Ethiopian Coffee in South East London

Seeing the post - below - about the Eritrean Coffee Ceremony, reminded me of a day, just a few years ago, when we hosted an Ethiopian Coffee Ceremony in our house in Forest Hill. I am told that there are only minor differences between the two (the shape of the coffee pot was mentioned) and here's what it looked like, Nazret preparing, Bethlehim serving:


beans.............................................preparing the coffee pot


pouring it..........................................serving it


and drinking it

Lunch today?

Words my grandmother would not have believed.....

Where shall we go for lunch?

Indian?


Chinese?


Japanese?


Portuguese (yes Nando's is Portuguese!)


French?


or Global? (Giraffe says it is Global Food )


all of these within 3 minutes from our door.
Sorry you missed it Granny!

5 minutes from Pan's office
here's where people can eat:

7 Coffee/Sandwich bars
5 Indian restaurants
5 Italian restaurants
2 Chinese restaurants
1 Chinese/Japanese restaurant
1 Sushi restaurant
2 French cafés
5 pubs with pub food
1 Fish'n'chips restaurant
1 Portuguese (Nando's)
1 American (burger bar)
1 Greek restaurant
1 Pizza joint
1 Organic café
1 "Global" food - Giraffe

that's 35 - very different - to eat within 5 minutes from our door

5 minutes from SE231AN people eat....

SE23 1AN - What do they eat?
walking out of my door for five minutes in any direction the good people of my neighbourhood can eat at, or get food from:

7 English "caffs"
5 Indian restaurants
3 Chinese restaurants
3 Chicken n' chips places
2 Pizza places
2 Fish'n'chips
2 kebab places (Turkish?)
1 Caribbean restaurant
1 Italian restaurant
1 Pub with pub food
1 Polish place

Take a look

First Chinese Restaurant in London

I thought it would be earlier than this - so see if your research can find anything -

In 1908 Chung Koon, formerly a ship's chef on the Red Funnel Line, opened Maxim's in Soho, which was the first mainstream Chinese restaurant in Britain. The food was Cantonese and the most popular dish was pork in a sweet and sour sauce called “jarjow”.

In 1958, the opening of the Lotus House in Bayswater – a restaurant so popular that customers who couldn't get a table asked for food to take away. Thus “it became the first take-away in Britain”.

FIRST INDIAN RESTAURANT IN LONDON

The first Indian restaurant was not part of the mass arrival of South Asians after World War 2, not even set up by an enterprising Indian soldier in World War 1 (there were tens of thousands of them).

It seems it was Dean Mahomet, from Patna, Bihar, who opened the first Indian restaurant, the Hindostanee Coffee House in Portman Square in 1773. He offered for the 'nobility and gentry' the enjoyment of 'Indian dishes of the highest perfection'.

Thank you Dean Mahomet

London food

Had lunch in Camberwell.

Chinese food
Malysian staff
South London accents

very tasty

When did the first Indian restaurant in India open?

http://punjab.co.uk/content/view/6/8/ this restaurant claims to be the first North Indian restaurant in London?