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Ruben’s Reubens

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Address: 10 Market Row, SW9 8LB

Website: https://www.rubensreubens.com/

We have tried to get into this place before, but they had a strict no entry before 6.00 and we were 10 minutes early. It was Friday and we were trying to jump the inevitable queues. This time we got a seat on a Saturday but still early – book as it fills up very quickly and most seemed to have their own table. But their website tells you nothing about how to do this and we are very glad we photographed the menu.

This restaurant promotes its own smoked meat and fish with a mix of Jewish and Polish flavours. The menu is blessedly short with barbecue (lamb, sausage, wings) as well as vegie and vegan offerings (King Pao-strami cauliflower, burnt sesame broccoli, chilli cheese hispi), so a range of offers are mostly of the meat sandwich variety (corned beef, pastrami etc) although there is a veggie option. We chose the meat sandwiches.

First the obvious – a Reuben with sauerkraut, gherkins, Emmenthal, Russian dressing and mustard. As you can see this was a stack of corned beef in this one. Nicely toasted so you don’t have to balance the mouthfuls to stop it disintegrating – it was a little spicy, sour and crunchy too.

Next was a Kimchi – as it sounds it was pastrami with kimchi-kraut, gherkins, cheddar, gochujang mayo and mustard. Again a very good choice for anyone interested in a good bite to eat with a warm feeling that you have treated your gut to one of your three K’s a day (kimchi, kefir and kombucha).

Chips come with a dose of everything – salt, pepper and other stuff. We now forget if it was rosemary or mustard seed – you don’t really need to know anything more than they were delicious.

We had space for malted ice cream, gingerbread and salted caramel. we could taste the ginger but we think they need to put more Horlicks into the ice cream.

We washed everything down with beer although cocktails were available.

The whole meal came to £27.56 – a bargain! Now we have noticed it seems closed – sorry Reubens Reubens we should have been faster promoting your restaurant.

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144 Acre Lane Brixton SW25UT
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Phone: 077 8860 2119
Open: 08:30 – 17:30

This a good local coffee shop with excellent light meals. Half way along Acre Lane, it’s a bit cramped but, so long as the weather permits, it spills out onto the pavement on the sunny side of the street. Obviously it serves coffee but there are sandwiches, closed and open, plus some brilliant cakes. It’s not part of a chain and is run by the owners, who are obviously enthusiasts and community minded. Continue reading →

Myatt’s Fields Park Cafe

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Myatt’s Fields Park, Cormont Road, London SE5 9RA.

http://www.myattsfieldspark.info/

Hot days in June and July so a walk around the park with lunch is our choice of how to keep cool. A good choice is Myatt’s Fields – voted one of Britain’s top ten parks. For those who are more energetic there is a football pitch and a tennis court. This park will not provide much of your 10,000 steps a day unless you go round a couple of times but that just adds to its charm.

The cafe has tables and benches outside with sunshades, high chairs and when we were there a makeshift paddling pool. The menu is short – pizzas, panini, chips and some breakfast dishes. We chose two paninis – a veggie one with roast pepper and cheese and a caesar salad (salad, chicken with a rasher of bacon through the middle.

The panninis will be really hot when they arrive on your plate so be careful. They were both fine and value for money. We washed them down with homemade lemonade and a cucumber, mint and lemon smoothie. Both were really refreshing on what was a very hot day.

This is clearly a community resource as on the next table there was a makeshift party with a lovely pink and white cake for grownups. This is a great lunchtime destination for people watching and sitting in the shade.