Root-Master
April 15th, 2009 | 
Author: Root-master is definitely my best address at the moment. I am going to bring all my visiting friends there!
I came accross it completely hasardly. I wasn’t hungry either but c’m'on, this is so iconic: I just couldn’t resist having dinner in a double decker bus! This one actually drove through the capital from 1967 to 1994 and is very atmospheric. Of course, you have to be on the first floor. Candles in the evening, stools on the side, a few tables, a whole corner turned into little sofas and just perfect for celebrations.
I wasn’t disappointed. Rarely have I had such a warm, funny, splendid welcome. They treated me as if I was a favoured regular.
The menu is entireley vegetarian. Intimidates? Don’t be. I’m a carnivore. I never resist a nice a steak. But the root-master burger is just out of this world, it litterally melts in your mouth. It’s so good you don’t even pause to wonder at the fact that there is not a gram of meat in it. And believe me, I have tested my share of burgers, basic, greasy, market ones to food fusion, quality, experimental, delicious, juicy ones. No, for me, this one is the best ever. And the potato wedges are splended too, lightly salted, tender. I wonder if they do extra servings of these? And do try the home made tomato sauce too - what a lovely texture! I hesitated to lick it off the plate. With a ginger lemonade this was nirvana-like.
My only regret? I really, really wasn’t hungry enouh for a desert. The girls at the next table mentionned the Banana Cream pie as being amazing and I am truly intrigued by the Sweet Mumbai carrots - slow cooked carrots with caramel served in a sangunello orange cream sauce, with sanguinello oranges and rum soaked raisins. Sounds finger licking good!
Prices are very reasonable: £6.5 for a burger that is a real meal. Deserts are £5 et £6.5.
Everything is cooked on the ground floor of the bus - and the team is French! That makes me real proud. They focus on being green too – local products, recycling, limiting waste. Take-out dinnerware is made of corn and potato starch and is biodegradable in 180 days.
An easy conclusion: bravo! Keep going!
Parents: the first floor is not for pushchairs (ah! Public transports!) not a baby. However, this is perfectly manageable with a 2-3 year old and +. You can also settle for th outside tables – sounds wonderful on a sunny day especially as the kids can run around on that place safely. You’re only a minute from Brick Lane and a 5 mn walk to the Spitafield City Farm. And if your kids prove fascinated by the bus, get the tube to Covent Garden and take them to the London Transport Museum with its collection of historic buses…
Old Truman Brewery car park
Off Dray Walk,
London, E1 6QL
Metro/tube: Liverpool street
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Je suis passee de nombreuses fois devant ce bus-restaurant sans jamais m’y arrete, il faut dire au’il y a de la concurrence dans le coin…ta description du lieu fait bien envie en tout cas!
Greatings, Where are you from? Is it a secret?
Thanks
C’est veritablement un delice et comme tu passes souvent par Brick Lane…!
J’ai toujours eu terriblement envie d’y aller, mais je me demandais s’il fallait réserver (rapport à la taille)… Quand j’habitais à Londres leur site web était HS, je n’ai donc jamais pu avoir la réponse (et puis j’ai oublié). Mon autre problème c’est que je suis une carnivore, je pourrais manger seulement de la viande… Alors la nourriture bio végétarienne, je reste dubitative…
J’ai toujours pu m’y installer sans reserver. L’ete, c’est sans doute plus facile, beaucoup preferent s’installer sur la place.
Je suis plutot carnivore mais vraiment, le hamburger valait le detour, je n’ai pas regrette mon morceau de boeuf une seconde, promis! Et puis, tu peux faire moitie, moitie? Une entree, une boisson, puis partir a la chasse d’un encas plus carnivore sur Brick Lane?
Un concurrent a ouvert dans Soho:
http://www.veganroutes.org/