London's best street food
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By Guy Dimond, Charmaine Mok, Ben Norum, Euan Ferguson. Photography Ed Marshall
Posted: Fri Jul 31 2009
Broadway Market | Portobello and Golborne Roads | Greenwich Market | Exmouth Market | Whitecross Street | Brick LanePortobello and Golborne Roads
Spinach & Agushi Grilled, Fried & Tagine Fish
Coming down Golborne Road from Westbourne Park/Elkstone Road, this is the first stall on the right (Friday and Saturday only). Perch on a stool and enjoy mini fish tagines, a platter of calamari, or a Moroccan spiced salmon steak for £5 – or walk away with a chermoula-fried sardine in a roll with owner Hmid’s special chilli sauce for £3. Next door is a burger van (Monday to Saturday), bearing the legend Moroccan soups written above the menu on the side, which is often surrounded by locals sitting and chatting. Try the spicy harira, or the milder strained lentil soup with a squeeze of lemon. Neither will set you back more than a couple of pounds.
Stalls
Along Golborne Road is an un-named kebab stall, a locals’ favourite, open Monday to Saturday, serving lamb, chicken or beef kebabs and some lamb kofte, all cooked to order on a large charcoal grill. These meats are served in a baguette with salad and sauce for £3.50. If it’s anywhere near lunchtime, expect a long wait.
Next door is a falafel stall – again unnamed – selling freshly fried falafels wrapped in flatbread with salad, chilli-peanut sauce and houmous. A small wrap costs £2.50, a large one £3. This is another Monday to Saturday stall, and another one where you should expect to wait. Feature continuesAdvertisementJerk Shack
On Saturdays, the space next to these stalls is occupied by Jerk Shack. This weekly stall opened following the success of a temporary stand at the Notting Hill Carnival in 2008. It’s proprietor offers jerk chicken, curry goat, snapper, rice and peas, coleslaw and fried plantain as well as sweet, sugar-dusted ‘festival’ buns. A hearty meal of curry, rice, coleslaw and plantain to take away or eat on the stall’s table costs £5 – gossip comes at no extra cost.
Ethiopian Cuisine
This newest of all the market’s stalls offers Ethiopian specialties such as the dahl-like lentil stew called doro wat, sour-tasting injera flatbread and lots of Ethiopian coffee. A full meal costs around £5.
Happy Vegetarian
After a run of fruit and veg stalls on Portobello Road, the first point of interest on your left is Happy Vegetarian (Monday to Saturday), which is another falafel stall selling similar wraps to the stall on Golborne Road, but with a larger range of salads and a shorter queue. You may pay 50p more because the market, like most things, seems to get more expensive the closer to Notting Hill you get.
Jollof Pot
Jollof Pot (Saturday only) outside the Electric Cinema. One of a small chain, it offers a range of Ghanaian stews, soups and rice dishes which are handily sitting in large open pans so you can get a good look before choosing. A small selection of rice and two stews costs £5 and is more than enough to satisfy.
Golborne Road and Portobello Road, W10/W11. Ladbroke Rd tube. Many stalls are there 9am-4pm Mon-Fri, but all are there for the main market on Saturdays. The market is open from 8am-6.30pm but many stalls set up late and leave early, so 11am-4pm is the best time to visit.
Broadway Market | Portobello and Golborne Roads | Greenwich Market | Exmouth Market | Whitecross Street | Brick Lane
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17 comments
Spinach & Agushi is very tasty but the prices are not what it says above its more like rice and 2 stews £6 small and also they have half prices deals at the end of the day where I got sick of the food they served me next morning, they need to warm the food before serving people.
Happy Vegetarian falafel stall in Portobello - the best, freshest falafels and friendliest service in London. And cheap to boot, highly recommned this one.
Goddards Pie & Mash- Are we referring to the one on Deptford High Street? If yes, then it is still open to business.
Just to let you know that Ca Phe VN has launched its own Banh Mi brand - BanhMi SaiGon from our Broadway Market Saigon Street Cafe.
We have ended our association with Banhmi11 and now will compete with them head to head at Broadway every saturday !
Let the Banh Mi Battle commence!
My partner Tuyen is back in the business after giving birth to our daughter Lotus last year & is preparing the ingredients for our excellent
South Vietnamese Five Pork Banh mi, we are also in the finals of the British Street Food Awards in September!
our press release below
Ca Phe VN has launched its own Banhmi – Banh Mi SaiGon – every Saturday at the Saigon Street Cafe – Benjamin Close, Broadway Market E8 10-5
5 pork, traditional Southern style baguette – excellent light bread with cha bong, steamed pork, cha, gammon ham, pate, pickled diakon & carrot, cucumber, spring onion, coriander, gravy, Vietnamese mayonaise & chilli.
Ca Phe VN 07780784696
The shop did close, but there is a Goddards stall in the Fountain Market near the railway, selling the pie and mash we have loved for years!
Goddard's in Greenwich closed in 2007 at least, if not earlier, and this review was posted in July 09! It was a sad loss that this review doesn't see fit to register at all. Does Time Out ever actually visit the places it reviews?!
Goulston St by Petticoat Lane has an embarrasment of choice when the market's on in the week (not sure about weekends) - 2 Thai vans, 1 Chinese, 1 Indian. And then there's the chippie and other delights like the Brazilian cafe nearby.
The sort of quality stalls they had in Spitalfields before it turned into Centreparks.
WE LOVE DE LA PANZA!!!!!
it would be useful to actually review some of these stalls. luardo's does wonderful freshly cooked burritos, with homemade guacamole, salsa etc at a very reasonable fiver. whereas Caribbean Food sells offcuts of terrible chicken in flavourless tepid water also for a fiver. Sunny's olive tree has 15 salads, all freshly prepared, offering a great variety of flavours and textures. In the summer, the most popular stall in the market...
What about the great Whitecross Street Food Market
Most of the markets are in East London except for Portobello.. how about stalls in Acton Market, Berwick Street, Ealing etc?
You missed out the Leather Lane market in Farringdon - Some great food from around the world...its right outside my office door!
Good point about Lower Marsh, I recently worked in the area for a few months and it's a great little street with a regular street market which has a good range of tasty food.
Spinach & Agushi is the best but it's also some of the spiciest food I've ever eaten.
Time Out missed out the REAL London street food .... those disgusting unidentified ingredient sausages frying with onions on illegal (but still rife) grills wheeled about the west end.