FM TM: Looks like Cafe Oto has some great stuff on around that time: Keiji Haino, MIKE (if your kid is into hiphop, saw him here recently and was a very ebullient show), Evan Parker at 80, The Necks, James Blood Ulmer in late-April, etc.

https://www.cafeoto.co.uk/events/

And for the love of Christ take off your backpack on a crowded Tube

Ddbl pst

speedie wrote: Fri Feb 09, 2024 12:39 am

eephus wrote: Tue Feb 06, 2024 2:50 pm

Right now we're staying in Shoreditch/Spitalfields; let me know if any other notions among the hive mind.

If you're staying in Shoreditch, get thee to Brick Lane and eat all the curry!

FMs Speedie and TM, don’t do this! Brick Lane’s restaurants are universally terrible. Very nearby is the Lahore Kebab House which is way better and cheap as heck. Or, if you fancy something a little less basic, Tayyabs on Fieldgate st is an institution

sparky wrote: Fri Feb 09, 2024 3:30 pm Lahore Kebab House

The best food anywhere.

Thanks everyone! let me have it if anything else comes to mind. will compile all of this.

I'm slotting in right between that stuff at Cafe Oto...oh well.

A_Man_Who_Tries wrote:

sparky wrote: Fri Feb 09, 2024 3:30 pm Lahore Kebab House

The best food anywhere.

Noted...

If you’ve got time and love Turkish food the area around Green Lanes is fantastic. It’s not that far from central London.

https://londonist.com/london/food/best- ... nes-london

This is a little old so check the restaurants first.

My favourite.
https://antepliler.com/antepliler-menu/
We meet Turkish friends there a lot.

Oh… and anyone coming to London should check out.
www.londonist.com

That What to do this Week in London is a newsletter I live by.

Jay Foreman (and Map Men) has great videos about London and it's infrastructure:

Only been there once, it was not crap.

I've been a resident for 35 years now (albeit out in suburbia for the last 10). For sure, it has many of the same problems as other large cities do (size, expense, over-crowded / under-funded hospitals and transport networks, crime etc) - but I still can't think of anywhere else in the UK where I'd rather live.

Practically every interest is catered for here - loads of good venues, cinemas, pubs and restaurants. If the long commute into St.Pancras sometimes tired me out there are plenty of green spaces such as Putney Heath or Wimbledon Common where I can go walking on my days off and temporarily forget that I'm living in a city for just long enough to decompress. North London is pretty well served in that respect too with Hampstead Heath, Clissold Park and all the others.

Also, we get summers. If we're lucky.

Gramsci wrote: Sat Feb 10, 2024 11:56 am If you’ve got time and love Turkish food the area around Green Lanes is fantastic. It’s not that far from central London.

https://londonist.com/london/food/best- ... nes-london

This is a little old so check the restaurants first.

My favourite.
https://antepliler.com/antepliler-menu/
We meet Turkish friends there a lot.

I lived in various addresses along Green Lanes in the 90s. I still go there to eat out on occasion too. Like you say the Turkish restaurants are ubiquitous and of good quality. It's become a tad more expensive to live around there than it was 25-30 years back though, to say the least.