The face of Queensway is changing. Oddly enough the first place J and I went out for a meal, some thirty years ago. A fish and chips place that has long since vanished. We’ve tried to identify which shop, or more likely restaurant, it was, but without success. A couple of the souvenir shops go back thirty years, and probably both of the remaining pubs do as well. Think the tiny Lebanese doner place is the old one, though the place where you used to be able to buy a quarter of a roast chicken is long gone, and the Spar store that had a small deli section closed its doors a few years ago, leaving behind a notice that it had been shut down by public health authorities due to rodent infestation.
Coffee shops seem now to be busier than pubs, and there are four on the street, as well as other places where you could have coffee and a biscuit. The two tube stations are, of course, long-standing, although the substantial roadworks in front of Bayswater are new since our last visit and have led to a single lane section and some traffic rerouting. The Marks and Spencer food store is gone, but that does leave two small Tesco and two small Sainsbury outlets, with a full size Waitrose round the corner. There are several restaurants, fast food and regular, and of course the pubs serve meals. We rarely eat here, though. It’s a bit touristy and, while locals may indeed eat here, you never really get that sense the way you do in some other parts of the city that exude a sense of neighbourhood.
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