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Kalamata Olive Paste?

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NotQuiteCockney · 19/05/2005 18:06

The title says it all, really. Where can I find some? Sunita used to make some, but our local health food store doesn't stock it any more. I can get it at Broadway Market, but it only keeps for a little while. I want something that will keep in the fridge for a while.

(I guess I could make it myself, but I hate hate hate pitting things.)

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snafu · 19/05/2005 18:13

Are you in Hackney then, nqc? Doesn't the big Tesco's on Mare St have any?

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NotQuiteCockney · 19/05/2005 18:27

I'm in Mile End. Haven't tried that Tesco's. I have tried Ocado. Hmm, maybe I should try the big Sainsbury's, or the Waitrose at Canary Wharf?

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snafu · 19/05/2005 18:33

Oooh, yes, forgot about Waitrose. Much more likely, I reckon. There's Fresh & Wild in Old St too (bit of a trek just for that though) Or what about the deli next to Frocks in Viccy Park?

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NotQuiteCockney · 19/05/2005 19:17

Oh, I like the sound of Fresh & Wild, it's near the Old St Roundabout, isn't it?

If by the deli next to Frocks, you mean, the Frocks deli, it's gone.

You'd think Eau a la Bouche (in Broadway Market) would have some, I should ask them if they can get me some. The stuff I can get in Broadway Market is from one of the stalls, and it comes from a big bucket.

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NomDePlume · 19/05/2005 19:24

Tesco make their own in the Finest range, alsorts of diffent variations too.

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NotQuiteCockney · 19/05/2005 19:39

Ah, NDP, we do have a Tesco's not that far away. Presumably it's the sort of thing that a bigger Tescos would do, more than a smaller one ...

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snafu · 19/05/2005 19:41

Ulp. When did Frocks's deli go??

hoxtonchick · 19/05/2005 19:55

tesco's on mare st is full of nutters....

NomDePlume · 19/05/2005 19:57

I would think so, NQC, my local Tesco is pretty generously proportioned

NomDePlume · 19/05/2005 20:04

They sell the Finest Tapenade on Teasco online

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NotQuiteCockney · 19/05/2005 20:37

snafu, Frock's deli went ages ago - even before the Frock's fire. I don't think it was making money. I think Eau a la Bouche has taken a lot of their market, anyway, and are doing it much better.

There's a lovely new Vietnamese place just off the big roundabout there, by the way, just north east of Frocks. Really nice food, very reasonable prices.

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NotQuiteCockney · 19/05/2005 20:38

hoxtonchick, do you mean nutters? or mumsnetters? (or is there a difference?)

NDP, I've not tried Tescos online, it's probably not worth it for just olive paste. I think I looked at them before deciding on Ocado, but they didn't have enough organic meat.

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hoxtonchick · 19/05/2005 20:39

i mean proper bona fide nutters nqc! broadway market on the other hand is very classy & 5 minutes walk from our house. hooray.

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NotQuiteCockney · 19/05/2005 20:40

Broadway Market is a long walk from ours, or a short bike ride, but I love it there. I know the owner of Eau a la Bouche, and the bread they have ... oooh. Also, the tomato stand, the knitting shop, it's such a nice little urban oasis.

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hoxtonchick · 19/05/2005 20:42

our favourites are the 3 seed bread, the giant baked beans & as much cake as ds & i can sneak past dp .

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NotQuiteCockney · 19/05/2005 20:44

Oh, and the Chicken B'Stilla, the sausisson sec, the proper pate, the French yoghurt. Hmm, I think we're hitting Broadway Market this Saturday again.

The Market itself is such a nice little improvement - I did antenatal yoga at the new agey place, and I remember that street as always being more than a bit dead, other than Little Georgia.

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hoxtonchick · 19/05/2005 20:45

i so agree. we've been here 3.5 years & the change in that time is amazing. i like the gastro-pub near the park, but not too keen on the new owners of little georgia. have you been to armadillo? fabulous.

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NotQuiteCockney · 19/05/2005 21:02

I've been to armadillo once, it was good. I liked ikubo or whatever it was called, in the old location, haven't been that much since it moved. There are a couple of new restaurants up there that I haven't been to at all, I think.

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hoxtonchick · 19/05/2005 21:04

yes ikubo was much better when it was the old cafe, i spent much of ds' pregnancy in there eating chocolate cake.

snafu · 19/05/2005 21:21

I went to the new pub on the corner of BM a few weeks ago when visiting my bro in his fabulous new bachelor pad and it was 'lovely'. I love it round there, miss it terribly.

I did antenatal yoga at Holistic Health, NQC - is that the place you mean?

snafu · 19/05/2005 21:22

Oh! Armadillo - best steak I have ever eaten.

hoxtonchick · 19/05/2005 22:01

sounds like we need to have a broadway market meet up!

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NotQuiteCockney · 19/05/2005 22:24

Snafu, that is where I mean. Dinosaur did antenatal yoga there too - Julie Sumner? I did postnatal yoga there, as well.

A Broadway Market meet would be great. Aren't there a fair number of Hackney mumsnetters? (dinosaur and jj are both in Hackney)

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