This is an online store selling cookies, ice cream, other desserts and some dishes with fresh fruit. They also sell hot and cold drinks.
They deliver until 1 in the morning and the website is http://www.midnightcookies.com.
Thanks to Caty Colman for alerting us to this in her facebook status.
A few people are trying these and I will let you know if the store is as good as it’s made out to be.
The Oxford this pub is near Kentish Town underground station. Exit the station, turn left and it is the first pub you come to about 100 yards away.
This pub has a website which is:
http://www.theoxfordnw5.co.uk/
There is a link for food but not drink. When I visited this pub about a week ago there was the choice of 2 beers from the St Austell brewery called Proper Job and Tribute. Proper Job is a really nice hoppy beer and I am pleased to say it was kept very well.
The food is a bit along the lines of a typical gastro pub where for example you get hand cut chips (not including part of the hand, hopefully ) Pan fried Pork and various meats in Jus, what happened to Gravy? I actually had the steak sandwich with hand cut chips which was quite large. The steak was particularly tender and indeed the chips were home made. That meal came to £8.00 which is not too bad. Other main meals at lunch time include rib eye steak and chips which costs about £16. Most dishes are round about £10. There’s more to choose from at night but the prices go up!
As gastro pubs go the Oxford is definitely one of the better ones. Staff were very helpful and they read the menu out to me willingly.
Over all I give this pub 7 out of ten. Portions were generous and helpful but I have a pet hate of pubs such as the Oxford that describes itself as the Oxford Pub and Dining room. It’s really a restaurant that sells real ale of which I’m in favour but don’t pretend it’s a pub!
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Byrons is a chain of burger restaurants located in Central London and the west end.
I was looking for somewhere to eat in the Kensington area and checked this place out as I assumed the prices would be reasonable as this is just a burger place after all. It is a posh McDonalds.
For what it is, the prices are staggering in my view. This is listed in the Time Out magazine cheap eat section but I don’t think it belongs here. There are a few places in that guide that are cheap compared to a posh restaurant but not at all cheap for what they are and Byrons is an example of this. More information including the locations of the 7 restaurants in the chain and the menu can be found at:
http://www.byronhamburgers.com
When I visited I had the 6 ounce classic burger which costs £6.25 on its own. This is quite a lot to pay for a basic burger. The quality of the burger was good. The meat was not too dry. The salad was lettuce, onion and tomato with a little mayo. The pickle was just a gherkin on the side of the plate. This was perfectly acceptable though the price was a pound or 2 over the odds but quality was well above average. Its the side orders and some of the drinks that really crank up the price. I had a Cream Soda which cost £2.75 and was just a standard can that you could get for 60 pence or so in a sweet shop. I got caught out by that and decided not to go for any other side orders. Chips were £3.00 and fries were £2.75 which is robbery in my opinion. Someone heard me asking about the courgette fries and offered me one to try. Thanks for that! These were just courgettes fried in breadcrumbs. They had no flavour at all. Definitely glad I did not buy them. In the end I went to Starbucks which may feature in a future post despite it being a chain.
Over all I can’t complain about the quality of the food but its far too expensive. It Byrons is also licensed to sell alcohol and this may help push up the price.Staff were generally helpful and they were prepared to read all the menu to me.
Price is really what drags my mark down here and despite the much better than average burger I can only give Byrons 6 out of 10.
on Sunday I said good bye to my laptop and met my friend that I passed it on to along with her friend with whom she was staying. The Oval Lounge is quite a trendy bar restaurant that serves a wide range of bottled beers and some on draft though I was on coffee after a gentle beer or so the night before! I am glad to say that the coffee was of decent quality.
This pub sells a decent range of food that I would describe as modern British which means British with a silly twist such as crispy leeks which means they can bang up the price!
The food in this bar is not cheap. Roast lamb with the trimmings cost just over £11. The lamb was of high quality and was advertised as being Welsh lamb. There were various vegetables including carrots broccoli and shallots as well as courgettes that tasted as though they had been cooked in vinegar. Generally though the veg was well cooked.
The roast potatoes were rather a disappointment. They tasted as though they had been roasted and then put in the microwave. This gets rid of all their crispiness and this is the whole point of roasting potatoes in the first place.
Generally, the portion size was excellent. The lamb was generous and thick. There were plenty of vegetables and though the courgettes were not to my personal liking I would say that the only part of the meal that let it down was the potatoes. At this price I expect everything to be of decent quality.
One of The 2 people with me had Tuna Steak and mash with Crispy Leeks. She said the tuna was good and the mash was excellent. Tuna is easy to overcook so this is good news. She said the crispy leeks were paper thin and crispy but pointless. I think they were more there for decoration which is a shame as they were the only veg with the meal.
Coffee was over £2 a cup and a pint of admittedly real apple juice cost over £3.50
The staff were very helpful and more than happy to read the menu. This counts for a lot if you go out with friends or for a business meal when you want things to just go smoothly without a hitch.
I would give this place a 7. It was let down by price and the roast potatoes and rather pointless way in which leeks were served. I would visit this place again I think. It is only about 3 minutes walk from Oval Station. For anyone interested its out and head right, over a couple of side roads. Someone suggested I should put some brief directions in my blog and that’s a good idea I think.
