Worst Eating Establishment at Euston Station

Is there any way Ramsden's doesn't run away with this?

The Burger King at Euston is kind of a necessary evil, unless you get cocky and order about five minutes before your train leaves and then have to miss your train or abandon your order, in which case it's just evil

Never had food in the Doric Arch (the pub). I can certainly imagine Ramsden's being the worst.

Ah yes, the Doric Arch, that's the one.

Both bagel places are pretty vile.

yeah i chose ixxy's because their bagels are disgraceful and the amount they want for them actually made me laugh one time

i generally go for the pret/eat clone, camden food co.

good poll!

It's really hard to say which one is worst because there are about 10 of them that i know are so shit that i had never tried to compare them to see which is shitter than the other!

i had a WCPC pasty a few weeks back for the first time in ages. still probably the best instantly served hot food you can get at the major rail stations.

yeah ken otm really

Food at Doric Arch is okay.

Does Marks and Spencer Simply Food not count as an eating establishment?

i used to walk down to the station from work to get WCPC

even a small one is good!

i don't know how people eat the large ones

If I nominate Krispy Kreme will a whole new US vs UK clusterfuck start? That'd be entertaining.

(I have never tried to eat in Euston but Harry Ramsden's anywhere seems like a good answer, especially with that worrying "express" tacked on the end)

I thought about M&S, as well as 'Cranberry', but decided no hot food no inclusion.

i don't know how people eat the large ones

you are a disgrace to your country sir

I really do miss the Sbarro's. xpost haha really?

krispy kreme boxes of 12 are still brillio. the extra ingredient is fun.

Upper Crust is reliably bland-but-not-revolting.

it's like £3.10 for some tomato slices in a long piece of hard bread

The ham+mozzarella isn't bad.

i've only ever eaten from the pasty shops, they were good. So I'll be all proper and vote for starbucks.

West Country Pastie Company is awful.

If I nominate Krispy Kreme will a whole new US vs UK clusterfuck start? That'd be entertaining.

PIZZA HUT HACKNEY IS BETTER THAN [INSERT YOUR FAVOURITE NEW YORK PIZZA RESTAURANT]

had a blt from m&s the other day and was SHOCKED at how alright it was, easily better than pret. mucho crispy bacons.

did not enjoy the pasty experience though.

excellent poll!

ham & mozarella thing, had that too, was vom-worthy

xpost Yeah, you wouldn't have said so if you saw me walking around Euston station with a pen and notebook.

you could have been mistaken for a mystery shopper and got free stuff!

Bagel Factory is better than Ixxy's as I recall but bagels are surely the most artificially overpriced food in this country, which is really saying something. Actually hot dogs and station baguettes maybe match it.

more than salads?

I never have WCPC regular pasty companies but I love the veggie ones. Mind you I also love Gregg's veggie pasties so maybe I'm not that discerning.

West Country Pastie Company is awful.

why do you think this? don't give me that 'offends my cornish heritage' line again

Is there any way Ramsden's doesn't run away with this?

-- G00blar, Monday, 7 January 2008 13:01 (1 hour ago) Bookmark Link

^^^this.

And I (l) Ixxy's, that shit was fucking GLAMOROUS to me when I first came to London aged, what, 15 or something.

my only complaint with WCPC is you sometimes get excess of pastry at the edge. sometimes you might get an overdone one or one that's just been there too long and dried up a bit but that's standard fast food risk.

how many M&S branches in London have the hot food to go section? the fajita is nice altho lacks pep

The potato wedges are bad at WCPC as well.

Sausage roll is good, though, if not great. I feel perhaps the sossie roll is the great lost foodstuff of the past decade, the quality of them in 2008 is nowhere near what it was in 1998.

sausage rolls = the trance of british cuisine

^^^qft

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sausage_roll

In Australia, children (and adults) sometimes sing the main chorus as "It's a long way to the shop if you wanna sausage roll" in AC/DC's song It's a Long Way to the Top (If You Wanna Rock 'n' Roll).

Were you looking for evidence of the sausage roll's decline?

WCPC = crap quality meat, basically.

Were you looking for evidence of the sausage roll's decline?

-- G00blar, Monday, 7 January 2008 14:27 (3 minutes ago) Bookmark Link

I wanna know where the malaise set in. Was it when the steak bake took over?

Or maybe it's tied into less garden centres nowadays, so we're not going to garden centre cafes anymore.

"It's a long way to the shop if you wanna sausage roll"

bahaha

those crazy acadackians

WCPC = crap quality meat, basically.

better than most if not all others in the fast food chain game

Yes but I have higher standards when it comes to Cornish pasties. It needs to have large chunks of steak in it and a crust hard enough to batter a Plymouth Argyle fan with, or it aint worth shit.

The Greggs sausage roll is a staggering work of culinary wrongness. It is exactly the same taste and consistency all the way through, regardless of whether it's the pastry or the meat.

I wanna know where the malaise set in. Was it when the steak bake took over?

It was probably around the time when the general public started to realize that sausage rolls weren't a respectable snack, but rather, hell on yr arteries and actually quite gross in their conception. The foodsellers then responded to this shift by saying, 'OK, you think this is nasty? We'll give you nasty'.

It needs to have large chunks of steak in it and a crust hard enough to batter a Plymouth Argyle fan with, or it aint worth shit.

why not just eat beef wellington instead?

I hate it when you can actually taste the swede in a cornish pasty. Does that make me a bad person?

not THAT...

It was probably around the time when the general public started to realize that sausage rolls weren't a respectable snack, but rather, hell on yr arteries and actually quite gross in their conception.

Yeah right like this has ever been a concern for the British public.

as for myself, i prefer chip rolls

Please let's not have a 600 post "Actually they're called chip baps/cobs/butties" thread. Thanks.

Jeez, I don't think I've ever eaten at any of these places - I'd rather get a pre-packaged sarnie from the chiller at WHSmith for the train. Where would on-train catering rank amongst this lot, supposing you had actually found a £20 note on the floor outside Paperchase and thought, "I'd treat meself"?

I'll go for Upper Crust based on roof-of-mouth-damage from other branches.

voted Camden Food Co on principle

i'd rep for Greggs bloomer sandwiches still, the granary ones at least.

Delice de France

They're not from France and they are not delicious.

Burger Joker more like

Maybe instead of having 15 different places to buy food, maybe next time they could trying having 'only' five places that are each three times better?

Or is that not how it works?

why must every moderately successful store in the UK be immediately turned into a chain?

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Marks and Spencers food is all really good. Most of their sandwiches etc. Prawn mayo sandwich for 2 euro, you can't go wrong.

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Well that's that sorted out.