Tea and Cakes at V&A Museum Cafe

To be honest, I prefer cakes and treats from independent bakeries but I visited the V&A Museum cafe because a friend wanted to go.

The food at the Museum cafe is helmed by Benugo which you will find at quite a few places.

Overall, I was quite impressed with their cakes which were not too sweet and tasty as well as being affordable.

Hakka Noodles at Apna Adda Indian Street Food

Apna Adda is a hole in a wall eatery in the hustle and bustle of Leicester Square.

It is easily missed as it is literally a small shop.

Prices for Indian food are affordable and the menu serves a good range of starters, biyanis and curries.

I felt that I had to try the Hakka noodles as they had them there and I didn't fancy having them in an expensive place.

Sadly, they were disappointment as they noodles were not even hot and very salty.

The chewy chicken pieces were the worst and taste like left over chicken that were salted to disguise that.

Apna Adda:

Leicester square

Malibu courtside confession with pizza from VooDoo Rays

It's summer and what better to do than enjoy the sun with refreshing malibu!!!

I attended the Malibu courtside confession at Brixton Jamm where a Malibu party was held.

There was a mini artificial sand beach and huts with glitter booths and pizza from VooDoo Rays.

The drinks were amazing so were the pizzas but I couldn't quite taste the blue cheese in the pizza.

Bread Ahead doughnuts

Bread ahead is like the doughnut king at Borough market, you will always find queues at the stall.

It is also a bakery school hence you can expect quality bakery.
Finally gave their doughnuts a try which start at £2 for a plain one where filled ones cost £4.50.

To summarize their doughnuts are well filled with so many indulgent choices like pistachio, Eton mess, honeycomb etc.

I felt that I had to try a plain as well as pistachio and vanilla custard which was a popular choice.

Overall, I enjoyed the plain one the most as it was simple and satisfying, the texture of the doughnut was spot on being soft with a chew and slightly bready.

The filled custard was a bit too rich for me and the pistachio creme lacked pistachio taste.

To summarize I would only reccommend the plain and definitely a bargain for £2 if you compare it to other plain ones which cost more than that at kiosks and other cafes.

vanilla custard doughnut from bread ahead

plain doughnut from bread ahead

pistachio doughnut from Bread Ahead

eton mess

Revisited again in late august 2024 because of the new black to school doughnut.

Great to see a notable bakery doing old fashioned back to school jam cream doughnuts in a touristy area so more people can know about it. 

Overall, you get the bread ahead signature fluffy and soft doughnut with jam and a custardy cream.

It was quite nice but the frying oil was a bit strong which you can taste on the doughnut surface.

The custard was not too sweet but a little starchy and the seeds were a little bit annoying. 

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Greggs Bakery opens in Leicester Square

In this day and age, it is sad to see many traditional British bakeries struggle and many have disappeared like Percy Ingles.

It is good to see that Greggs have been successful with so many branches and they even did a collab with Primark and launched some great clothing merchandize with another round in August 2022.

Greggs have always been affordable serving delicious sausage rolls and bakes as well as vegan options.

A few weeks ago they opened right in the heart of Leicester so you can get your sausage roll cravings satisfied which will provide a cheap fix in amongst all the expensive eateries nearby!

On a super hot day, I went to the opening and queued up for the VIP access where you get a non alcoholic bubbly and a delicious free sausage roll.

Overall, I had an amazing time saw Queen Pasty!

Greggs kept everyone hydrated that day giving out Greggs water!

Early scallop breakfast at Billingsgate cafe

Most people visit Billingsgate fish market for fresh seafood as they supply wholesale.

Sadly when I visited many years ago for oyster I didn't know about the cafe which serves scallops and other stuff like kipper and fish etc.

Ever since I found about the scallops I have been meaning to go but the cafe closes around 9am so best to get there really early so you have time to enjoy the breakfast.

I really wish I had found out earlier as the prices have increased so much.

Finally made it one day when it was one of those days where you some how wake up really early so I took that opportunity and went by impulse.

Overall, I was so glad I went!!!

Not only did they have scallop breakfasts, they had an amazing selection of teas like apple crumble which come from ASDA!!

More fascinating, I was stunned why there were noodles on the menu so I asked what sort of noodles they were and they said it was Chinese noodles which are available on Monday mornings.

So in a way, it has made me curious to go and check it out sometime but it really takes effort to get up and go there.

Since I was there, I ordered the scallop bacon roll and scallop breakfast all to myself!

The crusty roll was amazing and the scallops were as good as expected, fresh and bouncy.

The bacon was on the dry and hard side though.