Tower Hamlets
Caffe-in

Caffe-in

334 Hackney Doad, E2 7AX, Tower Hamlets, United Kingdom

Cafe • Cafés • Vegan • British


"I went to have breakfast after the flower market on a Sunday morning. I was looking for somewhere to sit and it was suggested that I should eat off of the (sloping lid of an upright piano. Purlease. I shared a table with some nice ladies. I ordered eggs florentine. Eggs florentine is a classic recipe you don 't buggar about with it. It came with a few raw spinach leaves. I remonstrated that eggs florentine was a classic dish involving cooked spinach. (Obviously one advantage of serving the spinach raw is that you have to provide much less of it . I was told that they were unable to cook the spinach(! . I was referred to the menu which said spinach as though thad had alerted me to the fact that it would be raw. I suggested that if you want to depart from a classic recipe, then you should say so on the menu. I didn 't want the nouveau eggs florentine. My blood was up. I left £3.50 for a £2.50 coffee on the table. I said, as I was leaving, that I had left money on the table. All the waitress could say was payment is at the counter . It 's just all rubbish. At the point I left, the only other people there were the two nice ladies. Was it too much to scoop up the price of the coffee plus (if I may say, in the circumstances, generous tip from the table? Are there hipsters out there who want to eat breakfast on a Sunday morning off the lid of an upright piano? Good luck to you. There 's a point where bohemian morphs into ropey."

Partridges Of Sloane Square

Partridges Of Sloane Square

2-5 Duke Of York Square, Tower Hamlets, United Kingdom, SW3 4LY

Tea • Coffee • Terrace • Sandwiches


"Came here for breakfast which wasn’t bad. Great to sit and people watch during the Saturday markets. The peppermint tea was good. When I asked the skinny Indian waiter with spectacles for the brand name, he said he didn’t know and told me to just go inside and I would find it because according to him, they sell everything they serve. My husband asked for the bill, he brought it over and it was paid by card. This same waiter then just stood there looking at the bill folder to pressure my husband to leave a tip!!! Terrible behaviour!!! My husband then put over £2 and when we stood up to go inside to buy our groceries, I again tried to ask what brand I should be looking for inside. The waiter just couldn’t be bothered to check and then my husband tried to ask him how we would find out which brand it is. The waiter merely shrugged and couldn’t be bothered. Then his colleague, another waitress came out and said loudly and protectively to us, “What’s wrong?!” as if we had been abusing the waiter!! It was bizarre! Then when we explained and asked her for the brand name of the tea, guess what she said?! They don’t even sell that brand inside Partridges but to order it online! At this stage, it was obvious why she was protective of the waiter he had obviously been lackadaisical or stupid like this with other customers before! How ridiculous! Not a terrible experience, just a stupid one!!!"

Fatboy's Diner

Fatboy's Diner

Trinity Buoy Wharf, E14, Tower Hamlets, United Kingdom

Diners • Coffee • Cheese • Burgers


"I ate here a afternoon last month, while I stayed in london on the novotel on canary wharf. I had seen this place that was introduced on a TV program. it looked like to be in a very interesting environment and I like this style. of space. as I said that I was on canary wharf and it was actually a very simple trip with two busses to just a few hundred meters from the entrance to the trinity buoy wharf where the diner is located. this whole area is another where there is a large amount of development with the construction of apartment blocks. the wharf himself has seen the development with several units that are now working as small companies. the other feature worth mentioning is the excellent view from the wharf of the o2 arena opposite and the huge cloud scratches of canary wharf in the middle distance. so diner itself and it is really a great place to eat. I don't know if it's an original or a reconstruction, but it's an American diner of 60 years that they see in films and photos of this epoche. the menu is quite extensive and is naturally centered around the ubiquitous burger, but there are many other possibilities, including salads for the healthy food! there are also breakfast options. a burger was just good for me and I chose one with cheese and speck along with the usual other circumcisions and fillings. a very large part of the delicious pommes accompanied it. to complete the true American style, I had a beautiful milkshake with it. the food came in good time and it was a pleasure to eat while the look at the view. they can even see the cable car ride that passes very close over the themses. I finished with a beautiful cappuccino and the whole bill I thought was very reasonable. I can highly recommend this place if they like this style of restaurant and I really hope to go back a day."

Sinh Le

Sinh Le

41 Mile End Rd, E1 4TP, Tower Hamlets, United Kingdom

Kebab • Sushi • Seafood • Asiatic


"We've been to sinh le a few times before, and generally there only been about 2 or 3 other tables in use despite being a large restaurant. However this year we came for valentines and almost every table was surprisingly full. The staff were fairly rude from the offset, but I brushed it off as they were clearly overworked: 3 waitresses to dozens of tables. However they really didn't seem to care or listen to us. My girlfriend asked questions about a couple of dishes and got vague uninformative answers, fairly standard. But then I explained we'd share a starter and then told them what we'd like for main course. What we got though is the starter and one of the mains at the same time. So, we shared the starter and I watched my girlfriend start to eat her main. But then it turned out agree really didn't like it, it tasted like a tinned soup. So to avoid any issues for the restaurant I asked the waitress visiting our table for another main to go with my remaining main. This way I pay extra for a meal we ordered but didn't like and get to eat together. But alas the issues were only just beginning. We waited and another waitress came to confirm the extra order. They thought I didn't realise I had a main coming (still strange to me that they thought I'd eat alone) so asked what I had coming and what what I wanted. I confirmed. Then after an hour we got our food, both mains were wrong. We were already a bit fed up, I wasn't prepared to wait another hour, so we decided we'd just eat the different food. Although after a few bites we realised we really didn't like these meals. I decided to just ask for the bill and to take the rest of the food home. The waitress came back, dunked a single small microwave container on the take and walked away... She expected us to transfer the food to the container ourselves... The container wasn't even big enough for all the food. I had to ask again for the bill, though at this point I was trebled to just walk out, completely ruined valentines experience. Wet finally got the bill and they'd put a service charge on the bill. I'm willing to pay for did I didn't order and a meal that I didn't enjoy but I'm not rewarding you for your services when you are rude to us even before we place an order. Ignore us when we need service and screw up not one but two meal orders. Then expect us to transfer our own food (that we didn't even really want) to doggie bags. On the way home wet popped into co-op and made ourselves a soup with chicken breast. Do not go here if it's busy."

Kolaphata

Kolaphata

222 Whitechapel Road, E1 1BJ, Tower Hamlets, United Kingdom

Meat • Asian • Halal • Lunch


"I’ve heard about and seen Kolapata restaurant on many occasions so I finally decided to try it for myself with a friend joining me. We started off with a Kolapata mix grill which comes with lamb chops, chicken tikka and sheek kebab, the chops were average at best very lightly spiced and quite tough to chew on, the sheek kebabs were frozen supermarket kebabs and the chicken tikka had no spice at all. The chicken tikka was precooked and reheated in the microwave, it was rock solid and bone dry with zero flavour it was so bad in fact that we sent it back and replaced it for another piece of sheek kebab instead. We ordered a Kacchi biryani, Shoreesha Ilish and chicken roast for mains with a mix bhorta. The kacchi biryani was overloaded with raisins or sultanas, it came with two pieces of meat on the bone which had barely any meat on, the biryani was served with a egg korma which was hideous it had sour notes to it and tasted off again this was pre cooked and reheated. The chicken roast was average and the shoreesha ilish was average too these two products would get 3/5 but the mix grill would get 1/5 starts and the biryani 2/5. Service was ok 3/5. I would avoid this place and try somewhere else on Whitechapel road as there are so many Bengali restaurants in that vicinity, I would hazard a guess that this place was good in its heyday and it’s just surviving on its name now."