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Entry tags:
- bloomsbury,
- bookshops,
- borough,
- camberwell,
- featured article,
- islington,
- japanese food,
- lambeth,
- london bridge,
- moving,
- museums,
- music shops,
- n1,
- n16,
- pubs,
- record shops,
- reopenings,
- reported closures,
- se1,
- se5,
- secondhand shops,
- shops,
- soho,
- stoke newington,
- supermarkets,
- sushi,
- temporary closures,
- w1,
- wc1
New featured article — Lucky Seven, Stoke Newington, N16
Happy New Year! This week's featured article is Lucky Seven, a second-hand bookshop and (mostly) record shop in Stoke Newington. I went there for the first time the other week having not even registered its existence before and it was filled with things from floor to ceiling, often precariously piled and stacked.
One temporary closure is Imperial War Museum, for six months.
Three reported permanent closures are, very sadly, Hoopers Bar, an excellent real ale-loving local in between Camberwell and East Dulwich; the Camberwell branch of Wing Tai; and the N1 Centre branch of Yo! Sushi (in Islington, that is). The last is the least sad, as I've ranked them on a sliding scale. Feel free to disagree with my ranking (unimportant as it is) in comments.
Also, Foote's Music has moved from Soho to Bloomsbury, so take note, music instrument fans.
In more positive news, a pub has reopened! In this case, The Wheatsheaf by Borough Market (no, not that one), meaning there are now two competing Wheatsheafs within a few steps of one another, ostensibly the SAME PUB (the first was opened when this pub closed for the Thameslink work and the management went around the corner to the Hop Exchange).