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'Grazing' On The Cheap In London

Where: 19-21 Great Tower Street, London, United Kingdom, EC3R 5AR
February 19, 2009 at 2:16 PM | by juliab | 0 Comments

So where to go for a good old meaty London lunch? Well, the brave could try St John, where they specialize in offal. Pheasant and trotter pie not for you? There’s always Smiths of Smithfield, which has four floors of eateries – getting more expensive as you go up the stairs – just opposite London’s meat market (Smithfields, if you hadn’t guessed.)

Or, if you’re really on a budget, and it’s before 4pm, you could go to Grazing, on Great Tower Street – handily on the tourist map because it’s directly halfway between the Tower of London and The Monument, which reopened this week.

Grazing specializes in meat (veggies, you’d better stick with the sandwich shops at the Tower), so you’ll find hot roast pork and beef rolls, “roast meat boxes” and toad in the hole (basically sausages in batter – don’t knock it till you’ve tried it). For those of you with more distinguished palates, there are things like soup and chorizo and rocket (that’s arugula for the Yanks among you) rolls.

Prices are pretty decent to begin with - £2.95 for a breakfast bacon butty, or £4.95 and up for lunch – but keep an eye on their website, because they do great offers all the time. In January, they announced they’d accept, and honour, any discount voucher from any other food store. For Valentine’s, they had a special “sausage fest” (no, we don’t know what that was, and we think it’s best not to ask), and this week, because it’s the half-term school holiday, lunch is half price after 1.30pm.

Don’t underestimate it, though. It’s cheap, but it’s no diseased/factory farmed meat they’re peddling here. All their food comes from “artisan butchers” and small farmers across the UK, the coffee’s fair-trade and the cakes are home made. Which makes for much nicer eating, and much more settled consciences.

Related Stories:
· Pay What You Can at London Restaurant [Jaunted]
· Grazing [Official Site]

[Photo: Grazing]

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