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Ferry Boat Inn – down at the Walthamstow Wetlands

I still find it hard to believe that just one bus stop beyond Blackhorse Road or Tottenham Hale station is the Walthamstow Wetlands – Europe’s largest urban wildlife and wetland area, an amazing ‘get away’ to nature right on our … Continue reading

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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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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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The Culpeper – Spitalfields E1

Next to the magnificent Toynbee Hall, on a busy corner of Petticoat Lane and Commercial Street, The Culpeper is a recent refurbishment of an old East End Spitalfields boozer. It’s now a brasserie style gastropub with stripped back oak doors, … Continue reading

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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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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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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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Gastropub – The Clapton Hart, Clapton, E5

It’s Easter  – and it’s snowing! What is going on? We decided to set off for a walk across the marshes just to get out of the house. We explored through Winns Avenue, along Forest Road and down towards Tottenham Hale intent … Continue reading

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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

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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

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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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