Cafe Latino at Crystal Palace

Cafe Latino in the Triangle at Crystal Palace is a Venezuelan outlet which I visited for the first time on Friday last week for breakfast. The small size of the cafe does not detract from the good quality of the food.



And if you are into colourful masks, this is the place to buy them!

The Seacow in East Dulwich

I definitely recommend a visit to this fish and chip restaurant at which I ate on Thursday evening last week. The Seacow is on Lordship Lane in East Dulwich. Very unpretentious but excellent food at reasonable prices.





We had the salmon and the tuna stakes.



New potatoes as an alternative to chips.

The Palmerston in East Dulwich

I visited the Palmerston pub on Lordship Lane in East Dulwich last week when I was in London. An interesting pub with heavy wood paneling, I opted for a pint of Orchard Hog, a very pleasant cider.





Food is served here but we were planning to eat elsewhere. From what we saw of other people's meals, they looked good.

Signal at Forest Hill

I met up with a friend last night in Forest Hill, Lewisham. He selected the Signal pub as the meeting point. I could see why. It was opposite the railway station. All I had to do was negotiate a very busy road to get to the pub.



Apparently the Signal was renovated recently. We were there for only one drink and then headed off to East Dulwich.

The Postal Order at Crystal Palace

You can't beat Wetherspoons for a cheap, filling meal! Since I had no food in the kitchen of our home in Crystal Palace yesterday, I headed up to the Triangle to the Postal Order, a Wetherspoon pub which serves good and cheap breakfasts. Sadly, it seems I was too late for the breakfast menu. I had a burger instead.

The Godfather in Crystal Palace

I am down in London again and on Wednesday evening we visited a new pizzeria near my home in Crystal Palace. The Godfather, on Westow Hill, has its own wood fired pizza oven.



Food was reasonable and competitively priced. Friendly service. Worth a visit.

Waggon Team at Lobley Hill

I had lunch with a friend at the Waggon Team at Lobley Hill in Gateshead on Saturday 28th November. Though this is an establishment almost on my doorstep, I had not previously visited it.



Admittedly, it was a very busy day though management planning can cope with that. We ordered food. 45 minutes later we returned to the bar to ask if there was any news of our meal. The food after all was mass produced and simply needed to be deep fried. (I was having scampi and chips.) We were informed that the kitchen was about to make our meal. Five minutes later, it arrived.

The food was okay though the mushy peas were at best warm. I suspect they had been left standing during the 45 minutes nothing was happening to the scampi. Alas, I won't be rushing back to the Waggon Team.