Thai Van is part of the Petticoat Lane Market (or more recently known as Middlesex Street) and is…read moreon site Tuesday through Friday. Their Yellow Curry is honestly the BEST Thai Curry ever and is so addictive. My husband first told me about the place while looking for places to get lunch after moving offices. He would take it back to his desk and within minutes of the smell wafting around the office everybody else would then run out and get some too. I haven't tasted a Yellow Curry as good as from this van yet despite my desperate search. Of all the food stalls the Market has to offer this is defiantly one to try! EDIT: May 2013. I had to revisit this place while back visiting family and it's still as good as it was. Under $5 for a meal that's better than most restaurants. Love love love!! (P.S: Check the pictures I uploaded)

Thai Van is found in the "food court" section of the Petticoat Lane Market…read more Don't know what all the fuss is about from the previous reviewers Stephen and Emmalouise. Yes, Thai Van was tasty, but found it a tad pricey for the amount of food you get, especially considering this is a food truck! At the end of the day, Thai Van is average Thai food, maybe I've been spoiled by NYC's Hells Kitchen though.

Fried chicken is fried chicken? NO it's not!…read more This is the best fried chicken around, tasty, fresh, flavoursome and all round addictive! In an odd way it feels healthy as well! You can get cheaper fried chicken but why bother when for a few quid more you can get Mother Clucker! These guys are often dotted around London at places like Street Feast so if you get a chance make sure you give them a try! Hard to come up with 3 tips, but- 1.Don't bother with chips...fill up on chicken 2. Get messy, you don't need a knife, and you have no right to moan about getting messy...it's fried chicken! 3. Go back for more!

Well we woke up this morning had our daily email from Yelp and saw the one about a little American…read morearmy truck food shack. So we decided to get on the scooter and go for lunch and was it worth. We had 2 combo 3 southern fried chicken which I think was 5 strips, Cajun chips which they put hit sauce and lime majo on and a drink all for £9 but with our Yelp discount £2 off. Staff were really friendly food was out of this world. The chicken was moist the covering was amazing. Was not greasy at all. Will def be coming back and recommending it to all our friends. Thanks for the idea Yelp.

I'm surprised Wholefood Heaven isn't featured on Yelp. This business specializes in vegan and…read morevegetarian fare. If you want to find out more about the people that run it, just click on their website. There's some fascinating information there. After I started eating an inferior pad thai, I was looking for an alternative at the Whitecross Market. As I walking back to Old Street, I spotted Wholefood Heaven operating out of an old Citroen van. The sign advertised small and large Buddha bowls. Each contained the following: massaman curry with new potato, pineapple & soya chunks; flash steamed garden greens (kale today); carrot & kimchee pickle; shortgrain brown rice; omega seed mix. The Baby Buddha is £4.50, The Big Buddha is £5.00, and you can add Halloumi for an extra £1. These bowls are vegetarian and vegan, wheat & gluten free. And since it was near closing time and they didn't know if my greens would be steamed, they knocked off 50p. I fell in love with the Buddha Bowl at first sight. It was colorful with the seeds, carrot, and kale. And the odors wafting out of the bowl were quite nice. The bowl was sweet with coconut and pineapple. The additional hot sauce gave it a spicy bite with tang. The kale added a crunchy texture and a slight bitter tone. The seeds added a visual punch along with their nutritional value. Overall, it was a tasty, nutritional, and filling dish. I cannot wait to have more. The couple that runs Wholefood Heaven also gives cooking lessons.

With a previous award for best street food dish of the year (albeit a bit old now), it's not…read moresurprise that the Buddha Bowl here is incredibly good. Packed with flavour and a huge amount of vegetables and food, the large here will easily fill the hungriest of customers, and the extra halloumi you can add for £1 is well worth it. Get the spicy sauce, it adds a nice extra kick to the bowl! My only issue with this place is that the rice and massaman curry can get a bit one dimensional stuck at the bottom of the pot. The chilli sauce makes it more interesting, but if you've eaten all your extra veg/halloumi by the time you make it to the last quarter, it's a bit of a hard slog eating all that rice and potatoes. Still, just mix it all up, get it to go and you will not be disappointed. Some of the best vegan food I've had in London!

We hired Luardos for my sister's hen do, and it was honestly impeccable! From the very beginning…read morethe communication was fantastic -- from the initial messages to the calls to discuss the day in detail. On the day, they arrived around 12 to start preparing everything and the food was served beautifully around 7pm. They handled everything themselves and even left the kitchen immaculate afterwards. The team was so down to earth and friendly and the food was incredible. I would 10000% recommend Luardos -- they made the day so special and we couldn't have asked for a better experience.

Gosh, I just love this place. I have one word for you: GUACAMOLE!!! Get it - get lots of it!!…read moreHonestly this has to be some of the best guaca I've ever had on a burrito - it's creamy but has large chunky pieces of avacado running through it and it honestly brings this already amazing burrito to life. I've been a MAHUSSIVE fan of this little blue food truck for about 2 years now and it has never disappointed. It even rivals Pancho's for me (anyone who knows me or Pancho's will understand). The ingredients are fresh, the shredded beef is just perfect AND as an added bonus today I chose to have chorizo thrown in there too! It was a great addition, slightly over powering BUT I enjoyed it all the same. NOM.

I won't repeat what other reviews have said; simply confirming that the price range, variety, and…read moretastiness of foods is as reviewed by others; a delightful, culinary sampling of London's diversity. At least 10+ stalls, including vegetarian options. Pretty busy and lively during weekday lunch hour! The space is outdoors and is not covered, so bring an umbrella and/or coat as needed, and I didn't see a lot of place to sit and eat there, so it's mainly takeaway. Bathrooms: Not that I saw.

a mixture of cultures and tastes from around the world. a place to taste diversity.read more

How badly have I been wanting to try Spit and Roast? VERY!…read more I love a good chicken sandwich. In fact, I love a crappy chicken sandwich (there are reasons why a Zinger Tower Burger at KFC rocks at midnight after you've been drinking all night). So I was really hoping that Spit and Roast could bring all my chicken sandwich expectations into delicious, mouth exploding goodness. Man, did they live up to my expectations. They were serving a chicken sandwich with Korean hot sauce and a bit of Asian coleslaw (with peanuts). The sandwich looked great. It tasted even better. The hot sauce was hot (but not too hot) and the coleslaw with the peanuts came through like a champ. The chicken was cooked incredibly well with a delicious crispy batter and a soft, juicy inside. This was no dry sandwich, my friend. The only downfall was it was pretty tall and difficult to eat without getting sauce all over myself, but I didn't care, I just dug right in. It is so easy to screw up chicken, but these fellas, they do it right. And I hope that I'll be able to fill my face with their delicious sandwiches again. And again. (And possibly again for good measure.) Oh, they're a Kerb trader so look out for them at King's Cross. Or UCL when Kerb is around there. Or the Gherkin if Kerb manages to convince the City of London that Kerb traders aren't a blight upon their commercial ways.

I didn't know what spit and roast was before I read Grant's description yesterday...now I…read moreknow...and I approve. Grant has already given a pretty good description, so I don't have much to add. - Chicken = succulent and moist on the inside while crispy on the outside - Hot sauce = didn't taste Korean to me, but it tasted lovely. I got it all over my fingers, then had to lick it all off. Nom. - Coleslaw = not too mayonnaise-y, but crunchy, sesame-y and gorgeous *Thanks Grant!! **This sandwich is even worth sitting outside in the rain to eat it while it's hot. ***This place needs Linzi M to come back to London. I have a feeling she'd looove it.

Salt beef sandwiches? Yes please!…read more Unfortunately it can be quite difficult to find a good one around central London. I mean I love me some Beigel Bake, but who has the time to get out to Shoreditch? Thank goodness for Bell and Brisket. They're part of Kerb, so you can find them at the Kerb locations (King's Cross, UCL and the Gherkin), so they're often at places where I can get to them a bit easier. They have a wide selection of toppings for your salt beef sandwich. I ordered one with garlic sauerkraut and cheese. (And the even blowtorch the cheese to melt it!) You can also get your sandwiches on a rye bun or a bagel. They have other interesting looking sandwiches including one with kimchee I'm curious about. They get bonus points for having two windows. One for ordering and one for picking up your food. It makes it much easier to figure out what you need to do and how long the queue actually is. Mmmm. Salt beef. And good job to Bell and Brisket!

In all our world travels, this was one of the best falafels we've had. We strongly recommend the…read morewrap, made with fresh bread and falafel. Don't forget the eggplant (aubergines as they call them) as it makes the wrap exceptional. Definitely a must try here in the Berwick Market

There are lots of samey food stands on Berwick Street during weekday lunchtimes, serving…read more(something) in a wrap with salad. Mexican, Moroccan, and, in this case, falafel. Of those I have sampled however, Jerusalem Falafel was the runaway winner. An enormous wrap (a good foot long) with 3 large falafel inside, as much salad as you think you could eat, and the usual sauces - for a fiver! You can upgrade for another pound and get a couple more falafel pieces, but you probably don't need to; this is one filling lunch. The only thing stopping a 5-star review is the mess up in the ordering; I asked for the large, was charged for the large, but didn't notice that they only put the 3 pieces in my wrap until I got back to the office to eat. However, I didn't feel ripped off, as I said this was great value even at the extra pound. There isn't exactly a choice in what you get, besides the salad and sauce, but what they give you is top notch. I will be back to see if the quality is consistent, as this may become my new favourite cheap lunch spot in Soho...