London street food?

[The Gauge]

Anyone able to recommend areas in London with good street food please?

Im heading there by myself this weekend, will be visiting a few old & iconic pubs and generally just wandering about. Is Camden market good, and open Friday/Saturday?

Anywhere else worth going?

[Blib]

Camden Market will be open.

[DanL]

Isn’t the usual answer to this question Borough Market?

https://boroughmarket.org.uk/visit-us/

https://boroughmarket.org.uk/traders/?trader-cat=d...

Edited by DanL on Wednesday 25th October 17:47

[anonymous-user]

Leather Lane Market will be open om Friday and has a.decent selection.

[TEKNOPUG]

Strutton Ground Market

[Newc]

Duke of York Square, top end of the King's Road, does a good spread on a Saturday morning in the old barracks' green.

No shelter though so if it's wet it's a bit miserable.

[pidsy]

7 Dials food hall is worth a visit.

[GliderRider]

Once I saw this, the words 'street food' and 'pagpag' became inseparable.

[EmailAddress]

Bluequay said:

Leather Lane Market will be open on Friday and has a decent selection.

Gained a stone or two working off Holborn due to that place!

[CourtAgain]

You'll find out in six hours how good the food is in some places. There's a Jamaican Patty shop near Liverpool Street station who use "branding" on their food in the form of sugar paper containing their logo printed and stuck on the beef patty. I can still taste it now...

[22s]

Bluequay said:

Leather Lane Market will be open om Friday and has a.decent selection.

This is the best (but yes, go on Friday - it's shut Sat/Sun).

White Cross Mkt also good, but only weekdays as well.

Camden has a good selection

I'm personally not a fan of Borough Market. Good for (expensive) ingredients, but there are better places for street food. The food isn't bad, but it's really geared to tourists so expensive + not good portions.

Kerb outside the National Theatre (Waterloo) is there on Saturdays and has a decent array of stuff!

[Truckosaurus]

On weekends there's Maltby Street market over by Tower Bridge/Bermondsey.

Conveniently close to the 'beer mile' breweries if refreshing cold beverages are also on the cards.

[mikef]

As above, Whitecross Street (underground: Barbican or Old Street) or Leather Lane (underground: Farringdon or Chancery Lane), but only on weekdays not at weekend

Edited by mikef on Thursday 26th October 09:19

[seefarr]

Spitalfields Market has some amazing food stalls in the centre and outside down the lamb street side. They've got a bunch of decent market stalls for shopping as well.

Afterwards you can:

• Walk past (or not) the 10 Bells, one of Jack the Rippers hunting spots.
• Trundle down to Truman Brewery for more clothing markets or Brick Lane for random stuff.
• Finish with a well earned pint in one of the few East end boozers left around there, The Pride of Spitalfields. More Ripper links here with two suspects being regulars.
• If you're still thirsty, get lost in the alleys and walk to The Bell on Middlesex St. which has some great comedy taxidermy to snigger at (closed Sundays).

Sorry most of my tourism revolves around pub crawls!

[Cotty]

seefarr said:

Sorry most of my tourism revolves around pub crawls!

Near there is the Duke of Wellington and they have a great selection of lagers if thats your thing
12 Toynbee St, London E1 7NE
https://www.duke.london/gallery12toynbeest

[C5_Steve]

seefarr said:

Spitalfields Market has some amazing food stalls in the centre and outside down the lamb street side. They've got a bunch of decent market stalls for shopping as well.

Afterwards you can:

• Walk past (or not) the 10 Bells, one of Jack the Rippers hunting spots.
• Trundle down to Truman Brewery for more clothing markets or Brick Lane for random stuff.
• Finish with a well earned pint in one of the few East end boozers left around there, The Pride of Spitalfields. More Ripper links here with two suspects being regulars.
• If you're still thirsty, get lost in the alleys and walk to The Bell on Middlesex St. which has some great comedy taxidermy to snigger at (closed Sundays).

Sorry most of my tourism revolves around pub crawls!

Good shout, much prefer Spitalfields over Borough Market now. The surrounding area is also far more interesting now with loads of really good food places up and down the side roads around Shoreditch (although not strictly street food).

[The Gauge]

Some good suggestions thanks.

I'm creating an itinerary for Friday and Saturday, finishing on Saturday evening at Waterstones Piccadilly where I'm going to the Alan Partridge book signing which to be honest is the purpose of my visit. Expensive book!!

[Regbuser]

There's a passable bar on the second floor of Waterstones... Just in case !

[dontlookdown]

I think you've got all the best spots now. All I can add is another 'Don't go to Borough Market' voice. Overpriced, v busy and mostly about posh cheese and single origin olive oil at 30quid a bottle than street food.

Oh, just one more thought - a salt beef bagel from the 24hr place at the top of Brick Lane is never a bad choice. Nowhere to sit if that bothers you but utterly delicious.

[12TS]

dontlookdown said:

I think you've got all the best spots now. All I can add is another 'Don't go to Borough Market' voice. Overpriced, v busy and mostly about posh cheese and single origin olive oil at 30quid a bottle than street food.

Oh, just one more thought - a salt beef bagel from the 24hr place at the top of Brick Lane is never a bad choice. Nowhere to sit if that bothers you but utterly delicious.

Boundary gardens on Arnold’s circus has seats.