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Recommend a Restaurant
I'm having my birthday soon. And I can't decide where to go for dinner.
I want to try something different from the usual - Chinese, japanese food or Pizza. Can someone recommend any good mexican, brazilian or Cuban restaurants in London?! |
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If you don't mind a few hours travel there is a great South African restaurant in Praia Da Luz, Portugal!
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LMAO @ the comments!
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I'm having my birthday soon. And I can't decide where to go for dinner.
I want to try something different from the usual - Chinese, japanese food or Pizza. Can someone recommend any good mexican, brazilian or Cuban restaurants in London?! Although website seems to be down at the moment?
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I recall seeing a Lebanese Restaurant near Chelsea - the food quite literally is bollocks (Sheep Testicles!!)
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Cafe Pacifico (Langley St, WC2) does the best fajitas I've ever eaten. A good lively atmosphere too so good for a birthday celebration. http://www.cafepacifico-laperla.com/...fico/index.htm
For Cuban, try Floridita (bit pricey though!) http://www.floridita.co.uk/london/ |
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Cafe Pacifico (Langley St, WC2) does the best fajitas I've ever eaten. A good lively atmosphere too so good for a birthday celebration. http://www.cafepacifico-laperla.com/...fico/index.htm
For Cuban, try Floridita (bit pricey though!) http://www.floridita.co.uk/london/ |
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I recall seeing a Lebanese Restaurant near Chelsea - the food quite literally is bollocks (Sheep Testicles!!)
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Have you been to La Tasca before? Thats very nice Tapas food.
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A very nice Argentinian restaurant is Gaucho, excellent steaks. They are all over London, the Richmond one is particularly nice as it by the river. www.gaucho.co.uk
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Thanks you guys! I knew I would get some great suggestions from DS!
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Benihana in King's Road, Chelsea is a Japanese Teppinyaki (sp?) restaurant. I absolutely loved it the couple of times I went there - they cook a good part of your dinner at your table, so its quite good fun when there is a reasonable sized group of you - and a little bit different! It's not cheap but not prohibitively expensive .... although having said that I didn't pay either time I went, I was treated
Hope you enjoy your birthday wherever you decide to go! |
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If you don't mind a few hours travel there is a great South African restaurant in Praia Da Luz, Portugal!
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Wahaca in Covent Garden does pretty decent Mexican food, and it's pretty authentic, none of this tex-mex fajita and burritos rubbish!
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A very nice Argentinian restaurant is Gaucho, excellent steaks. They are all over London, the Richmond one is particularly nice as it by the river. www.gaucho.co.uk
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Tex Mex and Cal Mex is fine if that's what you are after but it's not authentic Mexican of which there is a severe shortage for a food city like London. I keep getting excited when places open and are good for a while and then decline or just shut down. I used to like Beach Burrito but that shut down and reopened nearby as Mexicali which was nowhere near as good. Green and Red in Shoreditch was brilliant when it first opened but has really gone downhill. I wasn't all that impressed with Wahaca when I went but I'll give it another go.
Does anyone know a consistently good Mexican restaurant that does things like escabeche or mole? |
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Cuba Libre in Islington (on Upper Street) is fantastic - wonderful food, party atmosphere, stays open late.
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I wouldn't go to La Tasca, not very authentic tapas
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Gosh! I'm spoilt for choice
![]() I had narrowed it down to Cafe Pacifico and Wahaca. But, Cuba Libre and Green and Red sound nice and they are close to where I live . . . |
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Wahaca in Covent Garden does pretty decent Mexican food, and it's pretty authentic, none of this tex-mex fajita and burritos rubbish!
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Burritos are authentic Mexican food.
![]() ![]() The mexican burritos are nothing like the flour tortilla ones you get in 'mexican restaurants'. The gringos have stolen our food and made it their own.
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If you want something different you couldn't do much better than this place http://archipelago-restaurant.co.uk/.
Fantastic food, fantastic service would really recommend it! |
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