Good place for Lunch near Tube Station

Toddlesocks

Hi I am meeting an old friend not seen for 15yrs, would like to take her for lunch somewhere nice around Fin Park tube. Has to be near station. Any recommendations appreciated ?

CityOfSin

Pasta Remoli is right by the Wells Terrace station exit and it's perfect for a lunchtime catch-up - friendly staff, freshly made pasta and good wine. Affordable too.<div><br></div><div>If you wanted to head further up SGR, there's Petek, Pappagone etc. Sadly some of the better options (Season Kitchen, La Fabrica, Dotori are closed at lunchtimes)</div>

Sutent

My favourite place to eat now near the station is Gadz, He makes very tasty Lebanese food but there is no alcohol licence.Very affordable. Its a gem. 

TheWhiteLionN4

Hi Toddlesocks,<div><br></div><div>We are open from 12:00 and serve all afternoon, with lunch specials like chicken, leek & mushroom pie with mash or pork chop with fried potatoes both for under £10.</div><div><br></div><div><br></div>

checkski

I showed Hussain Sutent's opinion of his cooking, and he was pleased. I usually just have coffee and cake, which is OK...  <div>l am not there principally for the food and drink. But today I tried a verluffel (sp?), prettily decorated with salad and dressing. It was a snack, about 5 mouthfuls... and absolutely delicious! I've never tried Lebanese food before - similar to, but different from eg Algerian, or Turkish, it seems to me.</div>

checkski

There was also some chess on the go, yesterday. I felt sorry for the older chap. He was completely outclassed!

verga

Ah, that older guy - stumbling around with his pawns, barely able to string a sentence together in Portuguese

checkski

Not him, Verga!

Toddlesocks

Thank you all, a good selection, I will let her choose. Unfortunately mobility is an isssue, ideally I would love to take her a walk down SGR so she could see how the area had changed since she emigrated.

Sutent

The falafel wraps are the best thing. Home made fresh falafel with tahini, pomegranate juice, chilli sauce and sald. All for £4. Bargain.  

TheMimsy

Agree with Sutent, love the falafel wraps! The Tabbouleh is nice, too.

Mirandola

Park Theatre's pretty decent for lunch too - and all floors are accessible by lift. 

krappyrubsnif

Thumbs up for Hussain at Gadz too.   It's a tatty old place and you can't get a beer (and you might have to put up with Chekski or Jeremy) but the home made Lebanese food is great and cheap.    He usually makes me a mega chicken salad with everything on top from tabbouleh to pomegranate seeds and chilli - it's about a fiver, very fashionable in an Ottolenghi-style, you couldn't get it in Crouch End for less than £12.    Bargain.<div><br></div><div>@Verga if you are referring to me as the shambolic guy who can't speak Portuguese  - spot on.  I always lose at chess, and I couldn't get anyone to do my Portuguese translation for me (lots of volunteers, nobody actually could be bothered, every one let me down).  I am going to have to raise the £150 necessary to get it done professionally, so it will likely never happen.    And I am a spring chicken.</div>

Sutent

Like for krappy comment on Gadz

TescoPigeon

Vitor the hairdresser is Portuguese. Just sayin'.

verga

Sim, eu acho que ele fala Portugues também 

TescoPigeon

As do you

miss annie

All of our cleaners at work speak Porteguese as their first language. I could ask if any of them are interested/have time to do it if you like? I'm not sure if any of them are confident enough with English to do it but one was a teacher at home in Brazil so she might do it.

vetski

@krappyrubsnif, a friend of mine is a professional translator - she's Portuguese. Msg me a link to what you want translated, & I'll ask her how much it would cost? She might be willing to do mates' rates...

krappyrubsnif

Just to report back on the translation from Portuguese.<div><br></div><div>I asked for an estimate from a professional translation company  - they would charge £610 to translate 17 minutes of video (probably about 2,000 words).  It's what it costs.    I know translation is time consuming and expensive, but that's money I just don't have.    (I run a self-funded 'not-for-profit' <a href="http://www.tvindalert.com">public-service website, investigation and blog</a> on this charity scam - more fool me - and while I have many interested supporters, it would take me weeks to raise that kind of money.</div><div><br></div><div><span style="font-size: 10pt;">I was hoping I could rely on 'crowdsourcing' a rough translation rom well-wishers.   That didn't work - several promises, but no deliveries.    Luckily, after making a fuss, I think I've found a solution now - a young woman in Brazil who was herself a victim of the scam I'm exposing is doing a translation for me - of course, she is highly motivated.   This is great because in a few days I'll be able to update my blog with a story repeating the Portuguese TV programme's allegations for all the world to see. </span><br></div><div><span style="font-size: 10pt;"><br></span></div><div>I've learned one lesson - people won't generally do something for nothing, even for a good cause, so next time I'lll pay £10 an hour for a rough translation - it's the only way.   And I will just have to crowdfund some money and keep it in reserve.  And it will happen again - TV reports in different languages come up all the time.</div><div><br></div><div>Thanks for the offers of help, I'll reply to each individually.</div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><br><div><br></div><div><br></div></div>

vetski

The friend I asked yesterday said she'd have done it for free! (Because though she's a translator, her qualifications are for written rather than audio pieces, so she wouldn't have felt comfortable charging for it). Glad you've found someone.

krappyrubsnif

<a href="http://www.tvindalert.com">I</a> am - finally - getting it done for free!  It has just been a faff, since - perhaps understandably - people's initial enthusiasm to 'help' sort of evaporates after a day or two, there are always other things to do, nice weather, beer to drink, you never hear from them again.   It ends up just leaving you high and dry.<div><br></div><div>Duh!   Annoying!    Next time, as I say, I'll just offer to pay to begin with and find the money later.</div>

checkski

Back to the subject of Gadz. Is this the right thread? Hope so. I've never had a meal there before. Vegetarian. Rice.pots.couscous. salad, Lebanese style. Delicious. And Hussain only charged me a fiver. Wonderful man.

HolbornFox

Lovely falafel wraps and treble shot coffee... good way to stave off a hangover!

Very much reminds me of my time in North Africa as it happens (no hangovers there though).