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221 Grove Road, Bow, London E3 5SN
yepmynameiswill
last updated on 24-01-2009:
I’d never been to a comedy club but for some reason I was thinking Jongleurs in Bow would be akin to.. Seinfeld? I couldn’t be more wrong.
You turn up at an area so fenced it would probably put a prison to shame and walk also a row of new build but derelict businesses to get to a large building at the end resembling a chain pub. You’re then ushered up a lot of stairs and into a function room.
Have you ever been to a wedding? Ever been to a really bad wedding? Ever been to a really bad wedding with bad food and drink? Hopefully you’re getting the picture here. Jongleurs in Bow is basically a function room with temporary chairs and tables vacated by people who really don’t get out much.
If you do go there, don’t eat. Please. Don’t order the food. It’s the lowest quality food you could ever imagine. Little Chef seems like paradise compared to what comes out of the fat fryers at this place.
Oh wait, I forgot to mention the comedy. That’s because there wasn’t any. Some men did get on stage but the only time I laughed was when I got out the place and realised the joke was on me. I don’t know who will ever read this but if you’re thinking of going here, find a crappy wedding to crash instead - you’ll have more fun.
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1-11 Ironmonger Row, London EC1V 3QF
yepmynameiswill
last updated on 07-01-2009:
I thought I would also add to all the reviews here that apart from being a leisure centre with turkish baths, this place also has a laundrette!
When my kitchen was being fitted, I had to come here with my dirty washing to get it all scrubbed up. The laundrette is just to the left of reception and has a number of large washing machines, dryers and 4 huge roller ironing machines. You have to pre-book your slot, which can be done online, and then pay at reception for a token.
While you wait, there is a TV (the reception was always pretty bad) or you can go and sample the delights of.. Old Street?
As Laundrettes go, this one is brilliant because a) it’s so large and b) they have the roller irons, which make ironing a breeze!
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98 Chapel Market, Islington, London N1
yepmynameiswill
last updated on 07-01-2009:
From what I can see, this is the third Scoff to open in or around London. Their motto is “real food fast” and their marketing and website focus on using British sourced products to create restaurant quality meals for you to eat at home.
I was tempted to order due to a £10 offer on the website’s blog but when I called they hadn’t heard of this offer so I had to direct them to where the offer on the site was. I always hate it when you have to tell a company about their own promotions.. it makes me feel like I am being extra cheap and feels embarrassing.
I ordered penne beef bolognese, 3 seasonal veg, chocolate brownie and a ciabatta roll. It took about 45 minutes to arrive, which was less than the hour they’d told me it would take. The delivery guy was perhaps the most polite I’d ever had - he even greeted me by my name, which was very novel but nice.
The food arrived in a large cardboard box with a handle, which was another impressive touch.
Sadly the food that arrived wasn’t quite what I’d ordered: tagliatelle rather than penne with my bolognese and 2 veg rather than 3. Generally speaking, the food was of good quality and I was particularly impressed by the hot crispy bread roll. The brownie seemed a little microwave scorched in the middle but was still very tasty and the bolognese wasn’t as flavoursome as I hoped but this was such a nice departure from Thai/Pizza/Indian that it wasn’t much of a hangup.
I will try them again and would recommend others to do so too!
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58 Old Street, London EC1V 9AJ
yepmynameiswill
last updated on 14-12-2008:
This soho institution, home to mother of all modern fashionista clubs, NagNagNag, recently made the move to Old Street.
We visited on a Saturday night and the place is definitely suffering from teething troubles. Previously Play, Ghetto uses both floors as a club cum bar but the layout is pretty flawed. Basically the entrance which is no bigger than a metre squared serves as an admission booth, a queue to go outside for smokers, the exit and the only way to navigate from upstairs to downstairs. Because of the residential location, security work hard to make sure there are only a few people outside smoking and that the internal and external doors aren’t both open at the same time to prevent noise escaping. So the moment you try and enter (once security are sure the internal door isn’t going to be open to let the sound from the club out) you hit chaos.
The wonderful thing about this place is that the staff are all so patient and nice - if I was working in this sort of chaos there is no way I could be like them. It’s because of their attitude alone that I didn’t leave in a bad mood.
So a cold winter night, we arrived with thick coats and needed to put them away but… the coat check couldn’t accommodate all the coats so there was no option but to continue wearing our coats or hold them! Argh!
We left pretty quickly. I don’t want to give this place too much of a negative wrap as it is just it’s first week and they will inevitably have a lot of teething troubles but it feels like they’ve gone from a spacious roomy venue into somewhere much smaller and less well designed.
If you go, arrive early!
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7a Artillery Passage, London E1 7LJ
yepmynameiswill
last updated on 03-11-2008:
I’ve been here a few times at lunch and am slightly surprised by the first comment.
Being a few minutes from Liverpool Street station means there is no shortage of hungry people at lunchtime - the queues in most of the cafes, shops and restaurants at lunchtime are testament to this. The odd thing is that Habibi is never busy, it’s always a bit quiet. I wondered why so I paid a couple of visits.
There is a wide selection of sushi available to eat in or take away. The thing is, the place doesn’t feel as clean as it should be. The lids covering the sushi often seems a little… musty and if an item is too large for the plate (typically the stuff on skewers) it drags across the display of soft drinks in the middle (check out all the missing pain on the cans!)
To add to this general feeling of uncleanliness, there were a lot of little flies in the restaurant which would occasionally land on the uncovered plates on the conveyor belt. It seems the electric fly catcher, situated right next to the Miso soup pot, isn’t doing its job well enough.
Given the place has been so quiet on my few visits, the staff weren’t really that attentive and you had to shout to get their attention.
I did notice that a few people came in for takeaways during my lunches. I felt a bit sorry for them, as during my second visit the chef was taking unsold sushi from the plates and boxing this up for takeaway.
It could well be that both my visits were uncharacteristic and believe me, in a world of homogenised dining brands such as Yo!, I strongly want to support the independent restaurateur, but I think they need to smarten their act if I’m to ever consider going back.
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