April Fool`s Day. Could this be referring to the weather? A day mostly poking around the shops on Kilburn High Road, which ends, predictably, with our eating at Roses (spelled rightly or wrongly without the ubiquitous apostrophe). It's not only wonderful prices for home cooked meals but, as far as we can tell, almost entirely local clientele. A very mixed lot it is. The earlier settlers of Kilburn were Irish and there are still Irish pubs and Irish newspapers sold, but the street now is full of Asians, Caribbean blacks and Moslems and the ethnic restaurants and window signs are highly multicultural. My favourite still is:
NAJLEPSZY KEBAB
[unknown word in Arabic writing] HALAL
Najlepszy the Polish for best.
As to the local clientele at Roses, the waitresses are East European and when Joe admires the baby at the next table both J's compliment and the mother's thanks are in Polish.
NAJLEPSZY KEBAB
[unknown word in Arabic writing] HALAL
Najlepszy the Polish for best.
As to the local clientele at Roses, the waitresses are East European and when Joe admires the baby at the next table both J's compliment and the mother's thanks are in Polish.