I ordered Manchurian beef (dry), Hakka noodles, Vegetable momos and spring rolls from Hakka Chinese Kitchen. We liked it. I’ve mostly been ordering from Congee Chan over the last 2 years, but I really liked this place. First experience with Hakka food in LondonOn. This Hakka restaurant keeps halal.
Small place, but they have at least half a dozen tables in the dining area.
Update — I’m heading to Stratford for some late-season theatre, and in doing some advance research, I see that AO Pasta Shop has reopened the restaurant for lunch only, Tuesday to Friday, dine-in and takeout options available.
I am now planning breakfast at Old Man, lunch at AO, dinner at The Bruce.
I’ve only tried a Bombolone at AO pasta this year, which was good!
The Chef’s School offers dinner some nights, with reservations through Tock.
Enjoy your time in Stratford.
I visited the Slow Food Market in Stratford today, which closes at the end of Oct. There were around a dozen vendors.
Stratford has very few independent restaurants open for brunch or lunch on Sunday these days.
Bentleys, the Hub and Mercer Kitchen had their patios open today.
I planned to order takeout brunch from Old Man, to take to a picnic table at the market square. I was turned off while I was waiting to order.
I decided to get takeout from The Parlour instead. The servers were really friendly, and made me feel welcome. The Croque Madame was excellent , and Fish & Chips were pretty good. It took around 20 minutes to prepare.
https://www.theparlour.ca/dining_menu.htm
I might revisit Mercer Kitchen another time. It’s been over 5 years since my last visit.
Mercer Kitchen Patio today
I picked up a lavender blueberry scone at Revel which was pretty good.
Rheo Thompson had a massive line inside, so I walked over to Chocolate Barrs. I didn’t realize how much they had expanded since the move from Ontario St. I bought a box of dark chocolate coffee creams, butter creams, salt caramels and caramel marshmallow (like Buttermallow that Laura Secord stopped making) chocolates, some fruit jellies and a pecan roll (memories of 1970s & 1980s Laura Secord offerings!)
I miss buttermallows…
Excellent goulash soup, goulash (main) and pork schnitzel from the Budapest on Dundas St tonight. I’ll be back sooner than later. The dinners included soup or salad and a dessert. First time for me to try Somloi Gusta, a trifle with vanilla custard, cake, chocolate, nuts and rum.
Los Comales is closing this month.
Fancy Tarts closed at some point this past summer.
I will start a new London, Ontario thread in the New Year.
We were in Cambridge for the past 4 years and shopped at many bakeries at least once and they were all good.
However, Cambridge has a large Portugese population and bakers who cater to them. We’re in Guelph now, but still return for excellent custard tarts, corn bread, and buns at these two establishments:
Azores Bakery http://azoresbakery.ca
Silva’s Portugese Bakery, 45 McLaren Ave, Cambridge, ON N1R 8K9
There are oa few others thers as well that we never visited
AnnDining in London has upscale pizza. I will report back after I have tried it.
https://www.anndining.com/
https://order2.silverwarepos.com/app/anndining#!/menu
I will also try take-out from Sagi in Wortley Village soon.
The next place I will try for Thai food is Sai Thai Chef on Wharncliffe.
I had take-out twice this week!
Tried the octopus, scallops, salmon and tempura Brussels sprouts at ANNDining. All quite good. Maybe a little too salty for me, but tasty. Interesting flavors. Nice to be able to order their upscale food online. Some portions are precious, small for the price tag. 4 medium scallops in the scallop dish, salmon might have been 4 ounces, around 4 ounces of octopus. Generous portion of tempura Brussels sprouts, although they were a little greasy for me.
Saturday, I ordered a big feast from Yasmine’s.
Little beef sausages in a pomegranate sauce, Lebanese moussaka, their Zesty eggplant, lahmacun, kibbe, a kofta kabob, a beef shishkabob, and seasonal vegetables. Everything was good, if not excellent. I had lahmacun, a bit of kofta and beef kabob for breakfast!
Canadian prices. I have been ordering enough for 4 people, and both nights, the meal came to around $100 Cdn before tax and tip. ($104 at ANNDining and $101 at Yasmine’s)
Yasmine’s provides more bang for the buck. (I knew that!)
We ordered from Yasmine’s this past Saturday as well! It’s one of our favourites for solid takeout. We both had the chicken shawarma plate and we shared a fattoush salad.
Just wanted to say thanks for all your posts about food options here in London, ON/SWO. Looks like we have visited a lot of the same spots. I’ll try to remember to post here once in a while 
I ordered original katsu (a bento with chicken or pork katsu, rice, pickled daikon , macaroni salad, cabbage salad and tonkatsu sauce, tonkatsu ramen, extra cabbage salad and a rainbow roll from Katsu Express, unintentionally.
I meant to order from Katsuya, 2 blocks further south on Richmond Street.
I liked the original katsu. The tonkatsu ramen was just okay. The toppings were good but the ramen noodles themselves were not good. I would skip the sushi rolls at Katsu Express.
I will try Katsuya next time.
I’ll also try Plaza Sushi, which is a new Japanese spot for sushi in London, and getting some positive reviews on Reddit.
I tried Company Bar in Wortley Village, which is sceney place for London.
The side patio had less airflow than the front patio.
They serve happy hour with half price oysters and charcuterie during the week.
We tried the shishito peppers, ricotta toast with xo sauce and freshly fried potato chips with a beer and cheese sauce (they held the bacon. The food was good. . I had a non alcoholic margarita called a gnarita which I liked, it contained Seedlip. ($12). My friend had a craft beer. I will go back, but I will sit on the front patio. Busy place!
Company Bar is owned by the Wolfe brothers who also own Los Lobos and Through Thick and Thin Pizza.
Their restaurants can be on the style over substance side, but the food is usually tasty.
Fish and chips takeout from Archie’s on Wharncliffe was okay. Archie’s currently has 3 locations in London. The food is pretty good, and it’s convenient. The staff are friendly.
The fish fillets are thinner, the fries are okay at best. The coconut shrimp were a nice change. Coleslaw is not included with the dinners at this Archie’s location.
Kipp’s Lane Fish and Chips and Luan’s fish and chips taste better. Archie’s is much quicker.
Birria quesadilla, lengua tostada and churros from Mexican House in Cherryhill Village Mall. The owner will also be running a full service restaurant in the old Prince Albert Diner space on Richmond St at Albert St downtown.
New bubble tea and Asian roll cakes at Galaxy Cafe in Cherryhill Village Mall. I haven’t tried anything yet.
My pleasure!
Happy to hear you like many of the same places.
Yasmine’s has been one of my favourites for takeout. I order from there maybe once every 2 months.
The LdnOnt spots on our regular take-out rotation the past 2 years have become Kipp’s Lane Fish & Chips, Yasmine’s, Budapest, David’s, Craft Farmacy and Byron pizza.
Sagi of Wortley and the Thai spot in South London are next on my list. I also want to try a few more Chinese spots that have opened up.
I am sometimes picking up some tips on Reddit,
Box Lunch is open only a few days a week. It looks tempting. I haven’t been yet.
I noticed there’s a new Nigerian restaurant on Market Lane, as well as a newish Brazilian stall at the market.
Churis Bread Bakery on Adelaide has a stall at the market, too. I’ve only tried the location on Adelaid. They sell pao de queijo, which I haven’t seen in London until recently.
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I’m guessing I’ve ordered a dozen enchiladas in Canada in the last 20 years and I’ve given up. The Mexican-run places focus on tacos and stews, and the Canadian-run and Salvadoran-run places don’t know what they’re doing when it comes to enchiladas.
To put it into perspective, Chi Chi’s enchiladas in the 1980s before ChiChi’s left Canada, would be an 8/10, and the enchiladas I’ve been ordering would be a 5/10.
Food costs are rising quickly and several London, Ontario restaurants have closed since I started this thread. Some restaurants that were offering take-out in 2020, 2021 and 2022 no longer offer take-out.
Here is the newer London, Ontario take-out thread. [London, Ontario] take-out
