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Elephant and Castle - Christopher Poole Review
How Helpful?:
Number of Visits:
2-5
How Busy?:
Almost Full
Date of Last Visit:
Friday, March 29, 2013
Time of Day:
Weekday Dinner
Comments - Stand out in our monthly competition! What did you eat? Unique aspects? Parking/transport tips?:
1/4 Chicken extra hot FREE
Toasted Pitta
Cheese
Pineapple
Soft drink
£4.30
PLACE: Table 14. Continuing my tour of the South London violent crime hotspots, I found myself in Elephant & Castle. To get to the Nando's you need to navigate your way through a neon pink, Serbian "shopping centre" that was dismantled, donated and shipped over from Eastern Europe in 1959. After that, you have to transverse a tramp hotel unsuccessfully trying to pass itself off as just a smelly roundabout. Taking the subway/hotel exit K/J you reach the bright lights of Mecca. And what bright lights they were. I think this Do's has illegal 200 watt bulbs installed to keep the crack-heads at bay. Even though everyone had forgotten their sunglasses, the dining room had a great community-buzz and the tables seemed randomly placed, which I prefer to the gridded feeding zone of Romford. I don't want to feel like a battery hen when I'm eating one. Unfortunately there was a bit of a nippy breeze by the window as the al-fresco enabling shutters did not possess rubber seals between the panels- 7/10
HOST: Irina. Classic Eastern European Nando's comedienne. I begin- "Please can I order…" she interrupts- "you can't order anything unless you tell me your table number!". Whoops, I guess even a professional Nandoer can slip-up on the old regime. To be honest, my concentration was lapsing as I was transfixed by the perpendicular grilling area. It was very unique to see the kitchen action from a side angle and I'm sure it was enough to put anyone off of their usual ordering technique. 5 minutes after I had sat back down, I felt a frantic tap on my shoulder, it was Irina- "sorry sorry, I forgot to ask if you would like your pineapple grilled and sliced or cold?". Amazing. FULL MARKS to her- 9/10
FOOD: I was trying to save money so I had a bit of an under-whelming under-order that I would rate 6. My dining partner actually had an amazing meal with a monstrous portion of steaming PERi chips and a burger with huge lashings of sauce so I'll rate this Nando's on that meal too- 6&9/10
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