My trip to London: food
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wyvernfriendsome minor notes
Pret a Manger do naked sandwiches, no bread, quite useful. I managed throughout the holiday to avoid getting ill, this may or may not have been helped by the fact that I was also on antihistamines all the time as well.
The hotel was adequate, nothing more, clean but the TV had about 5 channels and all of them had some interference and there was no real internet access. I piggybacked an open wireless network once during the time there. There was also no lining on the curtains so one thing we had to get were eye shields to sleep, as the light came streaming in at about 5:30. Breakfast was a choice of two cereals (neither of which was rice crispies - some sort of muesli and sugared corn flakes if you really want to know); Orange Juice; Instant very strong coffee (there was also tea offered) toast, and an English Breakfast consisting of egg, sausage, mushrooms, beans & bacon. After four days of eggs and mushrooms by 9:30 I really wanted something else. Neither of us could face breakfast by then on Sunday so we slept in and tried elsewhere, which is when we discovered Pret!
Wagamama's was twice (I happen to know they can cope with coeliacs and I'm good at reading their menus)
We went to an Indian once, the waiter didn't understand what I was talking about but when he explained to someone more senior he "got" the gluten allergy thing. The food turned out not to be good but excellent.
I'll edit this again later to add more details.
Pret a Manger do naked sandwiches, no bread, quite useful. I managed throughout the holiday to avoid getting ill, this may or may not have been helped by the fact that I was also on antihistamines all the time as well.
The hotel was adequate, nothing more, clean but the TV had about 5 channels and all of them had some interference and there was no real internet access. I piggybacked an open wireless network once during the time there. There was also no lining on the curtains so one thing we had to get were eye shields to sleep, as the light came streaming in at about 5:30. Breakfast was a choice of two cereals (neither of which was rice crispies - some sort of muesli and sugared corn flakes if you really want to know); Orange Juice; Instant very strong coffee (there was also tea offered) toast, and an English Breakfast consisting of egg, sausage, mushrooms, beans & bacon. After four days of eggs and mushrooms by 9:30 I really wanted something else. Neither of us could face breakfast by then on Sunday so we slept in and tried elsewhere, which is when we discovered Pret!
Wagamama's was twice (I happen to know they can cope with coeliacs and I'm good at reading their menus)
We went to an Indian once, the waiter didn't understand what I was talking about but when he explained to someone more senior he "got" the gluten allergy thing. The food turned out not to be good but excellent.
I'll edit this again later to add more details.
