OFM readers vote the south London pasta joint – and Instagram favourite – the best place for cheap eats in Britain
The Brits are rightly renowned for their love of queuing, be it for buses, Wimbledon or the January sales, but when Padella set up their no-bookings pasta joint this spring, they knew they were taking a punt. After all, who in their right mind queues for a bowl of spag bol?
Quite a lot of us, as it turns out, though it wasn’t exactly the smoothest of openings. Jordan Frieda winces: “The bank almost pulled out in the last week of the build.” That, combined with a few other hiccups, convinced him they were doomed, “but on that first morning, we were having a team meeting when the queue started forming. By the time we’d finished, the numbers outside scared the crap out of us.”
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