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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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.