Cheap eating in England and London
 

I am looking for advice on how to eat inexpensively in England and
especially London. This is for a college student with limited funds
on a study tour to Canterbury, Salisbury, Bath, Stratford, the Lake
District, York, and a week in London. The tour includes some meals,
but not in London, where the reservation is at the Strand Palace Hotel
for a week. This will be in January.

Therefore I will greatly appreciate whatever advice experienced
English travelers can give for inexpensive dining while there. Thank
you in advance.

Cheap eating in England and London
 

Kent Wendler wrote:
I am looking for advice on how to eat inexpensively in England and
especially London. This is for a college student with limited funds
on a study tour to Canterbury, Salisbury, Bath, Stratford, the Lake
District, York, and a week in London. The tour includes some meals,
but not in London, where the reservation is at the Strand Palace Hotel
for a week. This will be in January.

Therefore I will greatly appreciate whatever advice experienced
English travelers can give for inexpensive dining while there. Thank
you in advance.

For really cheap "hearty" eating, try a Pie and Mash shop.
They are dotted all over London.
Ones I have eaten at and can therefore recommend
are at
Greenwich ,( round the corner from Wetherspoons Pub)
Borough Market,.London bridge Tube
Cooks, Goldhawk Rd Shepherds Bush
Also Wetherspoons pubs are good value with daily specials
and of course there are also "greasy spoon" type cafes for fry-ups.

Jan

Jan


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"Kent Wendler" wrote
| I am looking for advice on how to eat inexpensively in England
| and especially London. This is for a college student with
| limited funds on a study tour to Canterbury, Salisbury, Bath,
| Stratford, the Lake District, York, and a week in London.
| The tour includes some meals, but not in London, where the
| reservation is at the Strand Palace Hotel for a week. This
| will be in January.

Look out for business lunch menus in Chinese, Indian and Italian
restaurants, especially in parts of town with plenty of large offices or on
the less affluent streets on the outskirts and consider making that your
main meal of the day. The same places may have early evening buffets.

For sandwiches etc, either at lunchtime or to keep for an evening snack if
you're having a hot lunch, bakers which make up their own are usually better
value than prepacked. Don't know if England has the Greggs chain, but as
well as sandwiches they do hot savouries, soup etc.

Fish'n'chip and pizza takeaways can be good value too, but shop around.

Owain

Cheap eating in England and London
 

"Kent Wendler" wrote in message
om...
I am looking for advice on how to eat inexpensively in England and
especially London. This is for a college student with limited funds
on a study tour to Canterbury, Salisbury, Bath, Stratford, the Lake
District, York, and a week in London. The tour includes some meals,
but not in London, where the reservation is at the Strand Palace Hotel
for a week. This will be in January.

Therefore I will greatly appreciate whatever advice experienced
English travelers can give for inexpensive dining while there. Thank
you in advance.

Check out the Chinatown area in London's West End, around the Gerrard Street
area.

Cheap eating in England and London
 

On Fri, 26 Dec 2003 14:49:24 +0000 (UTC), "Mike O'sullivan"
wrote:


I am looking for advice on how to eat inexpensively in England and

You might also try the universities themselves.

Cheap eating in England and London
 

On 26 Dec 2003 05:38:57 -0800, (Kent Wendler) wrote:

I am looking for advice on how to eat inexpensively in England and
especially London. This is for a college student with limited funds
on a study tour to Canterbury, Salisbury, Bath, Stratford, the Lake
District, York, and a week in London. The tour includes some meals,
but not in London, where the reservation is at the Strand Palace Hotel
for a week. This will be in January.

Therefore I will greatly appreciate whatever advice experienced
English travelers can give for inexpensive dining while there. Thank
you in advance.

University cafeterias will be cheap and filling. Also look out for
kebab shops. Keep an eye out for ones that also sell lahmacun
("Turkish pizza") - one of those will fill you up for about a pound.
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On 26 Dec 2003 05:38:57 -0800, (Kent Wendler)
wrote:

I am looking for advice on how to eat inexpensively in England and
especially London. This is for a college student with limited funds
on a study tour to Canterbury, Salisbury, Bath, Stratford, the Lake
District, York, and a week in London. The tour includes some meals,
but not in London, where the reservation is at the Strand Palace Hotel
for a week. This will be in January.

Therefore I will greatly appreciate whatever advice experienced
English travelers can give for inexpensive dining while there. Thank
you in advance.

Must you "dine"? There is food available fairly inexpensively in
the supermarkets, breads, cheeses, etc.

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Cheap eating in England and London
 

"Mike O'sullivan" wrote in message ...

Check out the Chinatown area in London's West End, around the Gerrard Street
area.

The one Chinese restaurant we ate in (that was recommended by a travel
book) was in Leicester Square area. I might be biased because I get
good Chinese food everyday, but the food was expensive and not so
good.

We also ate at two Indian restaurants in Earl's Court. They were
okay, but still expensive.

We finally got fed up, and ate fish and chips, which weren't too bad
if you can gag down the soggy chips. I think we bought two servings
of fish and chips and the 3 of us ate it. I think it came to $3 or $4
per person for dinner. (Then the exchange rate was $1.65 for 1
pound.)

We lucked out because the place we stayed at offered a full English
breakfast and we loaded up on brunch every morning. Around 2 or 3
p.m. we had "tea"--either some roll or pastry and coffee. If you do
what we did, you can keep your food budget under control.

Good luck!

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Charles Hawtrey wrote:
Look for all-you-can-eat specials and make them your main meal of the
day. I think they are more common at lunch rather than dinner. For
an interesting experience try the unlimited lunch at Govinda's, which
is the Hare Krishna-run cafeteria on Soho Street just north of Soho
Square.

Try to sneak in some salt and pepper though.

miguel
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