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 Lane
Greenwich Market
Greenwich Market Son of Pampa
At the market’s north entrance, one of the first stalls is Son of Pampa. There’s a hot grill on one side for Argentinian-style chivitos (barbecue sandwiches): they’re filled with imported grass-fed beef steak or free-range marinated chicken, chimichurri sauce and salad, and served on a hand-made ciabatta for £4.
On the other side, a little fryer is kept busy making fresh churros – deep fried sticks of dough, filled with dulce de leche (caramel sauce) or chocolate, rolled in sugar and cinnamon (£2). This colourful and bustling stall usually draws the biggest weekend queues in the market.
Sausages Ltd
A spicy Louisiana-style Creole sausage sandwich with roast peppers and onions for £4.
Goddards
At the far end of Fountain Food Court (near the Antiques Market) look out for this surviving outlet of the pie and mash business founded in 1890 in Deptford. Expect good-quality renditions of the traditional bill of meat pie and mash with liquor (£3), jellied eels and fruit pies – all at the loose change prices you’d expect for these age-old London victuals. Goddard’s is open at weekends from 9.30am to 6pm.
The Real Baking Company
Longstanding market favourite The Real Baking Company features picture-perfect display of beautiful home-made cupcakes and other sweet treats which start at £1.80. Feature continuesAdvertisementJuicy Bar
Next to quaint Turnpin Lane there’s Juicy Bar, which squeezes combinations from its greengrocer-style display of fruit into a glass for £3.
Fountain Food Court
In Fountain Food Court there’s a few outdoor tables between small stalls offering cheap but rather undistinguished Thai, Chinese and burger bar-style options, although the recently opened Baguette & More deserves a mention for jointly pioneering the unusual banh mi Vietnamese sandwich (see Banhmi11, Broadway Market).
Greenwich Market, SE10 (www. greenwichmarket.net). Cutty Sark DLR. Food stalls open 11am-6pm Wed; 10am-5.30pm Sat, Sun.
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.