Edgware Road, City of Westminster, London… a.k.a. Little Beirut, Little Cairo… you get the picture. I love the place. Well it’s one of my favourite places in London mainly because of the food and also because of the atmosphere. It buzzes with busses, a myriad of people (not just middle-eastern), shisha smoke billows (I love that word) from the ubiquitous Lebanese, Persian and Arabian restaurants. You occasionally get the police and ambulance noisily running through Edgware road (more often than not) and you don’t always know where they’re going, so I can’t say whether it’s the road itself that’s dangerous or maybe some adjacent area that’s the cause of the constant traffic disturbances.
The reason I’m writing this? Because I think I need to document a certain experience I had there as well as some really cool advice given by one of the coolest guys I know in London… Mash. So anyway, I had Mint Tea and Shisha (pictured above) at a Persian restaurant called Palace something, I can’t remember but the decor was really well done and the tea and shisha was delicious!
The place also has it’s setbacks… you can’t get too much of it. It’s an occasional stop off point, but go there often enough and it will bore the hell out of you. What it is is a great place to go out with friends, especially small groups. Big groups have a problem, or would have a problem, only if they want to smoke, most of the middle-eastern restaurants won’t allow 1 or 2 shisha’s for big groups, they’ll insist on you buying more than a few or you can’t smoke.
The best place in London for Shawarma’s (according to Mash) is ‘Cafe Helena’, ‘Melur’ is a brilliant Indonesian restaurant. There are tons of other tid bits of info regarding food on Edgware Road, but I wasn’t taking notes at the time.
This narrative will hopefully be extended in future :)
