Affordable (CHEAP) place to eat it London?

Question

I am off to London in July, and might stay in Kensington or Bayswater district. I am abit scared on the price of food in London as I heard they are bloody expensive!

Please advice where could I find decent and cheap food in London. How is the price at fast food restaurants (KFC, McDonalds etc.) ?

Thanks people.

Answer 1

Hi I can be of assistance with Mc'Donalds:

- Medium meal (Big Mac, McChicken, Filet o Fish, Quater pounder, 6 nuggets) + medium fries + medium drink (Coke, Orange juice, Fanta, Sprite) = £3.29

- Large meal = £3.59 (large fies, large drink

Ice cream - Mc Flurry = 99p (various toppings)

- individual burgers (Big Mac, McChicken, Filet o Fish, Quater pounder, 6 nuggets)= £1.99

-hamburger 69p, cheesburger 79p, double cheesburger £1.19

- fries small-89p, medium-99p, large £1.29

-fizzy drinks 99p / medium, 1.19 large

-deserts:

muffins-99p (chocolate, blueberry)

apple pie - 79p

2 apple pies - 99p

- then you have deli toasted sandwiches menu, variety of choices, see: http://www.mcdonalds.co.uk/?f=y

- cost varies for individual sandvich 2.59 - 2.99, for a meal, medium 3.99 - 4.19

- add 30p for milkshakes (with meals) - stravberry, chocolate, banana, vanilla

There are more choices available, but thats for a start.

Hope that helps,

Mike

Answer 2

My favourite bargain place is Diwana Bhel Poori in Euston.  

It serves great vegetarian Indian snacks and it is hard to spend £10 per person for a meal.

http://www.andyhayler.com/show_restauran...

Answer 3

Kensington and Bayswater are quite expensive, but there is an excellent juice bar in Baywater called Fresco that serves lebanese food (order the selection of lebanese starters!) - it costs about £7 for enough food to feed two people to the brim.

Here's another one which serves spicy South American food in Elephant and Castle:

http://www.ballofdirt.com/entries/9605/2...

Lots of little general stores usually sell stuff like cold samosas in packets for about 70p to 90p.  The supermarkets (Tesco, Marks and Spencer, Sainsbury's) have reasonable ready meals too.  It's hard to get full for less than £3, and an average meal will be about £7

Answer 4

just take a stroll around the neighborhood you are staying in.  I was there last October, and by walking around the neighborhood I was staying in, I found a place that was doing a full English breakfast for 2.99...The hotel was charging 10 and the food wasn't nearly as tasty!!! Found a pub that was doing fish n chips for 1.99...And I always love a trip to wagamama...

Answer 5

Stay at home. We have enough people here already who see KFC as 'eating out'. We don't need any more.

Answer 6

you can always win with mcdonalds,KFC,pizza hut. But the pound is about double the US dollar, so you'll pay about double what you would in the US for everything. At least last I went 3yrs ago.