This is a relatively new restaurant that used to be called Halal Bite. It is almost next to Stepney Green Underground station and it is one of the better cheap eats establishments in the area. Halal Bite shut early last year and it has now been taken over by new owners who renamed it. It describes itself as an American restaurant but the Bangladeshi owners also make their mark very clear on this restaurant though they do serve some distinctive food that makes them a cut above the rest of the chicken slop shops in the area.
They do sell chicken slop. They do fried chicken and shish kebabs that have that local taste as well as very low quality lamb doner meat but there are numerous saving graces.
I have been quite ill for the first 2 months of this year so I have not been out that much. This eatery provided me with a very welcome break while on the way back from the co-op when I had a chest infection. Staff are generally quite friendly and they are reasonably quick to serve you. they sell average quality fresh ground coffee and a range of cakes. They also sell a decent selection of ice cream and they make milk shakes using chocolate such as maltesers, flakes and snickers bars. These trends have caught on in some of the posher Bangladeshi restaurants though few are worth travelling any distance to. This place at least smells clean and staff seem to speak enough English to be helpful.
The Lollipop Diner does have distinctive features however. They make their own beef and chicken burgers for a very reasonable £3.45 for a half pounder. These burgers are made with 100 percent beef and are in my opinion at least as good as anything you would get in Burger King. You can buy them as a meal deal with chips but the chips are just average quality fries and are nothing special. They also sell hot dogs which come with sausages similar to jumbo sausages available from many chip shops. They are typical chip shop low quality but better than most hot dogs you buy from mobile vans etc.
They also sell a range of curries but I am yet to try these.
Lollipop Diner is probably not worth travelling to though if the curries turn out to be exceptional I will of course update this. It is however quite clean. It sells a good range of food including decent burgers and ice cream. It does a reasonable cup of coffee for £1.55 and it’s generally one of the best places in the area.
The food is a bit variable so I give Lollipop Diner an over all mark of 6 out of 10 with some things such as the burgers being worth 8 while other foods such as chicken dishes being worth a 5 and the doner kebabs are worth no more than 4.
I have not visited this place yet with anyone that has a guide dog but if this is a problem I will of course produce an update.
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