French and Grace. Fuck. Yes.

French and Grace located in Brixton Village is a bit of a mixed bag of middle eastern and british ideas. Flatbread wraps, salads, coffee, brownies, bloody marys.. and i fucking loved it.

I went for the special on the menu which was harissa baked beans with feta, fried egg and i added chorizo which was totally necessary. It came with a perfect amount of toast and really was all very lovely, the egg was runny, the chorizo was incredible and not chewy as it can be, beans were great but it could have done with a little more feta. I will now always put harissa in my home made baked beans as it's fucking awesome.

 I had a soy flat white that was a little too frothy and not very pretty too look at but was incredibly good quality coffee (Volcano coffee), i also had a harissa bloody mary that came complete with a little pepper and fantastic. I think i had a bit of a spicy/tomato/harissa overload with everything i had but it was awesome none the less. I reckon this place will become a favourite of mine and can't wait to go back, can't believe i only just found out about it!

Go there. Now.

Everyone likes a rating of 5 for food hygiene. 

A little frothy for a flat white and the appearance was left to be desired, but the coffee is fantastic so who cares.

Drinks.

Special: Harissa baked beans w/ feta, fried egg and added chorizo.

Amazing. Only complaint (which is me being picky) is that it could have had more feta.

Harissa bloody mary. 

https://twitter.com/frenchandgrace

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Burgers at The Ship Wandsworth

The Ship in Wandsworth does have a great name for itself as a restaurant and pub. I've had dinner there before around christmas time and it was really amazing, little salty at times but all round very good. 

I've read a lot about about their burgers so a friend and i thought we'd come down for lunch. We opted to sit outside, which to be honest kinda sucks as the view and the surrounding area is quite the opposite of the word chic. 

So the routine when you're sitting outside (maybe inside too during the day) is that you receive a text when your foods ready and you go pick it up yourself. My pal had a pulled pork bun, first of all he was impressed by the amount of pulled pork and also how juicy and soft the meat was although he wasn't sure about whatever sauce was used. In his words "I think everythings nice" so we cant really trust him, but it looked alright.  As for the burger, i've seen a certain burger blogger give it 4 out of 5 stars, so i was thinking.. fuck yeah! this'll be awesome. Unfortunately not, fries were over salted and i couldn't finish them, the bun was quite dry but mainly on one side, there wasn't enough sauce, the bottom of the bun was insanely greasy as if it has been placed in a puddle of grease on a board, the meat around the edge was dry, the burger slightly over cooked and personally i just don't think raw onion belongs in a burger, i find it overpowering and unsuitable for a burger, as for the cheese it was insanely rich and gave the impression of some processed hell slice you'd find stuck to the back of your fridge on a drunken 4am fridge hunt. Both were about £12 with fries and honestly not really worth it, this place is in a bit of a shit location so unless you live local i'd avoid lunch and stick to dinner. 

Want a better burger where you don't need to travel too far then go to Byron, want a great pub dinner around Wandsworth then go to The Ship.

Idiot

Absolute fuckeries will take place here i can imagine. Beautiful.

Pulled pork with red onion. Fairly large amount of pork.

Cheese burger with pickled cucumber and really fucking salty fries. (couldn't even finish them)

Pickled cucumbers seemed a little old and not very fresh.

Rad.

www.theship.co.uk

@shipwandsworth

Birdhouse cafe - St John's Hill.

Birdhouse on St Johns Hill in Clapham junction is pretty cute. Brunchy menu items with a selections of bocaditos (Cuban sandwiches). I went for the pulled pork beans on toast and added a slow cooked egg as a side. The process of a slow cooked egg is quite long from what i know, its cooked in the shell on a low eat in a water bath so that the egg is cooked evenly and it's then cracked which leave's what looks like a shitty poached egg with uncooked whites. It's actually really lovely, all evenly cooked and incredibly smooth when popped. The beans looked really dry but they actually weren't at all and there was a butt load of pulled pork running all through it, my only issue was the lack of seasoning and the quality of the bread. Possibly the edition of crushed crackling for texture and saltiness and maybe a thick piece of really great quality sourdough would have made this breakfast perfect. Ignoring that, it was all very nice! I enjoyed this with a soy flat white. (coffee = www.climpsonandsons.com).

I liked the decor, the staff seemed cool, it had a relaxed vibe, it's cheap, the coffee's good & they have wifi. Check it out.

Ok.

Cute.

Digging the water bottles.

Pulled pork baked beans on toast with a slow cooked egg as a side.

If you were to post it on instagram, it might look like this.

She undercharged me, awk. (That's not cocaine)

You should probably go, it's better than Ben's Canteen.

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KOYA

Koya on frith street, Soho is pretty awesome. Classic Japanese udon noodles, with hot & cold options and a large range of specials that cross the line from japanese to english.

Koya recently got a mention from chef David Chang in Lucky Peach as one of his favourite places to go when in london, which is a pretty big deal.

I thoroughly enjoyed everything i had apart from the pickled cabbage with bergamot (i ordered pickles and they had none, this was the special on), i can safely say that this was the most disgusting thing i have ever eaten in my entire life. Slimy and revolting.

Stick to the noodles i say!

Koya.

Koya bar (next door)

I started eating pretty much everything before i took a photo. Pork belly cooked in stout and honey with the strongest mustard i've ever had.

Fish tempura, little dull but was still nice none the less.

Emily refused to ask for a fork, i dont even know if they have forks. 

The worst thing i've ever put in my mouth. lol.

oh god.

Beef Atsu-Atsu hot udon in hot broth.

Same again but with duck, only 3 small pieces along with what i think were 3 pork balls. I think...

Definitely will be going here again for my udon fix.

http://www.koya.co.uk/

Ben's Canteen

Ben's Canteen on St Johns Hill in Clapham is usually heaving most days and most definitely every weekend. You'd reckon that was the case because of their amazing food or maybe it's just the fact Gordon Ramsay has been seen eating there a few times, who knows why.. because it sucks..

It was saturday about 11am and the inside of my head resembled the day after a Michael Barrymore pool party. My friend's are i weren't feeling good and needed booze & food ASAP on this wonderfully sunny day. We only waited about 20 minutes for a table and were seen to quite quickly about drinks, which unfortunately were forgotten about, 15 minutes later they arrived (a pint & a bloody mary). 

So lets get to the food, as far as the burgers went the beef, pork & chicken were juicy, the coleslaw inside the burgers was overloaded with mustard making the whole burger taste of mustard, no one enjoyed it and the sweet potato chips were a little sparse.  I ordered sweetcorn fritters with a poached egg as a side, the bacon was like rubber and the fritters were still raw and i couldn't finish them, they tasted of nothing but pancake batter with lumps of sweetcorn in them. I dont know where they get their eggs from but they're very average and tasteless, when other cafes use eggs like Burford Brown and other great quality eggs you'd think somewhere like Ben's Canteen would source their ingredients with a little more passion, it sets you apart from any old 'caff'.

All in all, disappointing. My fritters were free thank fuck.

Chicken Burger.

Pulled pork burger. (Just stick the fucking pickle inside)

Cheeseburger.

Sweet potato chips.

Sweetcorn fritters.

Shitty egg with basically no yolk.