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Uusally it's the London Bridge station area that an annual "where's good to eat" thread all of it's own. Must be the anonymity, windblown and transient nature of anywhere with 3M people passing through daily.


But I'd like any similar suggestions of where's decent (informal is fine) to eat near Waterloo...avoiding south bank and Wahacha I'm pretty much open to anything else.....any ideas?

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I was also going to mention Masters Super Fish!


I know Anchor and Hope is supposed to be great, but there has always been queues when I've tried to go, which is a bit of a turn-off for me. Maybe it's calmed down a bit?


I found the food at the Young Vic bar very acceptable..

I must be a basic bloke because when I know I'm out in Waterloo and will need to eat, Marie's Cafe on the Cut figures first every time. It's a greasy cafe by day and the last few years exclusively Thai food by evening (Thought they do a set 2-3 Thais dishes during the day, too).

May not be glam enough tho - certainly informal.

BYO.

KidKruger Wrote:

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> I must be a basic bloke because when I know I'm

> out in Waterloo and will need to eat, Marie's Cafe

> on the Cut figures first every time. It's a

> greasy cafe by day and the last few years

> exclusively Thai food by evening (Thought they do

> a set 2-3 Thais dishes during the day, too).

> May not be glam enough tho - certainly informal.

> BYO.



Blimey, had forgotten all about that place, haven't been there for years.


If memory serves, for some reason they showed me some large cooking thing and explained how they made their rice in it. Can that be right?!

Someone said Kings Arms for Thai....but the problem with that is that on weekdays its rammed and not the sort of place you'd want to eat unless you like bum in your face. Weekends its nice and quiet. A total opposite to the trading pattern at pubs in the burbs.


Will skip the tapas because back in SE22/15 we now have about 5 tapas places up and running (its the new pizza) I spent Friday in that new one off Rye Lane... its only a spit from the Refreshment rooms... so my padron pepper quota for 2015 is now complete.

I didn't know Marie's cafe was open in the evenings. I remember about twenty years ago working nearby and going there for lunch pretty much every day for a month. They always did one curry, one stir fry dish and one noodle dish every lunch time, and once a week I'd mix it up and have bacon egg and chips instead. Happy days.


PS I think it's on Lower Marsh, not the Cut.

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