UK Holidays - Time Out Cheap Eats in London (Time Out Guides)

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Binding: Paperback
Dewey Decimal Number: 914
EAN: 9781904978961
ISBN: 1904978967
Label: Time Out
Manufacturer: Time Out
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 375
Publication Date: 2007-01-23
Publisher: Time Out
Studio: Time Out

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Written by local food and travel journalists in the know, Time Out Cheap Eats in London offers more than 650 reviews of the best-value restaurants, cafés, and pubs in town. This completely updated fourth edition, compiled by the publishers of London's most extensive and highly regarded guide to restaurants, covers the spectacular diversity of cuisines in this most cosmopolitan metropolis and features a new chapter focusing on cultural background. Detailed maps with color-coded bullets, a wealth of new full-color photos, and a menu of dish explanations — from agedashidofu to zrazy — ensure easy use and make Time Out Cheap Eats in London the city's essential guide to eating out on a budget.

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Summary: Great book shows true cross-section of multicultural London of today
Comment: London is no longer about pie n mash,fish n chips, mushy peas,roast beef n yorkshire pudding - or jellied eels! Thank goodness for that,as we have to live here! And nobody wants to come on vacation to eat only that!

This book gives a true,budget update of what people really want to eat (including olde worlde English carveries and traditional stuff) in a carefully-chosed cross-section.

We enjoyed plotting out all the places and didn't find any that were closed!

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Summary: Helpful, but a bit frustrating to use.
Comment: Although, originally we felt that its origanization into different areas would be helpful, we ended up paging around the book a lot to figure out where we wanted to eat. I'm not sure exactly how to fix the problem, but it seemed like there might be a better way to group the maps and the reviews closer together.

Being Americans traveling in London with the weak dollar these days, we were always looking for just the cheapest places. It would have been very helpful to have lists like the Top 50 Single Pound Sign Restaurants rather than having to page around looking for them.

In the end, it saved us money and had us eating at a few interesting places, but it was just a bit harder to use than we initially thought.

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Summary: You'll find better deals on your own & have fun doing it.
Comment: Cheap eats is a complete waste of money, the places listed tended to be fast food knock offs and the info un-updated. Yet, the most frustrating thing was that the vast majority of food choices in this book tended to be very non-British. If your going to London, England you want to eat foods that are English, yet page after page of Time Out consists of pizza, chinese, thai, indian, chinese, russian, middle eastern, chinese again. And the page listing a few pie and mash shops or Fish and Chip shops could have been updated it is very frustrating making a trek to a location only to find it has been closed down for some time. And the final complaint here is the huge number of pages that are dedicated to advertisements for surprise surprise places they chose as a Cheap eat.
This book was so frustrating and worthless that after, three different closures I tossed it out with the rest of the garabage. No if you wish to find Cheap Eats that are truly worth eating save your money talk to a bus driver, cabbie or my favorite a policeman who'll walk you to the location and introduce you to his buddies at the pub and maybe buy you a pint.

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Summary: Excellent Book
Comment: We took this book on a trip to London (obviously), and went to several of the restaurants in the guide. All of the restaurants that we visited were fabulous. We would look up a restaurant and then go to that part of town to eat, which really helped in getting us out to other parts of London that we might not have normally visited. Highly recommended. Also went to eat a couple of times at "Wasabi", a Japanese fast food chain. It wasn't in the book, but I really enjoyed it. The sushi was very fresh and super reasonably priced.

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Summary: very helpful!
Comment: I bought this book in planning for a trip to London. With today's exchange rate, I really need to get the most for my money and this book is a great help. The reviews are clear, well-organized and have been invaluable in helping me plan my trip!

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