beatnic - just wondering

To mark last week’s change of London’s Eurostar terminus from Waterloo to St Pancras here’s a photo I snapped from the bus a couple of weeks ago.

This parade of shops and restaurants is immediately opposite King’s Cross and St Pancras stations.

Sandwiched between Orlando’s Cafe and Eddie’s Fish Bar is Euro Tandoori.

As they say in Goodness Gracious Me, “Let’s go for an English!”

09:00 - 16:00

7 DAYS A WEEK

Congratulations to The Bishop, winner of Best Bar in East Dulwich 2007 as voted for by members of the East Dulwich Forum.

The results are here.

And the reaction here.

Peckham Rye Park cafe opened for business yesterday and according to these East Dulwich Forum regulars, so far so good.

I have it on good authority that the café will open on Monday 12th November.

Hooray! I met the people who’ll be running it today, they were kind enough to show me round. It looks fantastic.

The very best of luck to them :-)

It’s time for you to vote for your favourite East Dulwich bar (or pub) of the year.

There’s no criteria for voting, just your favourite drinking establishment. Imagine you left East Dulwich for a few months and then returned, where would you go for your first drink? Where have you deservedly spent rather a lot of money this year?

Vote in the East Dulwich Forum.

The Black Cherry won last year.

Watch out for…

Sunset yellow (E110) - Colouring found in squashes
Carmoisine (E122) - Red colouring in jellies
Tartrazine (E102) - New colouring in lollies, fizzy drinks
Ponceau 4R (E124) - Red colouring
Sodium benzoate (E211) - Preservative
Quinoline yellow (E104) - Food colouring
Allura red AC (E129) - Orange / red food dye

BBC NEWS | Health | Parents warned of additives link

The Herne Tavern in East Dulwich has just been ‘palmerstoned’ - good food if a bit pricey.

The garden has been landscaped in to teletubbyland.

Actually it looks pretty stunning.

And it’s 100% child-friendly - the play area’s still there.

Congratulations to my friend Jacky on going live with her Nutrition Mission website. It looks great :-)

With junk food giant visual design treatment.

Frightening food facts about what’s really on your plate. More info on the Food4Thought website.

More than one in three children do not know what chips are made of, a survey for the British Heart Foundation reveals.

A worrying 36% of 8-14 year-olds could not correctly identify the main ingredient as potato, despite chips being a firm favourite on most children’s plates.

Nearly one in ten of the 1,000 children questioned thought chips were mostly made of oil, while others suggested eggs, flour, and even apples.

From the accompanying press release.

If you’re looking for somewhere to have a cold beer or a bloody mary in East Dulwich, here’s a useful guide on the Lordship Lane page of the Open Guide to London.

The great thing about the page and the site is that if you have something you want to add or edit you can register and edit the page, as it’s running on a wiki (a collaborative web authoring and editing environment).

If you want to know what the drinking establishments look like I’ve started adding photos to my Flickr site.

Life and Times of the EDT, se22 [well spotted mr. price]

The EDT is an impressive landmark pub on the Goose Green in East Dulwich, South London. Minutes from the East Dulwich British Rail Station [10 minutes from London Bridge] - The EDT has a 1st floor restaurant, DJs on the weekends and All the things that make a ‘local’ pub great.

Makes sense to have the blog - keeping events listings and menus up to date and getting comments from punters.

The title of the blog has been - temporarily I guess - updated since I emailed them a postcode change from SW22 to SE22 :)

I haven’t been yet, but I know people who like it.

Apparently they do good pizzas upstairs.

Marylebone High Street wasabi strength chart with your take away sushi…

1. Japanese Canteen (strongest)
2. Pret a Manger
3. Tesco
4. Waitrose
5. Boots