English Food

[tiggerlover]

I will be in London soon and I wanted to sample some typical English food, but besides fish and chips I have no idea what to try. Any recommendations???

Thanks!

 

[Fantasia Sam]

- Bangers and Mash
- Roast Beef Dinner
- Cottage Pie
- Steak and Kidney Pie or Steak and Kidney Pudding.
- Syrup Sponge and custard
- Spotted Dick (I'm not kiddin') and custard
- English Trifle

A good restaurant to go to IMHO is:

Porters English Restaurant
(Reservations)

(020) 7836 6466

17, Henrietta St
London
WC2E 8QH

HTH

 

[Goofyish]

If you want typical English food then try one of the many Indian restaurants in London

 

[Mrs Dazzle]

It's got to be good old roast beef and yorkshire pudding Sundays are traditional "roast" days over here: lamb, pork, beef, chicken, turkey and all the trimmings. Oh oh, my breakfast is needed now

In London a particular favourite of the Cockneys is jellied eels, or cockles and winkles Sorry, but don't do any of those, but you will see them around, specially near the river.

Would love to hear what you try when you come over

 

[Olaf]

Tim and his curry.

 

[tiggerlover]

Originally posted by Fantasia Sam
- Bangers and Mash
- Roast Beef Dinner
- Cottage Pie
- Steak and Kidney Pie or Steak and Kidney Pudding.
- Syrup Sponge and custard
- Spotted Dick (I'm not kiddin') and custard
- English Trifle

Thanks for the list! But I am afraid this girl needs some translation on some of the above. I am assuming that mash might be mashed potatoes, but what is bangers? A roast beef dinner will be right up DH's alley, he loves roast beef. Cottage pie, what is this? Syrup and sponge custard sounds interesting, is this a dessert? And do tell what spotted dick is, I have never heard this one either. And I am afraid I haven't a clue as to what english trifle is either.

Thank you again, Sam.

 

[tiggerlover]

Originally posted by Mrs Dazzle
It's got to be good old roast beef and yorkshire pudding Sundays are traditional "roast" days over here: lamb, pork, beef, chicken, turkey and all the trimmings. Oh oh, my breakfast is needed now

In London a particular favourite of the Cockneys is jellied eels, or cockles and winkles Sorry, but don't do any of those, but you will see them around, specially near the river.

Would love to hear what you try when you come over

DH is a roast beef lover, so he will be very happy to hear this. The Sunday we will be in town we have 2:00 tickets to see The Lion King, should it be possible to catch a roast beef meal at noon on a Sunday and still make the show? Or do they save the roasts for dinner time? And is yorkshire pudding a dessert? I have so much to learn!! I think I will pass on the eels though, don't think I could bring myself to eat them.

Thanks all!

 

[Fantasia Sam]

Yorkshire pudding is a batter - similar to that of pancakes just runnier that is cooked in hot fat in a dish in the oven and is savoury

Bangers are sausages but ours are big fat juicy ones.

Syrup sponge is sponge cake mixture normally steamed with a sweet runny suryp sauce that also melts into the sponge a nice dessert

Trifle - sponge base soakes in sherry and sometimes jello is added, fruit is another layer and then custard and cream. That's a basic one anyway.

Cottage pie - minced beef cooked in gravy with veg topped with mashed potatoes and baked in the oven. Another alternative is Shepherd's Pie which is the same made with minced lamb.

Oh yes a Roast beef meal is typically served at lunchtime you'll have no problem getting one.

 

[BONZO]

For good English nosh - try Simpsons in the strand

Pricey but good.

They may not accept jeans but have Full English Breakfasts to die for!

 

[BONZO]

Spotted Dick

Recipe for Spotted Dick

 

[WDWfan uk]

Definitely a roast! BUT it does need to be carved freshly off the joint - none of these thin slice thingies that some restaurants/pubs pass off as roast meat - can anoyne recommend a good place for a REAL Sunday lunch in London?

There's a great restaurant in Covent Garden - can't remember the name - I'll try and find the earlier thread where it was mentioned.

 

[Dimplenose]

I'm finding this thread fascinating as I hadn't really thought of any food as being typically English before. As you're also signed up with WISH I think I'd better warn you that most of the food mentioned is a dieter's nightmare!!


Libby

PS have you tried toad-in-the-hole - also a dieter's nightmare but something my Nan used to make.

 

[tiggerlover]

Originally posted by Dimplenose
I'm finding this thread fascinating as I hadn't really thought of any food as being typically English before. As you're also signed up with WISH I think I'd better warn you that most of the food mentioned is a dieter's nightmare!!


Libby

PS have you tried toad-in-the-hole - also a dieter's nightmare but something my Nan used to make.

I was worried about that, Libby. I am 3 pounds away from my next goal and 4 pounds away from 50 pounds lost and I was hoping to reach that goal by Halloween, October 31. I am not sure how 6 days in London is going to add up on the scale, but I am willing to do some tasting, after all I will be walking a lot! LOL I have never heard of toad-in-the-hole, what is it?

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Also, if anyone has any recommendations for Sunday noon for a roast dinner that is near the theater, I would love to hear it. We are going to The Lion King show at the Lyceum Theater on Wellington. We will be with my 7 year old son and I have heard he can not go into pubs, so I guess we would need a regular restaurant.

Thanks again folks, you all have been so helpful to me in my trip planning. Have a great day!

 

[WDWFOREVER]

Toad in the hole is sausages covered in a batter mix (like yorkshire pudding) - sausages go in the dish, batter poured over them, put in the oven to cook.

Another typical London dish is pie and mash which you would get in the same kind of place as jellied eels, etc. mentioned earlier. A real treat rolleyes: ) is to have the pie (made with minced beef) and mash covered in a green gravy known as "liquor" - basically a gravy/sauce made with parsley ...

 

[WDWfan uk]

....... whilst you are here, be sure to buy some Scottish shortbread! The supermarkets are stocking up on it now for Christmas!
(A Scottish friend of mine says Deans is the best shortbread sold down South).

 

[jean88]

Walker's shortbread is much better, infact they sell it at world showcase, if you go to the uk and go into Scotland you'll get some there.

Jean

 

[poohstix]

Don't forget the good old English Breakfast.

Fried eggs,Bacon,Tomatoes,black pudding,Fried Bread,sausages and baked beans.

Washed down with good old English tea....

Don't think I have missed anything.

One thing is for sure, I would kiss goodbye to your waistline before you go

 

[profdsny]

I'm finding this real interesting. I can't wait to get back. There used to be a chain of restaurants called "The Carvery" which had a lot of the above mentioned, but really used to be big on roasts. And it was a serve yourself, so you could really pig out. Are there any more of those places around?

 

[Andrew Bichard]

Originally posted by Fantasia Sam
- Bangers and Mash
- Roast Beef Dinner
- Cottage Pie
- Steak and Kidney Pie or Steak and Kidney Pudding.
- Syrup Sponge and custard
- Spotted Dick (I'm not kiddin') and custard
- English Trifle

HTH

To that list I would add

Pork Pies - buy in any supermarket and sit down in a park to eat as a snack.

Cornish Pasties (Though you should avoid all pasties sold wrapped in plastic. The pasties sold in Cornwall are superbe. The factory produced pasties sold in the rest of the country are dire.

Ploughman's Lunch. A chunk of crusty bread, served with a slab of cheddar cheese and butter with Branston Pickle and maybe a pickled onion. All washed down with a pint of real ale. A traditional pub lunch.

Translation - Cheese _ real tangy cheese with flavour, not the insipid rubbery stuff sold in USA!!! Branston - a sweet brown pickle.. Real Ale - like a microbrew, but better.

Lancashire Hot-Pot, a form of lamb stew.

Kippers - smoked fish sometimes served at breakfast.

Meat Pies generally. Go to the deli section at Fortnum, & Mason on Picadilly.

A traditional English Tea - try Fountains restaurant at Fortnum & Mason (as above)

And the person who mentioned curries wasn't joking. 'Indian' food has now overtaken Fish & Chips as the most popular take out meal in the UK.

Not English, but you need to try Haggis if you get the chance. Served with tatties & 'neaps and washed down with a bottle of single malt. You don't *NEED* to know what a haggis is. You wouldn't *WANT* to know what goes into a haggis. After the bottle of malt you won't *CARE* what goes into a haggis!

....and English Trifle is a form of the dish also known as 'Zuppe Inglese' in Italy

Andrew

 

[FRANTIC FROG]

******s, chips and mushy peas!! ( heaven)
bacon butties( lovely)
a good old fry-up - find a good old greasy spoon cafe ( can't beat it)
tripe & onions( YUK!!!)
jam roly-poly with lashings of custard
semolina and tapioca, rice pudding
a good old cuppa with a digestive for dunking!!!
MMMMMMMMMmmmmmmmm
I've made myself feel hungry
Lin