London’s Best-Value Restaurants | Where to Eat Cheap But Not Cheap Eats | Eater London

"West Green Road’s The Bash may be the best Congolese restaurant in London by virtue of being the only one, but it’s still right up there with London’s essential West and East African joints. Most of the dishes that make it worth travelling to Tottenham are off menu and have to be requested, so just ask. Pondu, for example — cassava leaf, stewed greens chock full of chlorophyll and lifted by pieces of smoked fish. Ntaba/taba is Congolese barbecue, infused with smoke and paired with a scalp-sweating hot sauce. But it’s the fish here that shines the most: a whole malangwa (pangasius) full of meaty flesh without any dryness, with aromatic ginger enlivening an onion and tomato sauce." - Jonathan Nunn