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City Pig’s Summary
Snapshot
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Cuisine:
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American
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Price:
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Average spend £18 per
person (A main, fries, sharing a starters between two and a beer.)
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Healthy:
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Healthy scale 1/5
(Lots of heavy meat and fries.)
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Tasty:
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2.5/5 – Food
3/5 - Drinks
3.5/5 – Service
3.5/5 – Comfort of dining
in
3/5 – Overall rating
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Address:
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Unit 5 Cowcross Street, London, EC1M
6DQ. Nearest tube: Farringdon
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Opening
times
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Monday to Friday – 11am to 11pm
Saturday – 5pm to 11pm
Sunday - Closed
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Eat
in/Takeaway:
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Eat-in
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Recommended
dishes & drinks
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Chicken wings and fries
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Vegetarian
dishes
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Yes
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Loyalty
card
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No
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Website
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Notes
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A chilled out place to
have American style food over beers and cocktails.
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Lazybones is a
chilled out place to eat South American style food. It offers chicken wings,
pulled pork and beef brisket meals. Interestingly, there is popcorn served as
if you were in the cinema. Fries and popcorn can be served in paper bags
where you can add sauces and salt as you wish and then shake up. I saw a few
girls do this and definitely gave off a nostalgic feeling. It reminded me of
those crisps that require a packet of salt to be sprinkled and then you shake
the packet.
This place gives off an American cool retro feeling as soon as you walk in. It is an ideal place to have snacks, a few
drinks or a laid back lunch or dinner with friends. It would be a fun date night
but things can get messy with the food – be warned.
Food is ordered by the bar first which is good as this avoids any waiting around by the table. The drinks menu on
the board has an espresso martini that caught my eye but I chose to have a
strawberry and lime cider, a lighter option. The chicken wings with sweet
chilli was massive and came with a very sweet, tangy, sesame oil and garlic
flavour sauce. This I enjoyed very much as the sauce was very aromatic. Supposedly
I thought they were going to be small wings but these were big. I then
moved on to the pulled pork but was less impressed as the flavour combinations for me was
too peppery and this lingered on my tongue from every bite. The pork was soft
but I was less impressed with the flavours. The slaw was better and so was the bread bun.
The beef brisket was not as tender and was coupled with Mexican flavours - not
what I was expecting.
The large fries are giant size and come without salt. Very tasty and moreish! I am happy to see more restaurants now giving the option to customers to season their fries - keep this going. Not all of us like salty fries .
The prices are
reasonable at £7.95 for pulled pork bun and large fries to be
shared between two or three people at £5.The service was efficient and friendly. It will certainly attract those
after a meaty grub and then a few beers to wash it down - a laddish night out perhaps.
City Pig’s meal
Pulled Pork bun £7.95
Beef Brisket £7.50
Large fries £5
Wings £5.96
Dixie Beer £4.65
Strawberry and Lime Cider £5.25
Total without service charge £36.30
