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Tesco Stroud Green - poor hygiene
I just read that the Tescos in Finsbury Park got disturbingly low hygiene ratings when recently inspected. I'm interested to know, where do SG.orgers do their shopping?
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This is not always followed by a menage a toi with The Enkel, The Swimmers and The Landseer on the way back.
http://ratings.food.gov.uk/business/416882
A less trusting person might suspect you're just trolling or trying to generate anti-Tesco feeling (hardly a challenge).
So, what IS your source, hm?
I use Tesco because it's close, mainly for pre-packaged goods and the odd bit of produce (never anything from the bakery, and I wouldn't use their deli counter if they had one), which I imagine is pretty safe under these reported hygiene circumstances. I prefer to go to Co-Op in Crouch End, and if there's anything they don't have that I need, I grudgingly go a few doors down to Waitrose.
Tesco, SG, are in my bad books: they ran out of Guinness yesterday!
Clock Tower Store in Crouch End (would you believe, facing the Clock Tower) has good produce, as do many of the (probably cheaper) shops along the Harringay stretch of Green Lanes. Some of those Green Lane Shops look small because they have narrow fronts, but they can go back a long way and have a dazzling range of groceries (I'd never seen so many different kinds of olive!) One particular shop on GL (can't remember the name) has lots of low-priced but decent quality dry pasta (Barilla) right at the back, and they do a few Italian cheeses too.
Expensive, but reliably consistent; I don't think you can beat M&S (Crouch End Hill) for excellent salad tomatoes.
http://ratings.food.gov.uk/enhanced-search/en-GB/^/n4/desc_alpha/0/^/LessThanOrEqual2/1/1/10
They should be made to display this on the front door bet standards would go up
I've had to stop buying it as it's just too moreish, nearly as bad as my ruby port obsession...
favorites in our house.
few shockers too - particularly wb yates.
i've used tesco for years for top-up shops, but hate going due to its general untidiness & leaky fridges. think this is the final nail in the coffin for me.
Ocado are a pretty good delivery service which we use every three or four weeks for bulk things such as cat litter (especially since I don't have a car). They are Waitrose, but there's a wider choice of things on the website than at their Crouch End shop.
I like Clocktower and Broadway Fruiterers in Crouch End; a CE native tells me that the shop down Tottenham Lane is very good too, and cheaper.
SG Convenience Store is just up the road from La Porchetta almost opposite the Thai Massage place which has the lady who tries wave you in with a smile when you walk past in an evening
http://ratings.food.gov.uk/enhanced-search/en-GB/^/n4/desc_alpha/0/^/EqualAll/1/1/10
@HolbornFox , thanks for the Estrella recommendation. It's quite good (interesting that they use rice in the mash!), but if I'm going to drink lager I prefer something like Peroni or Menebrea. Guinness is my standby when I find myself in a pub where the closest thing they have to bitter (my preference) is pale ale (what happened to all that bitter‽) I buy Guinness in cans now because I have my elderly mother hooked on it as a dinner accompaniment. She was told to drink it when she was expecting (both me and my sister), and many years later when she was undergoing chemo- and radio- therapies. She's probably been convinced over the decades that it's medicine!
Are you and I the only ones who notice that horrible smell from that run-down looking shop on Stroud Green Road?
My family were also fans of the iron and my Grandad liked Mackeson Stout as well, he wasn't far wrong there, it's lovely!
Not sure I've ever had a decent bitter, does surreptitiously drinking Ruddles at 12 count?
What is a decent (non-craft) bitter?
I agree with @grenners , Sam Smith's is good. Old Peculier is even better if you find it bottled. But my favourite if I'm in a pub is Fuller's London Pride: not very hoppy, and with a nice malty finish.
(Er, "Farmers wife beater", @grenners???)