In need of a quick pre-event bite, the thrill of a first to review led us here. An empty restaurant…read moreon a relatively busy street nearly turned us away, but for the sake of the yelping public (and my hanger) I'm thankful we persisted. While my sweet and sour chicken was gasping for its last cluck under a sea of sauce, the flavour did touch all four corners of perfection for delicious Thai food (hot, sour, sweet and salty). With big chunky pieces of white meat chicken along with fresh, crisp veggies and juicy pineapple, let's just say there wasn't much complaining between the time the chopsticks tucked into the container and when they hit my mouth. We were also completely impressed with the pad thai testing staple! As others pointed out, the noodles had that 'tomato-y' flavour, where the fish sauce, soy sauce chili and lime seem to magically blend into a new sauce all together, almost more like tamarind than tomato, but in the same fruity, sour, date-ish flavour. All in all, this is a YES for a cheap, cheerful and quick take-away bite.

This is my favourite Thai in London. This is proper Thai…read morehome cooking. Absolutely fantastic The Thai salads are amazing. added bonus: no corkage charge for BYO

Apparently the biggest pop act ,Taylor swift , made an appearance here . Owner holds that dearly to…read morehis heart, flaunting it at every corner of his pita shoppe And this is what apparently this place is and will be known for, because the food is absolute rubbish. In fact, I have never had a gyro pita sandwich of this catastrophic magnitude in the United States . The owner clearly is overcompensating for something. The owner should focus more on what matters : his product. He relies too heavily on what blessed his sorry falafel. smuch so, he thinks his food is good; rather realizing he got such a lucky break, I'd submit is undeserved. The gyro meat was grey and undercooked. Allegedly supposed to be lamb, but it tasted like vegan meat. Plus it had no flavor. The pita wasn't toasted properly, the veggie ingredients were tossed haphazardly on. Everything was super dry. Very little sauce or anything to help out the heap of mess. My friend ordered chips. It had a fly in it. Strong 1/5 . I struggle to find any redeeming value here other than something that is irrelevant to the product.

Came here after seeing that it's my favorite singer's favorite kebab shop. The server was friendly…read moreand happily heated up the doner kebab to make my meal. Overall, the food was pretty good, with the meat being quite flavorful and not too dry. I wouldn't say it's the best kebab I've ever had, but it definitely didn't disappoint.

Fried chicken is the ultimate filthy, artery clogging, amazingly tasty pick up takeaway in London…read more Simply being in one of these places post 12am on a weekend makes me want to bathe. Yet trundling down Kentish Town Road today I noticed the swishiest, cleanest and most upmarket fried chicken shop I have ever seen. Take a bow Sam's. I almost wanted to smarten up my appearance to go in. Looking a little like a classic McDonalds establishment, it was light years away from the grotty, sticky outlets I frequent when I've only got £2.50 in my wallet. It is amazing how smart décor can affect the mindset of a customer. I convinced myself that fried chicken was suddenly healthy. All that saturated fat suddenly didn't matter. I had to purchase something. The shock factor continued. It was incredibly cheap. How about this? Two chicken fillet burgers, four pieces of chicken and two lots of fries for... (I must pause here for effect... Just a little more! All the above came to a credit crunch defying £5.99. AWESOME! This smart outlet, with ludicrously cheap prices, serving the same old stroke inducing but oh so good greasy chicken we all love, is a winner.

It seems everyone is talking about fried Chicken shops these days. The way these purveyors of…read morecrispy hot poultry have taken over the rougher parts of high streets over the past decade - pushing out the traditional chippy - has been either lamented or applauded (depending on your tastes). I believe there is always a place for this type of basic grub, and Sam's is one of the better examples. The shop itself is light, clean and modern and while the chicken won't win any awards, it is passable and ludicrously cheap. This is a great place to visit pre or post a gig at the HMV forum, or for when that post work drink turned into five. I have no doubt I'll be asking Sam to sort me out again very soon.

So at the moment I'm obsessed with Chicken and Sweetcorn Soup. Don't ask me why, but I'm hooked. It…read moremight be this weather, or my general boredom, but I have taken it upon myself to find the perfect Chicken and Sweetcorn Soup in London. Sun Hin is one of those generic suburban Chinese Take-Away shops. You know, the ones with just a bench inside to sit in while you wait, hand-written signs proclaiming '10 spring rolls for £1.80' and fake potted plants. But somehow I totally love it. With a huge menu of all things Chinese, Sun Hin also does lots of veggie and seafood dishes - they also do faux-chicken and lamb dishes, which I haven't tried but am guessing might be akin to Quorn products. Micro-proteins galore. Clearly family-run, Sun Hin is cheap, dirty and fabulous. Just the way I like my Chinese.

I don't care what anyone says, this is the best Chinese take away. I've been ordering from these…read moreguys for over 20 years and the quality has never dropped. I've lived in a lot of different areas of London in that time and I've never found anywhere close to being as good. They don't offer deliver because they don't have to, there that popular. Ask anyone who knows Kentish Town and they would agree it's the best. The potions are massive and the the quality is good.

What's up with the Chinese food in this city?…read more In need for a good (Chinese) take-away in a 1-mile radius around my home, I've decided to try out one small business after the other: Jacks Kitchen was No.1 on my list, but as it turns out will not be the no.1 when it comes to good-tasting food! I have to say, the service at this little whole-in-the-wall in Tufnell Park was promisingly nice and very efficient. They accommodated mu special orders and finished my order quickly. However, the vegetables in my dish were not cooked through and overall the dishes were too oily (a very common deficiency in many Chinese take-away places!). Also, I had ordered the dumplings, which were supposed to be grilled, however, as it turns out, they just put them in the wok with a giant splash of oil...not so nice. Anyway, as much as I enjoyed the speedy and courteous experience. the overall result won't make me want to come back again...

I agree with Uli B. Chinese food around here is diabolical. I've tried quite a few greasy cess pool…read moretype Chinese takeaways and I had all but given up on ordering Chinese. But one late night finishing work I was cycling home in the freezing cold and I for some reason decided I really wanted hot and sour soup. When I got in I searched my takeaway/man draw of shite like the pregnant craving woman I was clearly becoming and found a menu for jacks. My initial thoughts were looks a bit cheap! But I thought sod it I'll give it a go. Well I'm glad I did. The guy on the phone was really friendly and delivery was only 20 mins. The food was good, by no way great but by far the best I've had around this area! Maybe I'm rating it a bit high but when your choices locally are so slim this is a diamond in the rough. I have always began my rating of how good a Chinese is by the standard of their hot and sour and jacks was delicious and nice and hot, not too much chicken skin you get in some nasty joints. The kung po chicken was nice and sticky with a lovely sweet but spicy glaze on it. And the egg fried rice wasn't bad either. Overall a pleasant meal and good value too. I will probably order again when my next craving takes hold. Also if I come out at tuffy park tube I will prob get some hot and sour to take home.

This London chain was recommended to us by our friends who are longtime UK residents. We figured we…read morehad to try proper British fish and chips after tasting a couple of so-so meals. Poppies seemed like the perfect iconic choice with its old-school North London charm and 1940-50s repurposed memorabilia which feels like stepping back in time. The servers were attentive right from the start. We were pleasantly surprised when our food arrived quickly as everything was out within 10-minutes, piping hot and freshly cooked. My wife and I shared the classic cod fish and chips 4/5. The portion was decent, the fish was flaky inside with a nice crispy batter, and the chips were golden and tasty - nothing greasy, which was a plus. Loved the capped mini-cup of tartar sauce. This came with a side salad with crispy vegetables and creamy honey-mustard sauce. We stuck to the timeless Caramel Sticky Toffee Pudding (with a scoop of ice cream) smothered with warm sauce. The dollop of vanilla fused with the sponge cake & the buttery toffee sauce did it for us. Simple, comforting, and very British! Overall, Poppies delivered an authentic experience - great service, quick food, and that nostalgic atmosphere. We recommend it, especially if you're after a classic London chippy vibe without any fuss.

Poppies is a chain fish and chips restaurant in London. Recommended by our UK local friends to try…read more Indeed it was good. Had one of the best sticky toffee pudding ever. We ordered the fish (haddock) (they ran out of the cod) and chips ( requested for a crispy one). Came in at almost 8pm and was seated right away. The area was by Camden, not so safe feel but everything was good. This was the closest to our hotel. The restaurant has a diner feel. Service was quick and staff were attentive and nice. Ordered the house salad as well.

They got our order wrong. The service was not great and the food was worse then at any other…read moremcdonalds i have been before. Could improve!!

Inside each and every one of us there is a naughty little fat person. This naughty person reaches…read moreup into our brain and gives our hypothalamus a squeeze to let us know we are hungry. We appease the little guy by giving him food. Every once in a while he gets stressed with life and stomps around the entire limbic system causing us confusion. This confusion leads to an unbearable longing to gorge ourselves on McDonalds. Fight it we may but eventually we succumb to the lure of the golden arches. We have all heard the stories, watched the film and felt sick after eating too many Big Macs, (four in one sitting is my record) but we still go back. McDonalds have stayed popular by opening trendy new stores (or renovating old ones), offering "healthy" salads that are dripping with dressing, and sponsoring health campaigns on TV. Try as they might with this push to be healthy, we see the truth and so do they. We want burgers and fried potato. We want Big Macs lathered in cheese, and fries floundering in salt. We have all complained about McDonalds at some point. I've made up stories that there meat is from green space whales reared on Mars. Yet the burger joint we love to hate is still going strong. My only gripe is that when I order a large portion of their lovely fries, I want my eyes to bulge at the sheer size of the offering. When I can clasp the paltry amount of skimpy, shaped potatoes in one hand, you are going to have a disappointed customer. McDonalds is never going to blow us away, but you always know what you are going to get.

One of the best Indian places I've tried. The food is so fresh and delicious. It's also…read moreridiculously affordable. They people are quite friendly, and the take-away service is speedy. I recommend the biryani dishes with their homemade curry sauce. Just writing this review makes me hungry for some New Didar Tandoori food!!!

Perfectly good food here at reasonable prices. The main business seems to be takeaway meals and the…read moredining tables were mostly empty but delivery drivers were coming and going frequently. Not peaceful fine dining but good for an informal Indian meal.

Perfectly fine if you are considering a sweet & sour pork. Guilty pleasure and may return if no…read moreother options. And look forward to that day.

After a day of talking on the phone nonstop, I just wanted to escape the house and get some good…read morefood. I had walked by this little place many times and always wondered if it were any good...well today was the day to give it actually a try...and boy am I glad I did!!! The Today's special sign on the street had actually lured me in: Vegetable Moussaka. I figured, since I make the best meat moussaka in the whole wide world, I might as well get inspired by some vegetable moussaka...and boy did I get inspired!!! There were only a few other customers in the restaurant and I thus had the waiter's full attention. In fact, the service that I received here was so attentive and so friendly that even a high-end restaurant could learn from them: the waiter changed the cutlery, refilled my water, served the plate facing the right way, offered condiments...etc. But I am digressing...anyway, I ordered the Tabbouleh Salad as a starter and that was already pretty awesome. I mean, it's a rather standard dish, yet the ingredients were well balanced: it had a nice zest to it and the pita bread that was served with it was smooth and delicious. Then I got my moussaka...and believe me I prayed for it to be as good as the previous experience...and boy did my prayers work! Seriously, the moussaka was the best I've ever had (aside from my meat moussaka, of course). The eggplant was melting on my tongue and the bechamel/cheese sauce was heavenly as well. The waiter offered my some chilli-sauce on the side, which I happily stirred into my rice - and I had yet to experience yet another culinary climax! Well, sitting there all by myself, I had also the leisure of watching the waiter prepare a couple of coffee drinks. And I was positively surprised has how well he prepared the Latte Macchiato...very carefully did he first pour steamed hot milk, topped it off with some foam and only then did he actually - very carefully - pour the espresso into the glass; the end-result was a perfectly three-tiered Latte - the way it is supposed to be served if I were to rule the world. (Only the straw was missing!) Alright, enough said...but just to reemphasise how much I liked this restaurant: my throbbing headache, which I suffered from upon entering the establishment, had vanished by the time the check came...a mere £10.90! ...boy am I glad I came here!!!

Like many things in life ( for example; exam results, birthday presents, the contents of a sharks…read morestomach) Turkish food can either be really really good, or really really bad. There is always that element of risk, seemingly more so the further away you go from Dalston. It's always a lovely surprise therefore when you find a really high quality and innovative Turkish menu in the depths of North London. The Adana wrap is delicious. Sometimes pita bread is too much! A lighter surrounding makes the whole thing more moreish. I could literally eat about five. The service is friendly and warm, and there is a good range of specials at reasonable prices. The decor isn't too bad either. Although still not up to some of the legendary Dalston Turkish grills, this is still a surpisingly good restaurant in a surprising location. Do not underestimate the power of the Adana wrap.