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Great list. I have it printed out in tiny font for my wallet.

Amendment made to Maoz in OLD COMPTON ST. As stated, delicious and generous, but Falafel wrap is £4.30 and not £3.70

I've added the Thai Cafe Northwold Road N16 the best. Try their home coconut ice cream out of this world

NORTH
ANGEL - Le Mercury. Cheap and cheerful French bistro.
CAMDEN - That whole in the wall on your right hand side a few doors down as you come out of Camden tube - great steak baguettes
CHAPEL MARKET - Bhel Poori House. Super-cheap all you can eat veggie buffet. 4.95
CHAPEL MARKET - The Naked Sausage, stall during the market hours [6am-5pm] A gourmet half pounder with cheese, double bacon, fried egg, and caramelized onion in a cheese and onion roll/brown roll/etc - 5 quid
EUSTON - RASA Express, Euston Road opposite Euston Tower - two curries, rice, bread, pickle and dessert for £4 (vegetarian) or £4.50 (meat) - really good quality food as well
HOLLOWAY ROAD: Amigos, Mexican takeaway/delivery, good and cheap, massive burritos for 5-6 quid and they make their own hot sauce which is amazing.
PRIMROSE HILL - Trojka Tea Rooms, Regents Park Road. This place does awesome Russian food, all day long. Good stodgy meal and a frozen vodka is the perfect hangover cure and will cost less than a tenner.
STOKE NEWINGTON - Abu Ruchi, cheap and ace Keralan eats
STOKE NEWINGTON - RASA (number 55, not 56) on Church Street, fantastic food for under £15 per head.
STOKE NEWINGTON - Super Kebab. £5.00 for large, and a little more for a Shish. Best Kebabs I have ever tasted. Not a restaurant, but has seating areas.
STOKE NEWINGTON - The Thai Cafe 3 Northwold Road on one way system by Stamford Hill very cheap but price irrelevant because it is really good
UPPER STREET - La Divina, Mon-Fri 3-8pm deals of side+main+dessert £9.45, very good pizza out there, although watch out for spritzers, they charge them as big wine glasses

SOUTH
BERMONDSEY - Old Justice, Bermondsey Wall. Unlimited Korean bbq for 16.99.
BRIXTON - Khamsa, Algerian, 140 Acre Lane - Tiny, healthy, delicious, authentic family restaurant.
BRIXTON VILLAGE - Franco Manca - pizzas only - authentic Italian style toppings on sourdough bases. incredible. I've not had a better pizza in London. about £8 per disc of joy.
BRIXTON VILLAGE - Honest Burgers - excellent burgers and chips - meat is from the Ginger Pig. £7.50 for plain beef burger and chips.
CAMBERWELL - Zeret Kitchen for Eritrean/Ethiopian food, unfancy looking, incredible food (good for a big party of people too), £10er a head including a beer will be plenty
CAMBERWELL - Silk Road for Chinese food, awesome food, £10er a head including a beer will be plenty, booking advisable
DEPTFORD Mama Pho - 24A Evelyn Street, Deptford, London SE8 5DG I've put this down as Deptford because it is SE8 but in my book it is Rotherhithe any short menu rather meaty like the French they do not understand the word vegitarian but last week paid £25 for a meal for 3 be prepared to be the only none Vietmanese in the place.
GREENWICH - Noodle Time. Fat eats for a few quid.
LAVENDER HILL, BATTERSEA (& SHOREDITCH) - Mien Tay, Vietnamese. One of the best in London.
ROTHERHITHE - Surrey Docks Farm Café, run by Frizzante (who are also at Hackney and Mudchute City Farm). Lovely breakfasts and Sunday lunches. Farm produced meat is on sale whenever available, as are plants, honey etc.
TOOTING - Dosa n Chutny. Dosa, obviously, many of them under £3. Better for veggies than meat eaters though.
TOOTING - Meza on Trinity Road. Great (tiny) Lebanese restaurant, only about 4/5 tables so booking is a must. Main courses under £10. Great aubergine-based mezze.
VAUXHALL - Hot Stuff. Awesome curry, tiny prices. BYO, no corkage. Order a family naan, it is the size of the table.
WATERLOO - Master's Superfish, Waterloo Road. Best fried fish in town.
WATERLOO - "ev", Isabella St just off the cut. Great £10 Turkish Meze for two. They are the suppliers to Tas restaurants

EAST
BETHNAL GREEN - Noodle King. Massive dishes for a fiver.
BETHNAL GREEN RD (top of Brick Lane) - Tas Firin for wicked cheap Turkish. Amazing pide and kebabs (veggie ones too). Nearly always busy. You can eat very well for a tenner.
BRICK LANE - Beigel shop,24 hour and a huge salt beef bagel, £2.50
BRICK LANE - Sunday Upmarket has some decent food and a good atmosphere. The Japanese pancakes with cheese and vegetables, strange mayonnaise and a rice ball thing for £4.50 is top, as is the stand with cold mezze
BRICK LANE - Sweet & Spicy for Pakistani near Heneage st
BROADWAY MARKET - Joy, Indian. This place is under-rated and dammed good!
BROADWAY MARKET - Bella Vita. 2 pizzas and a bottle of S.Pellegrino for about £16
CLERKENWELL - Sedap for awesome Malaysian (and near LMNH) at 102 Old St
DALSTON - Mangal Ocackbasi on Arcola Street. Amazing Turkish charcoal grill, BYOB. Feast like kings for two is c.£30 (not including whatever booze you take). This place is all about the meat though - dunno how great the choice is for veggies.
DALSTON - 19 Numara Bos Cirrik. Best Turkish in town, no argument.
EAST HAM - Thattukada for Keralan at 241 High Street
MARE ST - Tre Viet, Vietnamese. Full sit down meal for less than a tenner a head. Unless you have wine.
MIDDLESEX ST (88-90) - My Old Place, Szechuan. Always busy. Huge plates of delicious authentic food and not just for meat eaters. Cash only.
SHOREDITCH - Calvert Ave (by shoreditch church), Home cooked thai that is made from seasonal veg. Irene, who runs it, is a real character. I can recommend the duck, pork belly and fish (cooked in tangy mango chilli sauce). Spring rolls + main + crumble for 2 = £25 - £30 and BYOB or wine.
WHITECHAPEL - Indo opposite Whitechapel Mosque for superb pizzas & a great bar
WHITECHAPEL RD - LaHore Pakistani / Kebab. Boom good and super cheap.
WHITECHAPEL – Needoos, as good as Tayyebs, but cheaper and less queuing
WHITECHAPEL RD – Tayyabs. Brilliant Pakistani food, again, super cheap and super super good. Booking essential.

WEST
BAYSWATER – Taza. Amazing falafel for about £3, just don't eat it standing up or you'll be wearing tahini
EDGWARE RD – Mandalay for Burmese food, unfancy looking, incredible food, £10er a head including a beer will be plenty, booking essential
EDGWARE RD - Kandoo for Persian is very good, a few doors down the road from Mandalay
EDGWARE RD - Patogh for Persian just off Edgware rd (by cafe Nero).
LADBROKE GROVE - Fez Mangal - Turkish BBQ with BYO IIRC. Good selection of meat and vegetarian dishes that won't break the bank - £20 will feed 2, easily.
NOTTING HILL GATE, The Churchill Arms on Kensington Church St. Pub on the front, but authentic cheap Thai restaurant round the back.
PORTOBELLO RD - Makan will give you change from a tenner. Best nasi campur I've come across.
SHEPHERDS BUSH - Next to Barclays on Uxb Rd. Great kebabs but do a mix of Afghan/Lebanese/Pakistani so the curries make a perfect sit down meal, about £6 per person
SOUTH KENSINGTON - Little Japan, tiny cafe, huge bentoes for about £5, cheap for a massive lunch

CENTRAL
DEAN ST - French House does bavette & frites for about £10 mon - fri lunch
EXMOUTH MARKET EC1 - Morito - Small but perfectly formed tapas/mezze bar next door to sister restaurant Moro. Dishes from £2.50. Veggie dishes are about £4, specials a bit more. Great sherries.
GOODGE ST - Le Pain du Jour, big, well-filled baguettes from £1.80, cheap baked potatoes and soup as well
JUDD ST - The King of Falafel, Judd St/Tavistock place - I like falafel, what can I say. This place is fantastic though, their 'moroccan bread' is a bit more expensive but stuffed with tomato or spinach and wrapped round really good falafel and salad. Best halloumi I've tasted as well
LEATHER LANE - Sara's Food Store & King of Falafel. £4 for a lunch box of hot Turkish yum or about £3.50 for a falafel. Authentic and tasty.
OLD COMPTON ST - Maoz, Delicious falafel in pitta for about £4.30, but with a sort of unlimited all-you-can-eat salad bar which they let you take the piss with. You just eat the filling from your pitta, fill it up again, take it back, repeat until bursting.
PICCADILLY - Yoshino, must be the cheapest sushi in London. Shrink-wrapped in plastic but really good. £2.50 for a vegetarian lunch box
REGENT STREET - Japan Centre - almost anything Japanese, love the dorayaki pancakes and korrokkes
TACHBROOK ST MARKET, PIMLICO: Falafel Bros - £3 for a fantastic wrap with lots of filling. Check out the other stalls here too inc. the Mexican street food one.
WARDOUR ST - Misato - great japanese fast food, bento box £8.60, huge queues on busy days, massive quantities
WEBBER ST - El Vergel, chilean goods at 132 Webber Street
WIGMORE ST - Comptoir Libanais - nice modern Lebanese food, canteen style cafe, sub £10

So it is, and thanks for the heads-up... some more of Hines' work here:
http://www.historyplace.com/unitedstates/childlabor/index.html
An interesting portrait of 'The American Dream'...
I still think the little lad is 'Cool as Fuck' though

Fantastic link. Thanks

News-lite

http://www.disinfo.com/2012/09/nasa-probe-spots-pyramid-on-mars/

Loving the comments

Love this. Loads of ideas (mostly meat) using cheap and available ingredients:

http://burgundysdinner.wordpress.com/

Asheesh Barman is pretty cool

Another hopefully less conentious question Pubs central or Islington way with a nice upstairs room to hire out for a 30th birthday. Must be near tube for parents/oldies/non cyclists? Probably about 30-40 people. Any thoughts?

Upstairs at The Compass on chapel market is free on condition of minimum bar spend, I think.

Anyone been to the Chicken Shop on Highgate Road? Any good? What did you have?
cheers!

That's how columbine started.

They rampaged because Austrian camera op rates were too high?! OMFG

Have you tried Shooting People?

Does anyone know of any London-based artists who work with rubbish and/or recycled materials?

Need to find a good place to take clients for dinner around Kings Cross tonight.

Any recommendations?

http://thefellow.co.uk

or

http://www.rotundabarandrestaurant.co.uk/

This has now gone, thanks for all the messages.

Missing a front wheel due to theft outside Cannonbury overground!

This model:

http://www.dawescycles.com/p-90-haarlem-ladies.aspx

FREE

I can text/email photos, but unable to upload them at the moment.

Anyone interested should contact me on o77four5 6five9 5o8

Bike is in NW5 (Tufnell Park)

Thanks!

M

If you're not paying (£££);

Covent Garden Hotel, Monmouth Street.

The Hospital (may be private members) Club, Endell Street.

If you are (£);

La Perla, Maiden Lane. Not posh, all the better for it. Not crap either. Good drinks and great atmosphere.

Nice one. Hospital is good idea tho' preponderance of resident Friday night dick/cokeheads detracts from it's appeal. Cov Garden Hotel too small.

La Perla is excellent. Gracias!

Thanks Hippy, Hoefla and Hats! I know the Haymarket - nice and funky but a bit too far away. Might have a look at Detroit, cheers. Any others?

Any suggestions for posh cocktails in/near Covent Garden?

Does anyone know of a computer hardware store in or near Venice, Italy...?

Trying to arrange purchase of a Dell lap top charger for my boss!

One thing I don't understand is why, if he is to stand trial in Sweden for allegations of rape which took place in Sweden, is he in danger of being taken to Gitmo and tortured for ~800 days?

i.e. presumably we, being the lapdog of the USA, would have happily packed him up and sent him over in response to an extradition request- but we have not done so, we were looking at extraditing him to Sweden.

Why are the Swedes assumed to be chomping at the bit to post him to the states? Because they won't be able to make the rape allegations stick, so are thinking "may as spoil his day somehow, where's the CIA guy"?

From a pro-Assange website:

*The UK’s extradition treaty does not have the temporary surrender (’conditional release’) clause. The UK’s judicial review process, while far from perfect, has a number of practical review mechanisms. The nearest equivalent case, of Gary McKinnon - a UK citizen who has been charged for hacking US military systems - has been opposed in the courts for 8 years.

Public opinion and the media (to a greater extent) are more sympathetic to Julian Assange in the UK than in Sweden. Public pressure could draw out the process of extradition to the United States in the UK. In Sweden the media climate is hostile (see Media climate in Sweden) due to the sex allegations. Public outcry would be significantly weaker and therefore less likely to stand in the way of a strategically convenient extradition.

In the UK, Julian Assange is better able to defend himself, muster support and understand the legal procedures against him. In Sweden on the other hand, the language barrier prevents him from effectively challenging the actions against.

The UK is politically better positioned to withstand pressure from the United States than Sweden. Sweden is a small country of nine million people close to Russia. It has grown increasingly dependent on the United States. In recent years Sweden has complied with directives from the United States in a manner that has not been scrutinised by Parliament, as has been revealed by the disclosed diplomatic cables (see Political Interference).*

http://justice4assange.com/US-Extradition.html#WUKJA

Disco gems and re-edits:

http://soundcloud.com/psychemagik/blackout-77-mix-psychemagik-12-08-10

From the comments section:

I was at a party last weekend and the usual bearded types were huddled around the laptop playing tunes no one was interested in. After an hour or so of no one dancing and people openly muttering about how crap the music was, I elbowed my way to the front and politely suggested we put on this Psychemagik mix. I don't think I need to tell you what happened next, suffice to say that an hour later there was a very different party going on. To put it another way, if you put this mix on at a party and people aren't dancing, you're at the wrong party.

Assange allegations:

http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/2010/dec/17/julian-assange-sweden

The allegations centre on a 10-day period after Assange flew into Stockholm on Wednesday 11 August. One of the women, named in court as Miss A, told police that she had arranged Assange's trip to Sweden, and let him stay in her flat because she was due to be away. She returned early, on Friday 13 August, after which the pair went for a meal and then returned to her flat.

Her account to police, which Assange disputes, stated that he began stroking her leg as they drank tea, before he pulled off her clothes and snapped a necklace that she was wearing. According to her statement she "tried to put on some articles of clothing as it was going too quickly and uncomfortably but Assange ripped them off again". Miss A told police that she didn't want to go any further "but that it was too late to stop Assange as she had gone along with it so far", and so she allowed him to undress her.

According to the statement, Miss A then realised he was trying to have unprotected sex with her. She told police that she had tried a number of times to reach for a condom but Assange had stopped her by holding her arms and pinning her legs. The statement records Miss A describing how Assange then released her arms and agreed to use a condom, but she told the police that at some stage Assange had "done something" with the condom that resulted in it becoming ripped, and ejaculated without withdrawing.

When he was later interviewed by police in Stockholm, Assange agreed that he had had sex with Miss A but said he did not tear the condom, and that he was not aware that it had been torn. He told police that he had continued to sleep in Miss A's bed for the following week and she had never mentioned a torn condom.

On the following morning, Saturday 14 August, Assange spoke at a seminar organised by Miss A. A second woman, Miss W, had contacted Miss A to ask if she could attend. Both women joined Assange, the co-ordinator of the Swedish WikiLeaks group, whom we will call "Harold", and a few others for lunch.

Assange left the lunch with Miss W. She told the police she and Assange had visited the place where she worked and had then gone to a cinema where they had moved to the back row. He had kissed her and put his hands inside her clothing, she said.

That evening, Miss A held a party at her flat. One of her friends, "Monica", later told police that during the party Miss A had told her about the ripped condom and unprotected sex. Another friend told police that during the evening Miss A told her she had had "the worst sex ever" with Assange: "Not only had it been the world's worst screw, it had also been violent."

Assange's supporters point out that, despite her complaints against him, Miss A held a party for him on that evening and continued to allow him to stay in her flat.

On Sunday 15 August, Monica told police, Miss A told her that she thought Assange had torn the condom on purpose. According to Monica, Miss A said Assange was still staying in her flat but they were not having sex because he had "exceeded the limits of what she felt she could accept" and she did not feel safe.

The following day, Miss W phoned Assange and arranged to meet him late in the evening, according to her statement. The pair went back to her flat in Enkoping, near Stockholm. Miss W told police that though they started to have sex, Assange had not wanted to wear a condom, and she had moved away because she had not wanted unprotected sex. Assange had then lost interest, she said, and fallen asleep. However, during the night, they had both woken up and had sex at least once when "he agreed unwillingly to use a condom".

Early the next morning, Miss W told police, she had gone to buy breakfast before getting back into bed and falling asleep beside Assange. She had awoken to find him having sex with her, she said, but when she asked whether he was wearing a condom he said no. "According to her statement, she said: 'You better not have HIV' and he answered: 'Of course not,' " but "she couldn't be bothered to tell him one more time because she had been going on about the condom all night. She had never had unprotected sex before."

The police record of the interview with Assange in Stockhom deals only with the complaint made by Miss A. However, Assange and his lawyers have repeatedly stressed that he denies any kind of wrongdoing in relation to Miss W.

So, this Assange geezer...can someone give me a quick synopsis

He's apparently raped someone but he's escaping to another country to 'get off'??!

He is accused of two separate sexual offences in Sweden.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/2010/dec/17/julian-assange-sweden

The Swedish government wants to arrest him and put him on trial for the sexual offences.

Assange says the extradition case is politically motivated and Ecuadorian PM agrees.

Assnage is worried that once the trial is over, he will be extradited to the US (there is some evidence that they want him) where he will rot in jail as revenge for the embarrassment caused by Wikileaks. (see also: Bradley Manning)

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Apparently it says 'Advertising stuff and has no email address in' according to a native Chinese speaker.

edit: thanks

Does anyone here read Chinese?

I am trying to submit a copyright claim to www.56.com but cannot find an email address. I am assuming it's here:

http://www.56.com/aboutus/3.pdf

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