London Buffet Pig request.

[RDMcG]

My mother in law is a major buffet snuffler. She loves the things. No fine dining for her. For her 75th birthday we are sending her for a week to London. She loves general buffets, Chinese buffets and that sort of thing. We have booked her into a hotel in Grosvenor Square, (buffet breakfast included),but she will want to find some kind of general purpose industrial buffets that she can graze in. So, no Fat Duck or Gordon Ramsay.....

Any ideas???...(she will not do Indian, but Italian, Chinese,Korean or general western would be fine...

I only get to London the odd time, though I lived there years ago.

[jardinec]

I cannot help you with this request, but an excellent post all the same

'buffet snuffler' hehe

[Mobile Chicane]

Londoners don't really do 'buffets'. I think she'd be better off in the North, or on a cruise.

[RDMcG]

Mobile Chicane said:

Londoners don't really do 'buffets'. I think she'd be better off in the North, or on a cruise.

I was afraid of that........

[threesixty]

Send her to St John for the whole roast suckling pig, feeds 15, should probably keep her busy;)

[shakotan]

Goodge Street/Tottenham Court Road has plenty of Chinese and Thai buffet places, I think you'll struggle for Western-style buffet though.

[ascayman]

plenty of fabulous restaurants to 'taster menus' how about that as a compromise?

that way she can eat in a proper restaurant and still stiff her face?

[RDMcG]

ascayman said:

plenty of fabulous restaurants to 'taster menus' how about that as a compromise?

that way she can eat in a proper restaurant and still stiff her face?

Well, by her own definition she would like large quantities of cheap food, (She has the thin gene so does not waddle into the place, but she has a capacity for gristle,chicken feet,lamb shops or any meat on the bone). No fish,salads,or veggies.
Massive ex smoker, never exercised, and not a single health problem. If I could clone the woman's genes I would be rich.

The tip on Goodge Street/Tottenham Court Road is helpful..thks. We are sending her over on the QM2 from NY, so she might just be buffeted out, but I would not bet on it.

[whitechief]

She could try here.

http://www.kitchin-n1.com/

[Plotloss]

Do you refer to her as 'Vampire'?

(The Buffet Slayer)

[RDMcG]

Plotloss said:

Do you refer to her as 'Vampire'?

(The Buffet Slayer)

Now in my lexicon!..outstanding

[Mobile Chicane]

RDMcG said:

ascayman said:

plenty of fabulous restaurants to 'taster menus' how about that as a compromise?

that way she can eat in a proper restaurant and still stiff her face?

Well, by her own definition she would like large quantities of cheap food, (She has the thin gene so does not waddle into the place, but she has a capacity for gristle,chicken feet,lamb shops or any meat on the bone). No fish,salads,or veggies.
Massive ex smoker, never exercised, and not a single health problem. If I could clone the woman's genes I would be rich.

The tip on Goodge Street/Tottenham Court Road is helpful..thks. We are sending her over on the QM2 from NY, so she might just be buffeted out, but I would not bet on it.

In which case, advise her to eat as much as she can while on board ship - the US-style mounds of cheap food don't exist here.

If she likes meat send her to Borough Market, where there are lots of things to try from the various food stalls. It won't be particularly cheap though

[Plotloss]

Mobile Chicane said:

the US-style mounds of cheap food don't exist here.

Oh they do, there is one in Slough and one in Windsor.

I just cant think of anywhere in town.

[RDMcG]

Plotloss said:

Mobile Chicane said:

the US-style mounds of cheap food don't exist here.

Oh they do, there is one in Slough and one in Windsor.

I just cant think of anywhere in town.

I have never come across anything either in my visits to London. She will do Chinese buffets without a doubt. Might be an interesting exercise for the hotel concierge. I expect it would not be an unusual request from Americans.

Edited by RDMcG on Monday 8th June 16:10

[Plotloss]

Throw in a car to take her to Windsor, quick wander around the Castle (which wasnt built too close to the airport) and then get the driver to pick her up from the Yangtze!

[Wadeski]

the chinese buffets are pretty appalling...

however, what about dim sum from a trolley? you just pick off what you like. I'm pretty sure some of the chinatown dimsum places still run that way.

to be honest, if you just take her to a decent Chinese resaurant you can order enough to feed an army and still happily walk away with change from £30 per person.

London Hong Kong right next to Heathrow is very good, as is Phoenix Palance in Baker St...Oriental City food court would have been right up her street but it closed last year, more's the pity.

[Wadeski]

oh wait, also, there is an Eat As Much As You Can sushi place just south of Tottenham Court Road...I think its £25.

[Papoo]

Wadeski said:

oh wait, also, there is an Eat As Much As You Can sushi place just south of Tottenham Court Road...I think its £25.

Dicing with death, surely? Still, could successfully ween her off 'buffet snuffling'...

[RDMcG]

Papoo said:

Wadeski said:

oh wait, also, there is an Eat As Much As You Can sushi place just south of Tottenham Court Road...I think its £25.

Dicing with death, surely? Still, could successfully ween her off 'buffet snuffling'...

She could have a feed of grilled eColi without any impact. No sushi, sadly..not enough fat and gristle to do the job.

[littlegreenfairy]

For the ultimate chinese experience - the Paper OnionTiger.

Just across the road from the Natural History museum, on the left hand side before you hit the pancake place with the tube station right in front of you.

It was a mecca for students.