"Spud Bros Express is a small pop-up shop in Soho that’s all about jacket potatoes. The queue, which can skirt down the street during the lunch rush hour, moves fast thanks to the speedy servers dousing the fluffy insides of potatoes with garlic butter before messily scooping on beans or smoky chilli con carne (we prefer the classic beans). You’ll find everyone from people in suits trying to spice up their desk lunch, to friends who’ve been drooling over the Preston brothers’ TikTok account for months in the queue. The jacket potatoes are good without being amazing. There are a few topping combinations to choose from, but we’d skip those (the signature ‘tram’ mayo sauce makes everything too sweet) and go for the garlic butter with classic cheese and beans. It’s comforting and incredibly filling—although we wish there was more mature, sharper-tasting cheddar in their three cheese mix. It’s takeaway-only, which is impractical for something like a jacket potato in our opinion, so if you haven’t got an office to take it back to, you’ll have to find somewhere nearby to perch—if the weather’s nice it’s worth walking to Golden Square to find a bench." - Rianne Shlebak
