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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. |
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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 --- Outgoing mail is certified Virus Free. Checked by AVG anti-virus system (http://www.grisoft.com). Version: 6.0.554 / Virus Database: 346 - Release Date: 20/12/03 |
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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 |
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"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. |
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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. |
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"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 -- Hundreds of travel photos from around the world: http://travel.u.nu/ |
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