Croydon
Kfc

Kfc

11-17 Crown Hill, Croydon, United Kingdom

Tea • Chicken • American • Fast Food


"Consider, not the lilies of the field, but your breakfast options at the witching demi-hour of in Central Croydon. Will you be a chosen one to purchase the last few cooling pancakes and syrup or a sausage burger at Mc D’s ? Will you...fail to summon energy to escalate up to M&S for a sandwich ? Will you, like this humble scribe, step back at Greggs and behold in horror the zeitgeist shrinkage of slim girthed baked goods, more positively regarded as giant canapes ? Nothing ventured nothing gained, I pushed against an open door at KFC in Church Street, just two tram stops down from East Croydon Train and tram stations, the one next to Timpsons on the left side of the tracks. At I had an original recipe meal , hot wings, cherry pepsi and punnets of hot sauce and garlic/buttermilk mayo, for under by card. The sauces have potassium, much lauded by nutritionistas , you can go plant (well, chip) based here, with zing and follow on to hunting and gathering edible plants at Surrey Street Market. The fizzy pop was liquid marzipan, because of the vanilla and cherry mix, novel. Unctuous, melt off the bone original recipe, contrasted with biscuity coated chili wings. Each sauce punnet cost and if you ever have non-KFC lunch on the go, I would urge you to stock up multiples of this hot sauce and garlic mayo. The hot sauce dialled down the sugar contains no tex mex cumin a good thing), the butter-milked mayo had extra oomph. I wish I had ordered extra chips, as even massive double dunking only used up half of each. KFC have researched this well with Mc Cormick saucieres. Great team here, Franchisee never mean with serviettes, smiley too.. The ambience would serve well for Saturday brunch after the Friday night before in my view, romantic even. The light is subdued by strategic posters. The ceiling is quite low and most are tables for two. The playlist included soulful Amy Winehouse rather than hectic drive-time radio. During Monday to Friday, this would be an inspired breakfast meeting venue for eight at the west corner, the wide wood Windsor chairs are expansive and um, friendly. One can rock in at o’clock ante meridian, on one’s credit card. Heaven."

Las Fuentes

Las Fuentes

High Street, CR8 2AA, Croydon, United Kingdom

Pub • Full • Tapas • Spanish


"I have been coming to this place for many years as this is my local restaurant and it used to be a really nice, vibrant, busy place! Unfortunately not anymore, we have been told that the management recently changed and this place is not the same unfortunately. We booked a table with some friends for the New Year eve and we have been told that there will be DJ and dancing in the venue as it was in the previous years, which was brilliant previously, we have paid deposit as well. When we arrived, we have been told that there will be no DJ, which clearly we were given the wrong information and were mis sold. We have waited for the table for half an hour and when we finally sat down and ordered the food, my friend accidently nocked the grass of beer. The 'Manager ' came over and told us that they are not going to serve us drinks anymore and he took away our drinks which we have paid for. It was unbelievable! I have never experienced this in my life, such an appalling service and horrible attitude towards the customers! It was humiliating and embarrassing in front of all other customers! Since they took our drinks, we simply stood up and left the restaurant! The New Years eve has been completely ruined! They have returned out deposit later, but I will NEVER go to this place again and would not recommend to anyone as your special occasion or a simple visit could be ruined! The service was appalling!!!"

Meatliquor

Meatliquor

99 George Street, CR0 1LD, Croydon, United Kingdom

Meat • Cheese • Burgers • American


"Came here Friday night around 8pm and it was really quiet. We waited best part of 20mins to get served despite there only being three other covers in the restaurant and I had to go up and get their attention as the staff seemed busy socialising. Given how long we’d been waiting we had time to memorise the menu and ordered drinks and food at the same time. To our great disappointment when ordering we were told they’d run out of mac n cheese, chorizo and also most importantly buffalo sauce so couldn’t do any buffalo wings or chicken “monkey fingers”. The buffalo wings were what we were most looking forward to. Thus a rethink to our order was required. We both ordered a Dead Hippie Burger with bacon, some chilli cheese loaded fries and a slaw to share. The burgers are good but nothing special… fairly flavoursome, however, I did think it was arguably salt heavy without the balance of flavours I’ve had with other burger joints. The bacon patties must have the best part of 2-3 grams of salt per patty. Only one gherkin in the burger seems a little stingy or could be lack of quality control. The lettuce was soggy where it’s placed at the bottom of the patties, maybe a meatliquor USP to put lettuce below the meat? If it is… Doesn’t work for me. Loved the chilli cheese loaded fries. The Fries were still crispy and the flavours and mix of toppings worked a magical combination for the tastebuds. The slaw was fresh. Could have packed a little more zing and bite but in the grand scheme of things was a solid side. The Toffee Apple Hard Shake. One word. Epic! The Angelita Margarita was also decent. Would I return to MeatLiquor? I would another branch as I’ve been Brighton before and had far better service and the whole menu was available. Would not bother wasting your time with this one if you want Buffalo wings and attentive service. Food 5/10 Drinks 9/10 Service 5/10 Menu Availability 2/10 Decor 7/10 OVERALL 5.5/10"

Uncle Lim's Kitchen

Uncle Lim's Kitchen

1123-1124 Whitgift Centre, Croydon, United Kingdom

Meat • Cafés • Curry • Kitchen


"I was with my Malay wife in Croydon to visit the UK govt visa/residency offices. Afterwards we strolled about to look for somewhere to have lunch and were really surprised to find this place in the Whitgift Centre. It 's laid out like a genuine Malay/Singapore food court/coffee-shop. A counter area and then tables and chairs in front. I had a fried chicken kuay teow and my wife fried prawn mee siam. She also had a freshly made hot lemongrass drink which was nice a refreshing. All very authentic indeed and good amounts of chicken, prawns, tofu and so on so filling. They weren 't serving from pre-cooked tureens at the counter but instead cooking to order. So the counter looks pretty bare. Also, not serving on plates within the premises but take away and also served up in the same containers to diners at the 6 or so tables in front on the quiet shopping centre walkway. My wife knows the cuisine inside-out and I lived out there for years too and I can say the cooking is very well done. We 'd ordered 'spicy ' dishes and it enough spice for us both for lunchtime. Another nice point, it was cooked to be quite low-salt. Salt can always be added so low-salt is a better starting point in these most health conscious days. They also do fresh made 'cook in ' sauces to take home. We bought three, 1) curry, for the classic Malay chicken curry with potato. 2) rendang (for beef or chicken) and 3) sambal (chicken mostly IME, but fish etc also, it 's versatile). We ordered those while having lunch and they were ready and packed within 10 or so minutes. ps. You might want to take some bag/container to carry the packs upright as they were in lidded plastic tubs, not screw-cap or similarly secure. Friendly service. Quite quiet while there at c2.30pm. The shopping centre was so much quieter than I recall from years ago but this retaurant deserves to fully re-open and thrive again as it 's the real deal and with each main about £7-7.50 good value as the portions were deceptively big in their tubs! I suprised myself my totally cleaning up with hardly a pause. Point#2 re: healthier style it was nice to see there was zero sign of any residual frying oil in the pot. I nearly bought the laksa noodle soup, another favourite. I saw a bowl being taken to the adjacent table and that looked spot on, from the big bowl used to the chunks of tofu and garnish on top. Almost worth visiting again from central London just to give that one a go."