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  • London's best street food

  • By Guy Dimond, Charmaine Mok, Ben Norum, Euan Ferguson. Photography Ed Marshall

  • Some of London's tastiest - and best value - food is to be found in street stalls. Vietnamese? Ghanaian? Ethiopian? Find out where to grab the finest in these cuisines and more in our comprehensive guide to street food...

    London's best street food

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  • Broadway Market | Portobello and Golborne Roads | Greenwich Market | Exmouth Market | Whitecross Street | Brick Lane

    Broadway Market
    Rainha Santa
    The whole roast pig is becoming ubiquitous in food markets, but this one deserves praise for ensuring our porcine pal was raised organically (and outdoors) before roasting. Marination in garlic, fennel and rosemary adds an Iberian twist – and it’s good value at £4.80 a roll. Finish off the Portuguese experience with a pastel de nata (custard tart, £1).

    Ca Phe VN

    We’ve recommended their unique Vietnamese coffee before, but they’ve recently teamed up with the family-run Banhmi11 to begin selling a superb banh mi – the French/Vietnamese sandwich we’re noticing more and more around the city (see our recent blog on the subject). Here, it’s made with own-made pork liver pâté, own-made pickled vegetables, cured pork, coriander and chilli, served in a baguette for an improbably cheap £2.50. If you’ve not tried one yet, you know where to go. There are a few rows of seats and tables on the street next to the stall to sit and watch Hackney go by, and on a hot day, a Vietnamese iced espresso goes down a treat (£2).

    Broadway
    Coffee lovers are also well looked after here – the outstanding Climpson & Son shop is usually packed, but on market days, buy one of its acclaimed espressos or piccolos from the stall outside the shop.

    Il Carretino

    A dinky little hand cart with a parasol, which sells Italian-style ice cream made in Hackney. There are only three flavours (vanilla, chocolate, strawberry), but the gelato is clearly made with love. Sprinkle chopped nuts over your tub or chocolate cone (£2.50). Feature continues

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    Veggie Table
    Up towards London Fields, on the left, the Veggie Table (also found at Whitecross Street) grills own-made vegetable/halloumi burgers (from £5) and also have big bowls filled with inspired yet simple salads, such as potato or cannellini bean (£4).

    There’s also quite a bit of crossover up this end of the street with Exmouth Market in Clerkenwell – stalls which head to Hackney on a Saturday include Spinach & Agushi, Gujarati Rasoi and the Jewish Deli

    Broadway Market, E8 (www.broadwaymarket.co.uk). Cambridge Heath or London Fields rail. 10am-5pm Saturday.

    Broadway Market | Portobello and Golborne Roads | Greenwich Market | Exmouth Market | Whitecross Street | Brick Lane

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14 comments

  1. Posted by Pienmash on 12 Nov 2009 15:25

    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!

  2. Posted by Hannah Chamberlain on 12 Nov 2009 14:43

    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?!

  3. Posted by Pete on 01 Oct 2009 00:02

    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.

  4. Posted by JM on 26 Aug 2009 15:55

    Simply Thai on Exmouth Market has the worst pad thai I've ever had. (Trust a half-Thai on this!)

  5. Posted by Guacho on 15 Aug 2009 21:05

    WE LOVE DE LA PANZA!!!!!

  6. Posted by jojo on 14 Aug 2009 10:48

    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...

  7. Posted by Chiswell on 10 Aug 2009 23:10

    What about the great Whitecross Street Food Market

  8. Posted by Anita on 09 Aug 2009 09:56

    Most of the markets are in East London except for Portobello.. how about stalls in Acton Market, Berwick Street, Ealing etc?

  9. Posted by Steve on 07 Aug 2009 12:24

    You missed out the Leather Lane market in Farringdon - Some great food from around the world...its right outside my office door!

  10. Posted by Sarah on 06 Aug 2009 23:40

    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.

  11. Posted by Rob on 06 Aug 2009 20:55

    Spinach & Agushi is the best but it's also some of the spiciest food I've ever eaten.

  12. Posted by Eggmeister on 06 Aug 2009 19:01

    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.

  13. Posted by paul on 06 Aug 2009 17:09

    don't be silly sally lower marsh is too south for time out

  14. Posted by Sally on 06 Aug 2009 14:11

    What about Lower Marsh?

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