Tipped

good food

August 22, 2009

went there last thursday. Great green curry and the rice was pretty special. Service a little slow but the food makes it worth the wait.

Keywords: great curry

Sunny people watching spot

June 26, 2009

Stopped at The Lauriston for a few drinks before dinner. Great spot with a few sunny, street-side tables, excellent for watching the people heading to, from Victoria Park. They have a nice selection of beers and decent wines too. Quite like the photography on the walls too.

Good coffee, great for the laptop

March 02, 2009

Good coffee, great for the laptop and working or studying out of home.

Some more laptop friendly cafes like this one can be found on this great little site:

http://www.laptopfriendlycafes.com/london

Keywords: laptop, friendly, cafe, london, free, wifi, coffee,

It's on at the Lauriston

January 25, 2009

I was surprised how much I like this place and sad that it took so long to check it out.

It was so laid back and drinks and food were dirt cheap.

I went on a quiz night (wed) and it was fun but it helps having more than 2 people on your team!

Its known for their pizzas and they had a lot of choices. Personally I wouldnt get the seafood pizza because I now dont believe seafood and pizza belong together. But the stuff I saw coming out the oven looked deelicious.

Will be back there

Great local pub!

Keywords: local pub, cheap, down to earth, pizza

Eastenders Adopt Trendy

December 06, 2008

I live very close to the Lauriston... but it took me almost a year to go in there. It looks very Islington "I'm in my early 30's and a yuppy" so I always thought it was best the likes of my belligerent ass avoid it.

However recently a friend of mine started putting on a pub quiz every other Wednesday night there so I decided it was time for me to give it a go.

Victoria Park Village is a weird little enclave of middle class suburbia smack in the middle of Cockney east end London. I'm not particularly keen on it since I usually love all things Cockney and hate all things middle class, but I do occasionally wander around and buy a four quid cupcake. However the Lauriston seems to be a nice little exception to the VPV exclusionary rule.

In the Lauriston habitat trendy yuppies and working class Cockneys freely mix in a conglomeration of medium priced booze, and deliciously cheap pizzas. You're more than likely to see some pierced, ripped jeans model photographer having a ciggy next to an orange-tinted lovely wearing little to no clothing. I like it.

The pub quiz was hilarious. Not only because the very entertaining host wears a sequined jacket, but it's packed and rowdy and filled with Eastenders shouting which always makes for excitement. Although I didn't win the quiz, I still had a good time and usually I'm a pretty sore loser.

All in all I'm not ashamed to admit I was wrong... the Lauriston is actually a cool place to come for a few bevies and people watch, and the Wednesday quiz is a definite must. If you do go, make sure you heckle the quiz host as much as possible; his name rhymes with "bonking".

Keywords: Good Pub Quiz, cheap pizza