What I’ve come to find about food in London is the meals get progressively more delicious throughout the day. I’ve enjoyed some great dinners, some good lunches, and the worst breakfasts of my life. (When beans, egg, and bacon are on a plate together and beans are the best of the three, something is very wrong.) Some of my best memories in London were spent drinking at pubs, eating fish and chips. The bar scene here is on a whole ‘nother level. In my hometown we may have a few good spots to drink and eat at around town that serve bar food, but here there are awesome pubs on every corner. They all hit the same too. They all have golden lettering above the entrances, and the name is always something regal like “the kings pub” or “her majesties tavern”. Truthfully some of my favorite fish and chip days were at the London pub right at our hotel.
I think my favorite food adventure was a crepe and pancake place called My Old Dutch Pancakes. It’s a brunch and lunch restaurant where the walls are pink, and the ceiling has flower beds on it and the food is so fantastic that I went back 3 times. The first time I got pancakes with chocolate chips with eggs and bacon, and get this, the bacon … was crispy. I nearly cried. The other time I went I got this crepe called “The Hot One.” It had peppers, cheese, onions, and chicken goujons (which is just fancy talk for chicken strips). The crepe was delicious but dry so I added some tabasco. It was pretty amazing. Food was certainly not something that I had on my mind when I chose to come study abroad in London, but I can honestly say that I was delightfully surprised by how much food I enjoyed here and many of my best memories from this trip will be food related, like this time I fed Brendan bacon like a Seal.
Theatre in London U of A 