Sen Nin, Islington branch is an expensive looking teppanyaki restaurant that isn't actually that expensive and has an incredibly reasonably priced express lunch menu, which is available on Saturdays.

Appetisers such as gyoza, edamame are £2.50, bento, rice bowls, sushi, or noodles are all £5 each

Gyoza (not pictured …

Banh Mi Town would make a fantastic lunch stop but is also good for a healthy, quick meal in Central London, away from the craziness and tourist traps of Soho/ Oxford Street.

They aren't licensed so if, for example, you're visiting as an early evening pit stop en-route to a …

this is officially the most rapid way to inhale calories that does not involve consuming pure saturated fat

Butter Tart Squares: "Square" (ie. tray-bake) version of Butter Tarts, a "quintessentially Canadian" dessert, shortbread-type base, with the topping/ filling a combo of sugar/ eggs/ butter and raisins/ walnuts.

Similar to: pecan …

Recipe adapted from the Everybody Eats Well in Flanders' almond cookie recipe

I used all butter, omitted the vanilla essence, and used caster sugar (icing sugar had run out, I prefer a slightly less crumbly cookie, and it's so much more manageable). Reduced the amount of baking powder to almost …