When visiting London, the biggest expense after accomodation is the food! Avoid the tourist traps of the restaurants in the centre. You may find the menu unexpensive, but they'll get with the drinks in the end, which is a typical London reastaurant scam.
A great place to eat cheaply if you like real curry, is Sweet and Spicy, in Brick Lane, near Aldgate East tube station. It's real curry, unlike most of the surrounding reastaurants that will try to drag you inside (literally!). You can bring you own beer, as the restaurant only sells non-alchoolic beverages. Another cheap eat option, if you like sushi, is the Japan Centre, right in Picadilly Circus, next to the massive Waterstones bookshop. Go inside, ignore the restaurant on the ground floor, and go down the stairs to the food shop. There you can buy prepacked but freshly prepared (you see the food preparers hard at work!) sushi. Buy the drinks there, or go to the nearby Tesco supermarket for it. Then you only need a nice place to sit and eat. I recommend nearby Green Park or Trafalgar Square if the weather is nice, on the inside a bus if it isn't!
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