched and waited some more and finally The Bell is serving food from today and we were there for their first night! Our food wasn’t without inaugural hiccups, but we were impressed with the quality of the products … Continue reading
The Chequers E17 – looks like they made it!
We’ve been eagerly waiting for the re-opening of The Chequers – a pub with history on the Walthamstow High Street. Since Kitty, the Thai chef and the crew behind the bar departed it’s been a waiting game to see what … Continue reading
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Tagged Antic, E17 pub, Picpoul de Pinet, Real ale, The Chequers E17
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Walthamstowfoodies on the move (or Stow in the Snow)
Well, only we would end up moving house in the middle of a January snow blizzard! It was beautiful, but not fun. Shovelling snow so we could unload our removal van wasn’t how I had envisaged our arrival at our … Continue reading
East African food affair
About ten years ago we went to Zigni House restaurant following a Timeout magazine recommendation, never having tried East African food before. Spicy, unheard of exotic dishes were scooped up with the staple injera bread with its soft, spongy texture … Continue reading
Posted in Recipes, Restaurants beyond E17, Restaurants in E17
Tagged Dhal, East Africa, Eritrean, Ethiopian, Injera, Kik Alicha, Kitfo, Soups and Stews, Yellow split pea
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Sunday roast at the Red Lion – Leytonstone
For a treat we went for Sunday roast at the Red Lion, we’d been in all weekend as one of the foodies had a slight run in with a bath mat resulting in a trip to Whipps Cross A&E and a … Continue reading
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Tagged Chequers, Leytonstone, Red Lion, roast beef, Sunday roast, Walthamstow
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Where is Kitty? Missing the Thai food at the now closed Chequers pub
We were regulars at The Chequers pub for years; ever since one cold Saturday the hungry foodies dropped in for Thai food while out shopping on Walthamstow market. It was way beyond our expectations – fresh, spicy and delicious dishes … Continue reading
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Tagged Gastropub, Phad Thai, Thai cuisine, The Chequers pub, Walthamstow
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Leyton Technical Pop-up Pub
We’ve not been to Leyton for a while but we heard it had been spruced up and a pop-up pub for the games was now open. So we set off with a pint promised at the end of our journey. … Continue reading
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Tagged Antic, Leyton, Leyton Technical, Pop-Up Pub
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Global Feast 2012
Our blog is very new and we are learning to find our voice and master the techie stuff as we go, so when I went to the Global Feast I jumped at the chance of speaking to the founding queen of … Continue reading
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Tagged Global Feast 2012, Ms MarmiteLover, Sabrina Ghayour, Sally Butcher
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Lovely coffee
I must admit that I really like good coffee. I’ve often ordered it online from Grumpy Mule but now they sell in wholefoods so I’m a happy bunny. When I first moved to Walthamstow it was difficult to get a … Continue reading
Sizzling Tandoori Mixed Grill
Update – Restaurant now closed/Feb 2013 The Olympics are only a few days away. I must admit that I’m not quite sure what to expect – will I be able to get to work? Will the tube be pushed to … Continue reading
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Tagged chennai spice, e17, restaurants, tandoori mixed platter, Tayyabs, Walthamstow
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