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LateEats: The Marathon Kebab

We’ve long bemoaned the difficulty of acquiring top notch food at a decent price after the hour or 11pm in London. A city that purports to be a world capital turfs it’s citizens onto the street at closing time where the choice is grim. A bag of chips from the chippy or a pot noodle […]

Welcome to the chain gang

We wrote last week about Londonization, chain eating, the pleasure of knowing the same over-priced menu on ever high street. Well what are we going to do about it? We’re going to tell you what, right here on TrashBlanc.com we’re going to find the very weakest links in an all too familiar rusty toilet chain. […]

A-Z-D: AZBarLondon.com is back

TrashBlanc was in London for a full week last week so our AZBarLondon.com side project got a boost of life. Check out our visit to the Dolphin on Mare Street, Hackney.

Wagamama: Hero to TB zero

(Scene of the detestation, Haymarket Wagamama. Thanks for pic Ewan-M)
Londonization. The French term for the decimation of the high-street by chain stores and chain restaurants. Walk down any street in the UK and you’ll see exactly what they mean. While we at TrashBlanc.com have to ‘fess up at this juncture to a fondness for H&M […]

Late night London

TrashBlanc.com is going to be in New York for eight hours tomorrow  morning. From midnight to 8am to be precise. No doubt we’ll be hungry and there’s zero doubt we’ll be able to find good tasty food at any hour. Especially thanks to the likes of SeriousEats.com and their Late Night guides.
Compare this with the […]

Five pounds of dog

It’s not every day we feel like we’re breaking records here at TrashBlanc.com but surely there’s no more expensive hot dog in the world to be paid for than that at the Gourmet Hot Dog Company.
Is there a business school somewhere that teaches prospective MBAs that if they add the adjective “gourmet” to their food/eatery […]