London E11 - Leytonstone, Snaresbrook and Wanstead » Restaurants

Award for Star of India

carlmoss — Wed, 18 Nov 2009 22:16:02 +0000

The Star of India in Leytonstone has scooped the Waltham Forest Guardian People’s Choice Award for Best Indian Restaurant. Owner (and fellow LARA committee member), Shah Ahmed said…

We’re excited about winning and extremely grateful to our customers. We’re very happy to win such a local competition – it’s a seal of approval.

The Star of India, as well as being an excellent restaurant, is well known for supporting a variety of local good causes and of course for publishing free quarterly magazine “The Star”.

Roaches Close Leytonstone Restaurant

carlmoss — Mon, 09 Nov 2009 22:55:27 +0000

Garden City Restaurant on Leytonstone High Road has been close by the council due to a cockroach infestation and generally poor hygiene.

Senior Environmental Health Officer Pip Broad, who closed the premises, said:

It was one of the worst cockroach infestations I have ever seen. The cockroaches were crawling all over the work surfaces and it would have been impossible to miss them. I could hear them scurrying round my feet as I was inspecting the restaurant.

Nice

More info including video footage of said roaches on Waltham Forest Council’s website.

Leytonstone Food Week

carlmoss — Wed, 21 Oct 2009 22:13:52 +0000

A number of restaurants in Leytonstone are offering special discounts during “Leytonstone Food Week”, which runs from Monday 26th October till Sunday 1st November 2009.

Leytonstone Food Week

Examples of the discounts on offer are:

Two main meals for the price of one at The Star of India.
A free jug of Sangria for 4 people at Elche.
20% discount on selected items at Singburi.

A leaflet which details all of the offers available can be downloaded here.

Belgique

carlmoss — Sat, 11 Apr 2009 13:06:42 +0000

After driving past a few times and noticing the packed tables outside, I finally popped into Begique, the new patisserie near Wanstead Tube Station on Cambridge Park Road. Seems to be rather good – very nice inside with a huge selection of cakes, some unusual sandwich combos, coffee and tea and some warm dishes too. Having googled them, discovered that they are in fact a small chain based in East London, with shops in Woodford Green, Epping and a new one opening up in Chingford. Well worth a visit.

Their website can be found at www.belgique.co.uk.

Food Standard Ratings

carlmoss — Mon, 12 Jan 2009 22:38:18 +0000

The Your London Website carries hygiene ratings and reports for food businesses across London. Ratings are based on the good old Amazon style star system, zero (very poor) to five (excellent). Looking at E11, there are quite a few surprises….

The Walnut Tree (four stars)
Costa Coffee in Tesco (four stars)
McDonalds (four stars)
Singburi (three stars)
Golden Curry (three stars)
Meze Patisserie (three stars)
Elche (three stars)
Petch Sayam (two stars)
Star of India (one star)
Chopsticks (no stars)
Tesco Supermarket (no stars!)

Big shock there for Tesco – their staff canteen is rated at four stars by the way. Also a big shock to see Star of India, Waltham Forest’s Restaurant of the Year in 2005 rating so poorly. Hopefully those with lower scores have now addressed any issues raised.

In Wanstead, things seem to be somewhat better…

The George (five stars)
Applebees (four stars)
Loon Yee (four stars)
Gioberti (four stars)
Starbucks (four stars)
Hadley House (three stars)
Somerfield (three stars)

For more info, visit the excellent http://www.yourlondon.gov.uk/.