Things change. Along Queensway the East European grocery shop has become a Mediterranean grocery shop. Other shop fronts (including the currency place where we watched the fire a year ago?) seem to have combined with flats above to become a hotel. We've watched this street for over a quarter of a century. The luggage shop on the corner across from Whitely's once sold roast quarter chickens, though that was a very long time ago. It's gone upscale a bit too. Restaurants and pubs more expensive than they once were and pretty posh cars as well.
Kilburn High Road is our other street. A bit like Queensway used to be. Rough and ready, multi-ethnic. Good local theatre and still some cafés that aren't chains and do attract working class locals. Two of them are on our must try list, but this time we find ourselves drawn back to Roses, where they do both the best lamb kleftiko (though only on a Thursday) and the best fried fish - perfectly done and longer than the plate.
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