Noodle House in elephant n castle. The area looks a bit like a dumpyard at the moment from the building work, but this place is good enough to forget that. £3.50 will get you pretty much any dish in there and its great chinese food. Id recommend it to anyone passing through the area.

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- in Bayswater you've got the Tex-mex place; can't remember the name
- in mile end you've got the Golden (something) Chinese place, their food is quality. And across the road there's a coffee bar and that's actually pretty good, plus if you walk down the road you can go the the QMUL uni cantine and eat some good old college puddings
- in Greenwich you've got Mr Wu's and Café de Sol
- in Catford you've got Grant's restaurant and wine bar
- in Lewisham there's the China Inn (recently renamed to something Vietnamese)
- for Streatham I'll have to get back to you on that, but there's a nice Indian place I went to that everyone has to go to!!!
- if you go to Bluewater you have to go to that pizza place there. Everything is nice!
- I went to Brighton and there's a Chinese up there, well there's two; one is expensive and don't do normal dishes and the other is normal priced and only up the hill from it! Go there!!!

Avoid Tai Won Mien's, they're the worst Chinese restaurants in England!

if you can and have a taste for it try sumosan...a well worthy 6-monthly treat.

my place!

I like a restaurant called Wagamamas. Everyone just sits on these long tables so you are sitting in betweeen or next to other people. It is really clean and nice and not expensive. There is one located on Lexington street
which is the dead centre of Soho so you can go out after and have a lot of choices as what to do next. I recomend looking at their website as I always just have the same rice and chicken in breadcrumbs and this lovely thick curry sauce that is very mild. It serves all sorts of noodles and serves alchohol for those who drink. Also a place called La capanina off greek street is a more expensive and intimate restaraunt. It needs to be booked in advance but if it is an important date and you like Italian food then this one is good. It is not bright , busy and noisey. You can get a bit of privacy and the waiters are cool and dont make you feel dumb. The Elbow rooms are good if you like a fashionable crowd and a bar with cool inset tables to eat while you wait to play on these amazing American purple pool tables. It is run/owned by 80s producer Arthur Baker (afrika Bambaataa/Michelle Wallace etc) There are flat screen monitors everywhere and even a small dance floor for when they have bands. It is a slick modern cool place to go for a drink and a light meal. You dont have to like pool to go. You get a plastic little box and when it flashes it is your turn for a pool table that has become available if you ordered it. Nobody comes over and puts a coin down on your pool table like in some pubs and hogs the table so you cant just play with your date and have fun. The table is yours for the hour or two. I like the one in Chappel market Isslington better than Bayswater but they are popping up everywhere check the web. Staff come to your table and offer and bring drinks food and whatever while you play. Also beware of the mirrors in the toilet, whilst you are preening yourself or doing up your trousers still in the full size mirror by the exit door. The girls toilet can see you as it is a mirror that they can see through whilst you can just see yourself. If the date is going well and she uses the toilet at the same time as you, try not punching the air or doing gunslinger fingers and shouting I'm a tiger as you are looking in the mirror. She or another girl may just catch your performance.

Bistro one in Southampton street is clean ,friendly,open until 12pm most nights,and best of all it costs just a tenner for a three course meal.
Southampton street runs betwen the bottom of old covent garden market and the strand.

Sadly my most favourite place is shut now due to soho hotel being built.Centrale did the cheapest decent pasta in London in enourmous portions.Who needs progress when the best places in London get wiped out.

Ive been down archer st many times in search of the new Centale and Im sorry but it never existed.Although there was a sign stuck on the old place in Soho announcing that thats where they were moving it looks like it never happened.
I had a casting in town yesterday so thought Id have another check.Still nothing.But I got the job so it wasnt all bad.However I got blown out on a date so is was a bitter sweet day

What a shame they never re-opened I loved it in there, spent many a happy hour drinking rough red wine in there!

Congrats on the casting what was it for?