Category Archives: Lunch

Keto-friendly lunch options in Central London

I’ve had an on-again, off-again relationship with keto for a while now. For those that don’t know, a ketogenic diet is one that severely restricts carbohydrates and keeps protein at moderate levels, whilst dramatically upping the amount of fat that you eat. It’s okay though, because you’ve been lied to your entire life.* It turns

Yalla Yalla, Soho

I had a confusing lunch at Yalla Yalla a few days ago. I’m not really sure what to make of the place. The general consensus seems to be that Yalla Yalla is a Good Thing – just check out the blog posts on its Urbanspoon page. I’ve even been once before and had a reasonably

La Porchetta, Soho

La Porchetta is our office’s default pizza place in Soho. If we ever feel like consuming 1,000 calories or so over lunch, we have this place on speed dial so that our order will be ready for collection when we get there. We dined in recently due to our office’s very generous policy of buying

Thai West Cafe, Soho

I am currently binging on Thai food. Not in a gross literal sense, but still. My last two reviews have been of Thai restaurants; I went back to Esarn Kheaw for seconds last Friday; I had Thai for lunch yesterday (this review); and today I’m going to a Thai restaurant for the office Christmas meal.

Maison Touareg, Soho

We have a new Thursday tradition in our office: we take it in turns at finding a restaurant which costs £10 or less per person. This is easy as we work in Soho, and there are eight of us (we’re a web/social networking startup). The company then very kindly buys us lunch. I think that

Jumbo Eats, Soho

I still remember the first time I went to Jumbo Eats for lunch. I hadn’t been working in Soho for long, perhaps just a couple of weeks, and my co-workers suggested that we go to “Techno Wraps”. I was intrigued. We walked there, and as we got closer the reason for the name soon became