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Londoners love their budget Asian food chains - Wagamama, Busaba Eathai, Ping Pong, Yo!, Itsu. Slightly less well-known is dim T cafe, which fits the mould financially, but delivers a bit more atmospheric bang for your buck (or pound).
In other words, you could actually go here for a semi-real dinner out and feel like your experience was, well, pretty real. Maybe it was the esoteric electronic music playing, the fact the weather had been surprisingly nice, but everyone was out for a good time.
We visited the More London restaurant on a Saturday night. No one under the age of 40 was present. One hen night was there. And somehow, everyone seeming had known to make a reservation.
The seating policy was a bit unclear to us. We'd called that afternoon for a table, and requested on upstairs, overlooking the Tower. "We'll do our best," we were told. When we arrived, we were offered a choice of two tables - at the top of the stairs or next to the ladies room. Yet the rest of the room was empty, and far nicer tables were given to people who arrived after us. In retrospect, we should have braved the tables outside, or holed up in the back of the downstairs in the cozy, romantic cushions.
Our server was great and the food was surprisingly good. The vegetable spring rolls were a bit greasy but super tasty, the Phad Thai was a bit bland but fine, the crispy shredded beef was spiced up with red onions ad very good, and the crispy duck was as good as it ever is. And the fortune cookies were not your average takeaway junk - decorated paper squares rolled up in a dense, delicious cookie.
Mine read: The most important things to maintain are the foundations.
Whether they meant the foundations of my life, the foundations of More London or the foundations for a pretty good evening out, I had to agree.
We visited the More London restaurant on a Saturday night. No one under the age of 40 was present. One hen night was there. And somehow, everyone seeming had known to make a reservation.
The seating policy was a bit unclear to us. We'd called that afternoon for a table, and requested on upstairs, overlooking the Tower. "We'll do our best," we were told. When we arrived, we were offered a choice of two tables - at the top of the stairs or next to the ladies room. Yet the rest of the room was empty, and far nicer tables were given to people who arrived after us. In retrospect, we should have braved the tables outside, or holed up in the back of the downstairs in the cozy, romantic cushions.
Our server was great and the food was surprisingly good. The vegetable spring rolls were a bit greasy but super tasty, the Phad Thai was a bit bland but fine, the crispy shredded beef was spiced up with red onions ad very good, and the crispy duck was as good as it ever is. And the fortune cookies were not your average takeaway junk - decorated paper squares rolled up in a dense, delicious cookie.
Mine read: The most important things to maintain are the foundations.
Whether they meant the foundations of my life, the foundations of More London or the foundations for a pretty good evening out, I had to agree.
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Sarah Western Balzer is the managing director of HITC Life and is always on the lookout for reader-writers, so if you'd like to be one, make yourself known (sarah.western@hereisthecity.com). Sarah moved to London six years ago from New York but is originally from Florida, and still suntans like it's 1989. She is so grateful to the banker who introduced her to Here Is The City that she married him, and they live in Wapping with their son.
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