Bite Me!

I bought my lunch from the Scandinavian Kitchen the other day.  This turned out to be a good decision, for three reasons:

1) I had a money-off voucher from kgb deals - £5 worth of food for only £1.  Bargain.

2) The guy behind the counter was cute.

3) They sell my favourite little green cakes from Ikea.  This is a great thing, as my nearest Ikea is miles away and I usually just have to beg people to buy them for me when they visit.  You’d think it was a foreign country or something (well, it is Croydon.  That’s practically foreign, right?)  On second thoughts, this is probably not such a great thing, as now whenever I’m around Oxford Circus I’m going to be tempted to go and buy cakes and that will do my figure NO GOOD AT ALL. Hmm. 

So, that aside, I suppose you’ll want to know what the food is like.  Scandinavian, obviously – little Ikea cakes, open sandwiches, a selection of salads – £4.75 will get you two open sandwiches and some salad to take away, or variants thereof (see menu here).  I went for the Greek salad, Greve and radish open sandwich, and blue cheese mash open sandwich.  It was all fresh, and perfectly nice, if a little small for someone with my gargantuan appetite.  The blue cheese mash open sandwich was an exception, being piled so high with blue cheese that I rather wished for the missing slice of bread to even things up a little.

My conclusion?  I’ll probably be back.  If only to flirt with the counter man.  

Scandinavian Kitchen, 61 Great Tichfield Street, London W1W 7PP.  Tel: 020 7580 7161.  They don’t just do food to take away – there’s a café and grocery store too.