New Featured Article - SM Pinoy Foods, CR0 1YG

[katstevens]

Hello everyone!

This week's featured article is SM Pinoy Foods, CR0 1YG, a Filipino grocery tucked away inside an otherwise gloomy Croydon shopping centre. We had some excellent prawn crackers and roasted corn from there at the Croydon Fun Weekend a few days ago (you can see the corn in the background here).

New to RGL is the Earl of Essex, a craft beer pub on the back streets of Islington that is, by all accounts, rather pleasant. It's unclear exactly which Earl of Essex it's named after - hopefully not Walter Devereux (born 1541), who massacred a bunch of Irish dudes then died of dysentery, or Robert Deveraux (born 1591), who tried to get his ex-wife executed for telling everyone that he was impotent. At the risk of us all heading down a Wikipedia Wormhole, let's just say it was Thomas Cromwell (born 1485), shall we?

Is there a new or recently done-up place near you? Let us know in the comments and we shall go and have a look at it!

Comments

[ewan]

My feeling (though my books about pub names are at home) is that it was in fact Robert Devereux who is honoured by the pub name. There's also a pub called The Devereux just off the Strand.

[kake]

I'm glad to hear this, since judging by the Wikipedia photos he appears to have had the best facial hair of the three.