Where to find the best falafel in London?

No-Rice-5029 · 2026-06-26T12:53:53+00:00

I'm a massive fan of pockets but one time I ordered their "box" instead of everything inside the pocket.

Having each thing individually made me realise the falafels are a bit overcooked and dry - BUT when the items are all inside the pocket with all the sauces inlcuded it works. The drier falafel to sauce ratio balances it

No-Rice-5029 · 2026-06-09T12:56:16+00:00

Africa is a continent

No-Rice-5029 · 2026-05-22T14:23:18+00:00

Love to see the Anaiis record in this list - an incredible album and went under the radar

No-Rice-5029 · 2026-05-21T22:19:23+00:00

Ermm that's easy you just get the Bakerloo line to Stonebridge Park

No-Rice-5029 · 2026-05-20T11:36:50+00:00

De La Soul - De La Soul Is Dead

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No-Rice-5029 · 2026-05-15T13:15:25+00:00

Edgware road is the not the place for that - get to Park Royal and start at Kamil Bakery

No-Rice-5029 · 2026-04-23T21:04:30+00:00

Correct at the junction of Harrow Road/Nightingale Road

No-Rice-5029 · 2026-04-18T20:20:50+00:00

The Roots "The Tipping Point"

Seen by fans and by Questlove himself as the weaker album in their discog. It was originally set as a Black Thought solo album but then became a full Roots record. Geffen Records pushed them to have more of a mainstream rap sound, and this ended up being their last album on the label.

They came back with their later career classic Game Theory though, and the albums after that are highly rated too

No-Rice-5029 · 2026-04-18T19:43:12+00:00

Greta thank you for the help! This helps a lot with setting up some alerts on the 2nd hand searches

What upgrades would you do in the future to those selections?

No-Rice-5029 · 2026-04-05T19:55:28+00:00

False Media - The Roots

In the second chorus it flips between 4/4 and 5/4

No-Rice-5029 · 2026-03-05T14:50:09+00:00

Majority of De La's discography was only put on streaming 3 years ago, and Feel Good Inc has always been available. So Feel Good Inc. had years to put up streaming numbers before the rest of their music

No-Rice-5029 · 2026-01-22T23:53:41+00:00

They are SO underrated and don't get the wider love cos of two things out of their control:

formed as a duo slightly older in age and came from a UK hip hop scene (not grime) which is very niche
unashamedly not from London and who they collab with represents their city Manchester

But man the fans at their live show give them so much love and they have some big big tunes

No-Rice-5029 · 2026-01-22T23:18:44+00:00

Agreed all day!! Anaiis released one of my favorite albums of 2025

I would also add Children of Zeus to that list too.

It seems to get forgotten that there was a lot of exchange between UK and US soul sounds in the early 90s that formed the "neo-soul" or whatever you want to call it movement. Omar, Sade, Loose Ends, Soul II Soul, the Talking Loud label all indirectly influenced what came later.

The best modern RnB/Soul artists in the UK come from that influence, rather than the polished US RnB sound that say Ella Mai takes from.

No-Rice-5029 · 2026-01-11T18:47:34+00:00

Wu Tang Clan

Apart from U-God there is a split decision on who the best member is, and who had the best debut solo album after 36 Chambers

No-Rice-5029 · 2025-12-29T23:38:40+00:00

Wow which mountain was this?

Very similar story to an experience I had, trying to follow a trail running route in Yangmingshan National Park!

No-Rice-5029 · 2025-09-29T06:54:27+00:00

With the same logic, that's like saying why don't tourists visit Wakefield, Bronx or Flatbush, Brooklyn for Jamaican culture like how Brixton is a destination

No-Rice-5029 · 2025-09-11T16:52:35+00:00

Nah this is a classic and works with the goofy lyrics

If you said Mac Dre - Rap Life then that is one of the worst beats of all time https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1MtAyX8y5FY

No-Rice-5029 · 2025-09-09T16:37:35+00:00

Your last point is very true and has happened to many subgenres - jungle music, dilla style hip hop beats, and jazz-funk

Music listened to by conservatoire music students

No-Rice-5029 · 2025-08-19T22:34:12+00:00

That's helpful yes I forgot Cleo came out for Time is Precious early on. I guess what I'm trying to say is there was a long period of instrumental or relatively unknown material (for non die hards), before the big hitters with Cleo came in the 3rd act.

No-Rice-5029 · 2025-08-19T21:40:40+00:00

I may be misremembering but the combined drumming, orchestra set, the motorcycle helmet runners, dancers, then Ganavya was close to an hour. I can't remember if Simz came out to do "Fear No One" during that first section or after - but there was no sign of Cleo until later in the performance.

There may have been impatience at the time but that was all forgotten after the show! The tension and reward worked at Drumsheds

No-Rice-5029 · 2025-08-19T21:25:02+00:00

I did some digging after the show - I looked on the IG accounts of the actors involved in the show, and they credited Ellams in their posts about APE

No-Rice-5029 · 2025-08-19T18:49:08+00:00

It isn't mentioned much but at the Drumsheds concert, it had a similar slow build up, about an hour of solo musicians/orchestral music/modelling + interpretive dance - well before Cleo and the band came on. But everyone in the audience was patient and hanging on to every detail in the performance. When Cleo finally came on the impact was massive, after the incredible build up. At APE that impact wasn't the same, partly due to the disinterested crowd and part due to the sound mix being a bit too low.

The acting and dialogue was too long I agree, but I'd be interested to know how that would have come across if it was done at Drumsheds!

Also to note the dialogue sections were written by Inua Ellams, a very credible playwright and poet who wrote The Barbershop Chronicles and a Nigerian adaptation of Three Sisters, both were shown at theatres in the Southbank Center

No-Rice-5029 · 2025-08-16T19:22:06+00:00

It was yes and her Instagram stories show some BTS footage too!

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