Tibble’s Nibbles Lock Down Edition – Breakfasts

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Producer Stu and I talk Breakfasts! Lots of stories, recommendations and reminiscences about the most important meal of the day

Links from most of the places mentioned in the podcast can be found below:

Regency Cafe Westminster
East London Sausage Company
Eat 17 Walthamstow
City Cafe Edinbugh
Rose Cafe, Tottenham
Hawksmoor Breakfast
Scrapple
The Terrace, Finsbury Park
The Ned Breakfast
The Wollesley
The Diner
Going out for an English – sketch
Sandwich shop in Worcester – not there any more, but it was on Trinity Street. It seems to be a beauty parlour now.
Hinge & Bracket
Jimmy’s Café Walthamstow
Rosa’s Thai Cafe
Smithfield Market Breakfasts
Toby Carvery Breakfast
Laura Shutkever takes down a massive breakfast

Tibbles Nibbles Lockdown Edition – Chicken

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Producer Stu & I talk Chicken! From chicken shops to gourmet – what are your favourites? We’re particularly fans of wings, and lots of places do very good wings. If you have a favourite we haven’t tried, please let me know!

Places Mentioned in the pod:

Dixy Chicken
KFC
Chicken Liqour (Now Closed)
Chick n’ Sours
Chik’n
Nandos
Red Dog Saloon
We Serve Humans
Leyton Star
Randy’s Wings
Blues Kitchen
Wingfest (We mistakenly called it Wingstock)
Hawker House
Orange Buffalo
Colours Bar
Serious Eats Chicken Wings Recipe
Wingman

Tibbles Nibbles Lockdown Edition – Curry

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Curry is probably both mine and Stu’s favourite food and we eat it a lot. We also like to talk about it, a lot! We’re talking British Indian Curries here really; as ever, as Brits we take other people’s cuisines, bastardise it and because of the wonderful melting pot Great Britain is, create something uniquely British!

Here is the podcast of us talking curry, our favourite curries, our favourite places to go, and stories from growing up with curries as a central touchpoint to our lives.

So many places mentioned in the podcast, here they are in no particular order. Let me know if there are any places I’ve forgotten to mention.

I might have added some I forgot to mention in the podcast!

Anarkali – anarkali-worcester.co.uk
The Pasha – pashaeverest.co.uk
Ben’s Balti is now The Spice Cuisine – spicecuisineworcester.co.uk
Ashley’s now gone upmarket – https://www.ashleysrestaurant.co.uk/
Great Curry in Birmingham – https://www.alleppeyboat.co.uk/
Red Spice my favourite local takeaway – redspicecamden.co.uk
Diwana Bhel Poori House – diwanabph.com
Brilliant Southall – https://www.brilliantrestaurant.com/
Bengal Lancer, my favourite curry house in the area – http://bengallancerlondon.com/
Apollo Banana Leaf Tooting – http://apollobananaleaf.com/
Roz Ana Kingston – https://roz-ana.com/
Tayyabs – http://www.tayyabs.co.uk/
Needoo Grill – https://needoogrill.co.uk/
Al Haq’s does not have a website, but here is a Zomato link – https://www.zomato.com/london/al-haqs-walthamstow/menu
The Shirtless Chef David Templer – @temp_tation (Instagram & TikTok)

What’s your favourite curry house? What’s your favourite curry? Let me know in the comments 🙂

Tibble’s Nibbles Lockdown Edition – The Burger Episode

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I get together with my editor Stu, to talk about one of our favourite subjects, burgers!

I’m always keen to find out about and try new burger places, so please let me know in the comments below, or via facebook or twitter what your favourite places are so I can try them out once this carnage ends!

Our top 5s are in the podcast, so I won’t spoil them here, but below are the links (in no particular order) to our favourite places, including a few honourable mentions.

Lucky Chip
Burger & Beyond
Dip & Flip
5 Guys
McDonalds
Bibendum (Saturday Lunchtime only I think)
Hawksmoor
Meat Liquor
Nanny Bills
Hache Burgers
Blues Kitchen

Tibble Nibbles Episode 38 – Rajdoot Takeaway

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With the lockdown firmly in place, I decided to get a takeaway to try out some of the local offerings in my neighbourhood.

Living in central London, I’m blessed with several hundred options, even allowing for Covid-19 closures. We went with the Rajdoot in Hampstead, the most highly rated Indian Restaurant in my area. It’s certainly not the cheapest, with the food (via Deliveroo) arriving well on time.

The menu can be found here and is extensive, with not only the usual curry house staples, but also quite a few unique dishes I’ve not seen on menus before. I’ve had 3 or 4 curries here before, and I particularly remember the Goan Mixed Delight being worth a try if you fancy something a bit off the usual track.

We enjoyed the food very much, but at almost £50 for two of us for 4 poppadoms, starters, mains, one rice, one nan and a side dish it does struggle a bit in the value department. Having said that, it is in Hampstead, so maybe a bit more reasonable for those who can afford to live there!

All in all, I recommend this place as worth an order, but there are cheaper places that are almost a good if your pocket doesn’t stretch this far in these straitened times.

The food we ordered, excluding poppadoms

Tibble’s Nibbles Lockdown Edition – The Pubs Episode Part 1

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With the current lcokdown, going out to restaurants is not possible. I wish everyone the best at this super difficult time, especially the hospitality workers who make this podcast possible.

I’ve decided to shake things up a bit and add a discussion podcast this time. There will be more as the lockdown allows! I’ll also be reviewing takeaways in my area, so stay tuned for those!

First up I’ll be talking pubs with my erstwhile editor Stu, where we talk food, drink and what makes a pub a pub!

Since this is a new podcast format feedback would be great, and check out the new intro!

Music credit goes to bensound.com

Pubs mentioned in the podcast:
The Colonel Fawcett
The Vobster Inn
The Gunmakers
The Plough
The Dew Drop
The Bell
The Stapleton Arms
Kings Arms Blakeney

This is part one – we ramble more in part 2 but that will be up soon!

Podcast Episode 37 – Taste of Siam Mornington Crescent

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I’ve been going to this restaurant since I started working in central London about 10 years ago. At the time it was a shining light of quality in a sea of pretty terrible places north of Mornington Crescent Station. I used to go for the lunchtime specials, which are great value, but this time I went to try the hotpot. I’d seen people eating it many times and it looked amazing, and finally I had chance to have a go myself.