Steve's reviews
Review of The Angelic
15 Aug 07, 10:07
Comfy 
Excellent Sunday-afternoon-with-a-hangover-reading-the-papers pub, with lots of comfy sofas and decent comfort food. They also do smoothies and fresh juices, but why you'd want those in a pub I've no idea. There's some seating outside - the junction of Liverpool Road and Tolpuddle Street is hardly scenic, but it's not bad for people watching. The toilets are pretty special too, not that I'd recommend going to a pub just for the toilets.
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Review of Electrowerkz
07 Aug 07, 12:49
110% 
The 100% Dynamite reggae nights are fantastic fun.
The club itself is pretty shabby and probably hasn't changed much from its old industrial days. For drinks expect a cold can of Red Stripe, and there's not much of a chill out area. The lighting on the dancefloor amounts to a projection of a few Studio One album covers. But the music is faultless, and as everyone's just there to dance the atmosphere is always superb, so the reliably young and gorgeous crown don't seem to look down on old dudes like myself as they're too busy dancing like loons.
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Review of Indian Veg Bhelpoori House
06 Aug 07, 16:04
Cheapest restaurant in London I reckon.
I think it's now gone up to a shocking £3.50 for all you can eat. Capitalist scum. Still, for that you get to help yourself to a veg curry, a dhal, a couple of types of rice, salad, some breads, popadoms, onion rings and pakoras. And then you can do the same again 15 minutes later. And again, until you can't walk. It's pretty tasty, if rather lacking in choice, and costs about the same as a pint.
The exhortations to go vegetarian that cover every inch of wall space are pretty cool too.
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Review of Anam
06 Aug 07, 15:16
A shame. 
A year or so ago I would've given 4 stars at least, maybe even 5. On a weeknight you could sit at the bar, chat with the staff and drink £8 cocktails that were so good and so boozy you actually felt you were ripping them off by not paying twice that. The cocktail menu was about 12 pages long, with all manner of obscure ingredients and interesting combinations. My favourite was the Chilli Chocolate - chillis, chocolate and about 5 types of booze. Mmm... Chilli Choclate...
Sorry, where was I? Oh yes, Anam as it is now. In the past year it's changed management, they've reduced the cocktail menu to a fairly standard one, and turned the music up just a bit too loud for the size of the place. It's not bad, the cocktails are still above average, they still do the Chilli Chocolate (mmm... Chilli Chocolate...), but it just makes me remember how good it was before.
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Review of Rooburoo
03 Aug 07, 14:17
yum
Always excellent quality, but not especially cheap. They've recently expanded their menu, so there's a lot more choice now (I think I'd eaten everything on the old one at least twice).
The lamb dishes have always been particularly good - top notch meat cooked just right, hot but not at the expense of genuine flavour. The Malabar seafood curry I had the other night was excellent - light, coconutty south Indian cooking of a kind that's hard to find in London.
(My tip would be to get a children's meal to complement your main for a bit of variety)
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