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Bunsik

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490 Brixton Road SW9 8EQ

https://www.bunsik.co.uk

This is a new Korean Street Food restaurant selling hot dogs on sticks as well as real meals and chips. You can’t miss it on the high street as it is the only one with a bright yellow façade. Although we are trying to big up those independent restaurants we still think there is a bit of space for the franchised. There are now at least seven outlets in London and probably more by the time this post is published. It is cheap food and we went and picked it up, although did peek at the menu before the visit.

There are 9 types of Korean hot dogs on a stick (a couple are vegetarian) with 10 sauces to add. Tteokbokki – chewy rice cakes simmered in a savoury, sweet and spicy sauce. Three of those differing in the sauce they are simmered in and you can add cheese or boiled egg. Then there are kimbap (rice with meat or veg in a seaweed roll) – there is a whole lot more but look at the website.

We chose: Tteokbokki in rose sauce, Sweet and savoury Cup Bap, a Kimmari (glass noodles wrapped in dried seaweed, coated in batter, and deep-fried) and chips. The Kimmari is not on the online menu so we were glad to have visited. You can see the array below:

Overall the food was sweet and not really spicy at all so if you want to turn up the heat then add your own hot sauce. The food was filling and the best of the bunch was the Cup Bap with soft rice on the bottom, crunchy chicken on the top with scrambled egg (?) some edamame and a bit of salad.

It was filling and the cheapest meal we have had in Brixton – for two people it came to £22.40.

Chip Shop

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Address: 378 Coldharbour Lane, SW9 8LF  (on the corner with Atlantic Road)

tel: +44 (0) 207 2743350

email: info@chipshopbxtn.co.uk

website: http://www.chipshopbxtn.com/

Friday night is always busy in Brixton, despite the move to Thursday celebrations – but we are old fashioned enough to think that Friday means fish and chips. We re-visited an old haunt that we refer to the hip hop chip shop on the corner of Coldharbour Lane and Atlantic Road – our last review is here. This was busy (we hadn’t booked), but they squeezed us in – literally to two seats near the bar. But although we hankered after something from the sea, we were to be disappointed. Their order has not arrived, so we were left with the mostly meat options. Just to wet your appetite prawns, fish fingers and battered cod are on the menu.

We chose from the extensive wings menu – wings in two sizes and a sauce – lots of sauces. We had sweet chili and orange glaze (RZA) and it was a bit too sweet for our taste so next time we might have ODB (bourbon barbecue) or Henny hot (Henessey infused). We are assuming that all the alcohol has burnt off. But despite the sweetness the wings we fat and juicy and sticky – we were given warm water with lemon to take care of that as it never comes off with a paper napkin.

We also chose a Red Man burger (buttermilk chicken with a spiced Mac sauce, red cabbage, red onion, scotch bonnet chilli and coriander slaw). We were a bit doubtful about the scotch bonnet hiding all the flavour, but we had nothing to worry about. We got an occasional hit and there was more in the middle but that was fine as we had built up our tolerance. This was a great crunchy, chicken and several of our veggie portions. We also needed the water and lemon for this too.

We were very hungry so we went out on a limb and ordered loaded chips. As you can see they really were loaded (Bacon, House made Nacho cheese (???), Diced tomato, spring onion & coriander). To be honest we could have done without the cheese. But these were “real” chips, crispy and altogether delicious with the addition of everything. Again the tomato cut any greasiness and we had yet another daily portion of fruit (well a tomato is a fruit).

Finally we saw that they had deep fried snicker bar and salted caramel ice cream so we had one to share. The Snickers (why did they rename it) is runny and you get all the crunch of the peanuts while the delicious ice cream cools all of it down. We were full by the end.

We washed (and I mean washed) all the food down with a pint and a half of German lager and a half of Brixton IPA.

The service was slow and so we had time to share dishes but they were full so we are forgiving. We also got some money knocked off the bill for that and we didn’t mind watching the crowd while we waited. The bill came to £50.50 but we had a £3.00 reduction. Service isn’t included. We will visit again but will make sure they have had their fish order.