Fish tacos in London?
Jun 17, 2015, 1:49 am
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I'd be up for that. I work just down from Commercial St when I'm in London, and it's only a 10-15 minute cycle down towards Charing Cross...
Jun 17, 2015, 4:05 am
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Taco Bell had several branches in London about 30 years ago (I know there was one near Goodge Street station and another near Earls Court station) but they closed down.
Mexican food has largely been associated with cheap and greasy and major binge drinking sessions and it's only been in the last five or ten years that any form of good Mexican started to appear in London - and it's still rare. Once you reach the burbs around London, you will still only find establishments that focus more on the tequila than the taco.
Mexican food has largely been associated with cheap and greasy and major binge drinking sessions and it's only been in the last five or ten years that any form of good Mexican started to appear in London - and it's still rare. Once you reach the burbs around London, you will still only find establishments that focus more on the tequila than the taco.
Jun 17, 2015, 5:27 am
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There are Taco Bell's in the UK now, just none in London strangely enough. There's three of them in Essex, two in Sheffield and one in Manchester.
Jun 17, 2015, 9:09 am
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When I first moved to LA, my fiancee was just about to move apartments.
In the time honoured US fashion, we went down to Home Depot to pick up some day labourers to help shift her stuff.
About an hour into the job, their self-declared foreman took me to one side and told me to drive down to Taco Bell and bring back a large order for the whole team.
He was somewhat shocked when I told him that although I was moving to LA:
All I knew about Mexican food was from the Billy Connolly sketch in which he says that all Mexican food is the same, the different names indicate that it has been wrapped differently. That didn't go down too well.
In the time honoured US fashion, we went down to Home Depot to pick up some day labourers to help shift her stuff.
About an hour into the job, their self-declared foreman took me to one side and told me to drive down to Taco Bell and bring back a large order for the whole team.
He was somewhat shocked when I told him that although I was moving to LA:
- I didn't have a car, and
- I'd never been to Taco Bell
All I knew about Mexican food was from the Billy Connolly sketch in which he says that all Mexican food is the same, the different names indicate that it has been wrapped differently. That didn't go down too well.
Jun 17, 2015, 9:17 am
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Aug 17, 2015, 1:46 am
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Too late for the OP's 26 June visit date, but Crazy Homies in Westbourne Park north of Notting Hill has fish tacos. Nice place.
Went to Cantina Laredo again yesterday and going to have to revise my earlier statement that it was a greasy Tex-Mex mess. Maybe they've upped their game as it was better than before.
Won't be back to Mestizo - that's the one truly awful Mexican meal I've had in London.
Went to Cantina Laredo again yesterday and going to have to revise my earlier statement that it was a greasy Tex-Mex mess. Maybe they've upped their game as it was better than before.
Won't be back to Mestizo - that's the one truly awful Mexican meal I've had in London.