The Station Grill

The Station Grill was well known in the Kennington area since some time after the the last war. It was distinctive because it was somewhere between a cafe and a restaurant in that it was open in the evenings for cheap and wholesome meals and was licensed. The serving of house red was extremely generous.

The proprietors had come from Cyprus (I think) and the wife was often to be seen during the day siting in her traditional all black clothes in the window.

Then in the late Nineties they decided to retire back to their motherland. They had two sons one of whom had been to catering college and had some fancy ideas of how the Station Grill could become a chic restaurant serving Nouvelle Cuisine or some such. Anyway the local clientele refused to pay the inflated prices for pretentious fare and the tarted up Station Grill dead in the water. It doesn't look like it will reopen. The flat above is let.

The end of an era.

Szczels 16:02, 27 Nov 2004 (GMT)