London Food - What’s The Go?
While I was in London, most of my main meals were eaten at Aylin’s parents place (damn fine home cooking!) so I didn’t really get to venture out to lots of restaurants as such.
When we did go looking for food, it was fairly expensive - although that was mostly due to the exchange rate between the Aussie dollar & the pound! Not a pretty picture at the best of times, I’m afraid, so I just resigned myself to paying twice as much as I would be back home.
However, there were a few good places we ate at that are worth checking out.
Firstly, there’s JD Wetherspoons - a chain pub - where we had a very tasty and great priced lunch. In fact, we went to 2 different wetherspoons in a week and they both had good food and very reasonable prices. Of course, nothing flash - it’s pub food, NOT Gordon Ramsay’s… but definitely earned a few brownie points from yours truly.
We also went into Selfridges to their cafe and enjoyed corned beef sandwiches one day. A favourite childhood memory for Aylin (her dad used to take them there for lunch as a treat), so off we toddled to check the place out. The food was tasty. Prices were OK, but the actual department store itself was GREAT!
Apparently Selfridges is one of the largest (or is it oldest? I forget) dept store chains in the world, from memory, and you can bet we don’t have anything even vaguely like them in Perth. Myer and David Jones would be swallowed up by this grand old father of the UK retail market.
I’ll tell you about the Vegas display they were running while we were there another time but suffice it to say I have some …”fun” pictures for you 
If you’re on a budget while in London, then you’ll need to exercise a little caution with your food. I suggest you buy stuff from a supermarket and prepare it yourself when possible. Every tourist attraction you go to sells food and drinks but at an exhorbitant price, so be pre-prepared and save big!
If you don’t have access to cooking facilities, and don’t expect 5 Star dining, then definitely check out Wetherspoons. Also, all your typical fast food places like McDonalds, KFC and so forth are available.
On the other hand, if you’ve got plenty of brass in your pocket, then go check out some of London’s best restaurants, including Gordon Ramsay’s London restaurant, or choose from this list of my recommendations for London’s top 5 restaurants (which does include Restaurant Gordon Ramsay.)
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