Friday, December 21

 
London Dining on a Budget

This story from the International Herald Tribune describes the "daunting" quest to find good, inexpensive foods at London's better restaurants and profiles "Harden's Good Cheap Eats in London 2002," a London dining guide which, "while covering many of the places that are listed in London Restaurants, approaches them in a very different way, focusing on inexpensive lunch or dinner menus, giving much more detail on choosing individual dishes and wine to allow you to stay around the £20 limit." That's about US$29. Cheap, therefore, being relative. The guide's publisher does have encouraging news for people who still think the concept of good English food is an oxymoron: "When we started 11 years ago, it was universally acknowledged that eating in a pub was a grim and sad experience," Peter Harden says. "There's been such a transformation that pubs now offer some of the best cheap eats in London."
posted by Unknown 9:22 AM