Queensway

I'm off to the Red China restaurant tomorrow lunchtime. My wife managed to hand over her old job to one of her friends so we're being taken out for lunch as a thankyou. I'll blog how it was.
Red China's in Queensway. We were there last week after attending the Portobello Film Festival at the Inn on the Green near Ladbroke Green station. We worked via Portobello Market (Good place to go) to Queensway and went to a Lebanese Cafe. The food was ok. The staff all had badges with the leader of Hizbollah on it.

On that trip, we also walked through Hyde Park. They had "Blue Velvet" screened in the open-air by the southside of the Serpentine, but as we'd had to wait ages to watch "Donnie Darko" at a similar event last year, we didn't hang around.

We saw Diana's memorial by the Serpentine. Sadly, it was all fenced off. Don't know if it was because it was late by then or if it's normally like that.

After walking through Hyde Park, we took a bus from Knightsbridge and got off at Regents Street. Went in a couple of bars in the Carnaby Street area. Alphabet Bar was ok, but looked like it had seen much better days. The leather armchairs had big chunks eaten out of them, and the map of London on the floor was pretty worn away. We ended up in 2 Floors which is opposite the Kingly club, which I believe Prince William's been to recently. When we went downstairs, we saw a blonde in a long formal red evening dress which we thought was unusual as nobody else was so dressed up. Then when we sat up the top, there were lots of arty looking young guys in the street opposite. After a few minutes, I noticed that a Camera was pointed at the bar. The blonde and a companion then took about 15 takes over the next 45 minutes of them walking out of the bar. Don't know what film it was, but I'm sure to be in the background.