anotherjudy

Where is the Albert? I am always intersted in a rec for a good pub. I will be there in April and love going to a pub for lunch or maybe even dinner.
I hope you are having a great time! Well, as of this writing I think you are on the plane. So probably not having a great time yet, but soon!
Judy

will_travel_for_food

Guys,

I am amused by your some of your responses and grateful for the suggestions - it looks like I have some GREAT ones.

anotherjudy:
Not on the plane yet... leave for the airport in a few hours... trying to deprive myself of as much sleep as possible since I can never sleep on planes.

The Albert is at 52 Victoria Street (tube=victoria)

My dad also recommends the Cask & Glass - any time my parents are in London they wind up here every single night... not so much for the food (which I assume is good) but the company - their first trip was 7 years ago and they regularly keep in touch via email with customers & staff via email. It is at 39 Palace Street (tube=Victoria)

/getting tired now but LOVED the thread on culture shock, MUST STAY AWAKE/

francophile03

Doesn't The Albert have a restaurant upstairs from the pub? If this is the same The Albert we went to on our city tour, the pub food wasn't that great. But I did read that the formal restaurant upstairs is alot better.

Lovejoy

Thr Albert seems to get mixed reviews.
http://www.beerintheevening.com/pubs/show.shtml/187/

bettyk

I will apologize in advance if I offend anyone, but am I the only one who thinks m_kingdom is an ASS?

Who needs this kind of "help"???

Patrick

bettyk, no offense, but I think everyone here has already discovered that!

sweetj

Try Porters English Restaurant:
http://www.porters-restaurant.com/
17 Henrietta Street
Covent Garden
London, WC2E 8QH
Tel: +44 (0)20 7836 6466
Moderately priced English food that actually tastes good. Service is great and staff is friendly. Right by Covent Garden. Check out their website.

nikkib

One of the places I love in London is Paradiso e Inferno (Italian food) on the Strand. Nice atmosphere, great service and good Italian food (you'd pay a lot more for the same meal in the states, although they do charge a lot of "extras" so watch that). If you're broke or in a hurry, Sainsbury's (a wonderful grocery store) has a nice array of fresh fruit, breads, desserts, cheeses, pre-made sandwiches and other fare you can grab on the cheap!

nikkib

Try this site, too: http://www.londontown.com/cm/nav.php...on=Restaurants

JonJon

I'm beginning to really wonder if the Fodorite get-togethers have sniping exchanges such as some of the ones above....groan!

Nikki

JonJon, I was pleased but not surprised to find at the one Fodorite get-together I atttended recently that people were very friendly, enthusiastic and supportive. The snipers probably aren't interested in attending gatherings with actual people face to face.

Going to London next week and looking forward to trying some of the suggestions here.

nikkib

Hi Nikki - This is NikkiB ... so am I how weird! Have a wonderful trip!

Nikki

Hi NikkiB, maybe I'll see you there (won't know it though...).

ThinGorjus

My god, why would I want to meet any of you face-to-face???? Even Anoushka Hemphill would throw slipcovers over many of you and pretend you were furniture.

Some of you are pathetic and very clingy. I would suggest that if you are that lonely you should buy yourself a mink coat to fondle and leave me out of it. Cheers.

m_kingdom

"Hemphill" - are you possibly suggesting that she is a mound of hemp?

Try Hempel dear.

wealthy_backpacker

I would not recommend Sainsbury's as a good grocery store. It is better than Safeway, Tesco, Asda, Co-op and Morrissons. But not much better and it is more expensive. If you want good groceries go to a decent deli or a food hall in a department store or one of the london markets such as Borough Market. There are new organic supermarkets (ie, Fresh and Wild, Planet Organic etc) which are much better than Sainsbury's and not much more expensive. Fortnum's is good for food too. If you need a supermarket Waitrose is better than Sainsbury's but not that much better. English supermarkets are appalling (although supermarkets are bad in most countries) abd it is hard to avoid them outside London due to the poor quality of shops. But in London there is no excuse to eat poor quality and over priced vegetables or cheap meat. The meat at the Farmer;s markets is cheaper than Sainsbury's and so much tastier one can't really compare the two...

Certainly never consider buying meat from a UK supermarket. You will know very little about it and how it was reared. I only use the supermarket for canned items and even then I prefer to support my local shop...

ThinGorjus

It is "over-priced" vegetables, dear, because it is used as an adjective. ("Overpriced" if it is a trans. verb.) You obviously don't have a first from Oxford. Not only are English markets appalling, but so is your punctuation, judging from previous posts.

I wish I could spend my entire day on Fodors, resting on my laurels, writing about the Grande Bretagne Hotel in Athens, like you do, dear, the one NICE hotel you've slept in. You probably had to scrub a lot of floors to afford your three nights there, dear.

You are a very poor epigone, dear. Cheers.

wealthy_backpacker

ThinGorjus

You are an aggressive one!

For a start you haven't even addressed your message to anyone - addressing correspondence is really a very basic skill that you should have picked up in primary school.

And if you are going to bang on at people for bad English, kindly set an example yourself. Your posts are full of mistakes yet I don't criticise you. I only criticise M_Kingdom as he/she criticises others yet fails to adhere to what he/she preaches.

I have never stayed in a hotel in Athems as I have only visited the place a few times on business and never for more than a day on the mainland.

Considering I did not grow up in England, it is not surprising that I did not take a first from Oxford. I went to University of New South Wales and more recently Stamford.

"It is "over-priced" vegetables, dear, because it is used as an adjective. ("Overpriced" if it is a trans. verb.) You obviously don't have a first from Oxford. Not only are English markets appalling, but so is your punctuation, judging from previous posts.

I wish I could spend my entire day on Fodors, resting on my laurels, writing about the Grande Bretagne Hotel in Athens, like you do, dear, the one NICE hotel you've slept in. You probably had to scrub a lot of floors to afford your three nights there, dear.

You are a very poor epigone, dear. Cheers."

ThinGorjus

Ooooooooooops! Sorry! I thought MKingdom posted the the story about appalling English markets. Mea Culpa.

It was MKingdom I was addressing, WB, not you.

I am so embarrassed. But, I will get over it, won't I.

But, WB, while I am at it, why are you disparaging English markets??? American supermarkets are no better.

Tallulah

Try Capital Restaurant (in the Capital Hotel) in Knightsbridge. It's one of only a handful of restaurants with two Michelin stars in the city - if you go for lunch you can get 4 courses for £28.50 and it is SUCH a bargain, the food is, as you would expect with 2 Michelin stars, superb. It's on Basil Street, not far from Harrods.