Little Oranges
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 -
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...
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 continuesAdvertisementVeggie 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
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.
Simply Thai on Exmouth Market has the worst pad thai I've ever had. (Trust a half-Thai on this!)
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.
don't be silly sally lower marsh is too south for time out
What about Lower Marsh?