Best cheap eats

What I love about London's restaurants and cafés is the variety. Do you feel like eating Indian? Or maybe Indonesian? Latvian? Or rather Japanese? London has it all!

Every kind of cuisine, super chic haute-cuisine restaurants but also budget places. London's budget places show that low price does not mean low quality...to the contrary!

Of course outside of London's center there are a lot of cheap eats and good offers, but I know some places in the heart of London, where you can have drinks, main course and dessert for around £15.

Italian
Pizzeria Icco

Most people who don't know Icco and the pizza there would probably walk past this place. It looks like a American canteen, not chic at all, but curde with bright lights. But you forget about that after your first bite of pizza.

One of the best pizzas I've ever eaten in London, during lunch time it's always full of business men and students. But don't worry the service is quick and friendly.

You will have your Italian pizza after a couple of minutes starting from £ 3.50 (take-away). The Cappuccino is perfectly Italian!
         

Thai : Thai metro

I love this place, it's exactly opposite of Roka but less fancy. Simple interior, small and authentic. Friendly service and best quality. The currys here are amazing, but also the starters and noodle dishes are delicious. Almost all main courses offer a choice between duck, beef, chicken, tofu or prawns....




















....and they don't serve you three poor prawns, or some slices of duck, but a generous full plate.

Same for the starters, instead of three slices of spare ribs we got a whole plate full of spare ribs with tasty sauce. Starters are around  £ 4 and main courses are  £ 6.50

Lebanese

Comptoir Libanais

This is a really delicious Lebanese food chain. One is located in Marylebone, one Soho and another one South Kensington. They have a large range of food, falafel, wraps, mousaka, halloumi steak and more. I can recommend the chicken taouk wrap, the chicken is really tasty and soft.

       

                     

Prices for main courses are around £ 8. The interior is a lovely mix of colorful designs and Lebanese details.

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Addresses:

Thai Metro

38 Charlotte Street, Fitzrovia
London W1T 2NN

Icco

46 Goodge Street, Fitzrovia
London W1T 4LU

Comptoir Libanais 

65 Wigmore Street, Marylebone
London W1U 1JT

1-5 Exhibtion Road, South Kensington
London E20 2HE

59 Broadwick Street, Soho
London W1F 9QH

Bill's

Bill's: delicious and unusual breakfast, lunch and dinner dishes.

You cannot stop looking around: the interior is amazing, it looks like a food shop with all the colourful cans, bottles and jam glasses on the wall. And actually you can really buy all those delicious groceries. 

They have a big choice of food, I couldn't figure out what kind of nationality Bill's cuisine is, because they have an endless variety of different cuisines. 

Italian pasta, American burgers, Libanese hummus and pita bread or African-portuguese piri-piri chicken, just to name a few.

For breakfast they have all typical types of eggs, like scrambled eggs, eggs benedict/florentine or  full english breakfast. Furthermore they serve unusual dishes as french toast with banana, strawberries, toasted walnut yoghurt and maple flavoured syrup. A new branch just opened in Soho the other one is in Covent Garden.

Address:  Bill's
       
Covent Garden
St Martin's Courtyard,
London WC2E 9AB                                                                                                                                                    

Soho

36-44 Brewer Street,

London, W1F 9TB

lamingtons

fascinating unique and creative interior

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poached egg, avocado and mushroom on toast...

what kind of cuisine do you fancy? this collage is created with photos taken by Bill's website