tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1588051831069283523.post759580013069264340..comments2024-03-27T11:45:40.393+00:00Comments on Cheese and Biscuits: Léon de Bruxelles, Covent GardenChris Poplehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02668565800857295023noreply@blogger.comBlogger9125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1588051831069283523.post-171287638397709252012-07-10T21:28:03.034+00:002012-07-10T21:28:03.034+00:00Tried Zero degrees in blackkheath?
Good cheap muss...Tried Zero degrees in blackkheath?<br />Good cheap mussels, frites and beer...Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07285101862482140260noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1588051831069283523.post-71535634314995316592012-02-06T11:32:59.923+00:002012-02-06T11:32:59.923+00:00Those aren't frites! Christ, they look like so...Those aren't frites! Christ, they look like something I'd get in my local kebab shop (I haven't been). Frites are fatter than 'fries' with less potato and a helluva lot more crunch. An absence of frite sauce is also inexcusable.The SW Food Bloghttp://theswfoodblog.wordpress.com/noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1588051831069283523.post-35770221577831500132012-02-05T10:34:31.061+00:002012-02-05T10:34:31.061+00:00Cannot agree more with you! expensive and nasty su...Cannot agree more with you! expensive and nasty sums it up nicely. The frites in particular were seriously awful.Paolanoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1588051831069283523.post-59033319810732234782012-02-03T17:03:37.747+00:002012-02-03T17:03:37.747+00:00Odd place to open, can't be more than 2 mins f...Odd place to open, can't be more than 2 mins from (the original?) Belgo. Mussels are still a significant bargain when it comes to seafood and a doddle to cook at home. As you say, leave it to the tourists.Gavinhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01259095508399818312noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1588051831069283523.post-61401251558906861442012-02-03T16:35:28.985+00:002012-02-03T16:35:28.985+00:00So this is a branch of the original Leon restauran...So this is a branch of the original Leon restaurant in Brussels? That one is also in a really toursity area, and I avoided it like the plague as had heard it was pretty shit too. <br /><br />To be fair, Stella on the menu is almost defensible given its Belgian heritage - albeit that has been diluted into piss-water by brewing under licence in the UK.Saltcakehttp://saltcake.blogspot.com/noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1588051831069283523.post-12439879565453125092012-02-03T16:03:19.926+00:002012-02-03T16:03:19.926+00:00Shame it's not any better!
Stella isn't b...Shame it's not any better!<br /><br />Stella isn't bad as a regular larger choice tho.Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16992044165369788749noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1588051831069283523.post-78998188776168585862012-02-03T15:40:26.514+00:002012-02-03T15:40:26.514+00:00I've lost count, and memory, of the number of ...I've lost count, and memory, of the number of restaurants this locale has hosted during my relatively short residency in London, but they've all looked awful, opportunist and brazen-balled expensive, trading on the location and nothing more.<br /><br />Doesn't seem like much has changed.Martinhttp://twitter.com/handlewithcarenoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1588051831069283523.post-34743695605803482392012-02-03T15:02:44.746+00:002012-02-03T15:02:44.746+00:00"Malty with a pronounced hoppy bitterness&quo..."Malty with a pronounced hoppy bitterness" is perhaps the laziest description of a beer I have ever heard. <br /><br />I would like to trump it though with "The magical yeast in this beer turns malty water into fizzy boozy hoppy liquid".Oisin Rogershttp://www.theship.co.uknoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1588051831069283523.post-14775946040966372542012-02-03T14:40:52.946+00:002012-02-03T14:40:52.946+00:00hi chris, good to have you back (posting).
maybe,...hi chris, good to have you back (posting).<br /><br />maybe, as with the other restaurants that you review you could have tried another "dish". i realise that since this is a mussels place it would also have been mussels, but maybe they do other decent sauces.<br /><br />can i also plug the big mussel in newcastle. a dedicated mussels place that has been open for years. really good quality too.<br /><br />also, how much roughly were the beers. i had a belgian kwak in oxford recently for £5/bottle! expensive, but belgian beer is lovely.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com