The London Traveler

 Life isn’t easy if you’re a vegetarian. Just too many restaurants have a single vegetarian option, or offer an unimaginative array of single-veg dishes.
Buffet V is different. It’s a Chinese buffet with a difference – all the dishes are vegetarian. Soya ‘duck’ and ‘chicken’ are available, but you can also find spiced aubergines, spring rolls, wonderful greens. It even smells great when you’re walking down the road – which is what attracted me in the first place.
And the greens actually looked green – not completely limp and overcooked. In fact the whole display looked exceptionally appetising, with a …read more

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Eel pie and mash shops used to be a prominent part of the East End. They’re almost all gone now – somehow, their pies and the virulent green ‘liquor’ which went with them don’t appeal to the sensibility of the average post-modern man-about-town.
But at 41 Kingsland Road you can find a stunning example of the eel pie and mash shop – now turned into a Chinese restaurant.
The long bar in the front room is the original pie and mash shop’s counter. And every little detail is significant – little entwined fishes form the clips that hold up the mirrors, the …read more

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