Edit "BG Zakuska Bulgarian Breakfast, IG11 8RW"
Cancel edit
About your edit
Your username (
set it
):
Comment about your changes:
Type of edit:
Normal edit
Minor tidying
Main information
Content: (see also
text formatting help
)
Bulgarian cafe and bakery in [[Locale Barking|Barking]], part of a small chain. It's quite small, with seating for around 20 people inside and four more just under the overhang of the building at the front. The fully-glazed frontage offers a rather uninspiring view onto a roundabout (though bus-watchers will be well satisfied). Terracotta tiles cover the floor, and the walls are painted in orange, grey, and cream. Hot food options are displayed at the counter; these change frequently but examples include chicken and rice, lamb with potatoes, moussaka, and tripe soup. They also do various savoury pastries, cold or heated in a microwave, plus a couple of sweet ones. The selection of pastries available at any given time varies, with freshly baked items being brought out throughout the day. Coffee and tea are available, and a fridge holds imported soft drinks such as ayran (a fermented yoghurt drink) and boza (a fermented wheat/millet drink). The bar in one corner is unused, left over from [[Bongo East, IG11 8RW|the previous occupant]]. [[Kake]] has visited several times now. On a Friday morning in November 2015, there were six other customers in when I arrived around 11:30am, all engaged in lively conversation. A flatscreen was showing a TV drama in the wrong aspect ratio; when this ended, it was switched over to music videos with the sound on, though not too loud. On a Sunday afternoon in September 2016, there were four people inside and four outside at 3:45pm, as well as a steady stream of takeaway customers. The flatscreen was again playing music videos, not too loud. A takeaway cheese and leek banitsa (£1.60 in October 2015) <small>[https://www.flickr.com/photos/kake_pugh/21865844158/ photo whole]</small>, <small>[https://www.flickr.com/photos/kake_pugh/22041335712/ photo cut up]</small> tasted freshly-baked, with soft layers of pastry enclosing salty white cheese and leeks cooked to a gentle sweetness. There was a good balance of leeks to cheese. Ham and cheese banitsa (£1.80 in November 2015) again tasted fresh, but was unevenly reheated, with a big cold bit in the middle. Despite being eat-in, it was served in disposable packaging, as was a cup of tea (70p). Zelevi sarmi (£1.50 in September 2015) <small>[https://www.flickr.com/photos/kake_pugh/29464229753/ photo]</small> consisted of a large leaf of pickled cabbage rolled around a filling of rice and minced pork, coated with a thin tomato sauce. It was served at room temperature, which made the filling a little claggy — it'd have been much nicer hot. The filling was bland on its own, but just right when eaten with the slightly sour pickled cabbage wrapper. This came with a bread basket containing three generous slices of fairly uninteresting bread (at no extra charge). [[Kake]]'s verdict: Fine for a quick bite if you're in the area, though it's probably worth making sure your food is heated properly. Accessibility: A step to get in. Once you're in, it's step-free to the toilet. <div class="last_verified">Last visited by [[Kake]], September 2016.</div>
Locales (one per line) (
view all locales in a new window)
:
Barking IG11
Categories (one per line) (
view all categories in a new window)
:
Bakeries Bulgarian Food Cafes
One-line summary of this page (for search results):
Additional information
Phone:
Website:
Twitter name (e.g. rglondon):
Opening hours:
Address:
Postcode:
OS X coordinate (e.g. 528113):
OS Y coordinate (e.g. 179347):
Map link:
Image to illustrate this page
URL of image:
Photos should be no larger than 240x240
Name of image copyright holder:
URL of image licence:
URL of image's info page:
Cancel edit