The Best and Cheapest Food in SE1

Curious what there is out there for a poor student!

Do you mean food as in supermarket shopping or food as in eating out?

lidls..or perhaps pie and mash?

You're a student, you have plenty of spare time yes? Get some exercise - walk to Chapel Market, N1 (it's near Angel, a pleasant half hour dander from Blackfriars Bridge), work up an appetite, and have all the vegetarian curry you can eat for £3.25.

Apologies for my ongoing evangelism for this magical little place :)

Otherwise, find a friend and go to Wetherspoons during 2 meals for the price of 1 hours. Tower Bridge is my preferred one (as it's non smoking) but the E&C one is OK too.

Tai Tip Mein at E&C does large bowls of soup noodles as well as large plates of stir fried noodles or rice for £4.

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James Hatts wrote:

Do you mean food as in supermarket shopping or food as in eating out?

- Both!

beingjdc wrote:

Get some exercise - walk to Chapel Market, N1 (it's near Angel, a pleasant half hour dander from Blackfriars Bridge), work up an appetite, and have all the vegetarian curry you can eat for £3.25.

- Whoa! I'll definitely keep an eye out for this one!

juanita wrote:

Tai Tip Mein at E&C does large bowls of soup noodles as well as large plates of stir fried noodles or rice for £4.

- Nice. Thanks for that.

sfujimoto wrote:

beingjdc wrote:

Get some exercise - walk to Chapel Market, N1 (it's near Angel, a pleasant half hour dander from Blackfriars Bridge), work up an appetite, and have all the vegetarian curry you can eat for £3.25.

- Whoa! I'll definitely keep an eye out for this one!

http://www.vegguide.org/vendor/view.html?vendor_id=1274

We went to the Bhel Poori House in Chapel Market the other day. Drank a lot of beer (which you help yourself from the fridge) and still the bill was tiny - probably less than going to a pub. Food was good and definitely worth the money.
Locally I would recommend Suchards (thai in london bridge) , Ruby Marsh, Inshoku, Masters fish and chips and the chains like wagamma, The Real Greek or Nandos - all next to the globe.

>poor student

So you have time on your hands, and not much cash. So learn to cook properly. Can you grow your own vegetables - herbs in a window box? Make your own pastry, bread. Cook cheap cuts of meat - liver, kidney, heart, tripe, trotters, shin. Make stock from the bones and thus soup.

Read 'Nose to Tail Eating' to learn how Fergus Henderson created a whole restaurant serving cheap unloved cuts.

Try Cafe Rossi (at Borough High St opposite NatWest), Brittania (next to Kipling Estate)and Sanh Hing (Tower Bridge Rd- cheaper than the branch at Borough High St, opposite Sainsbury). You can find a good meal for around £4 if not less. If you have a travel card, hop in the 10 mins train to Charing Cross which takes you to Chinatown. All those chinese bakeries won't cost you more than £1.50 for 3 large buns (large selection of fillings). I'm a big eater but my colleagues reckon 2 buns are more than enough. There is also a very good and reasonably priced Malaysian restaurant called 'tuk tuk' next to Admiral Duncan (a pub painted in pink). Everyone knows where Admiral Duncan is.