Harringay, Haringey - So Good they Spelt it Twice!
I've heard there is a web site for trendy bar names and cafés is there any truth to this?
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Permalink Reply by Michael Anderson on
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Sadly Matthew, it's true
http://www.wordlab.com/gen/restaurant-bar-name-generator.php
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Permalink Reply by Alan Stanton on
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Michael, this is brilliant!
But you've missed the entire point. The software randomly displays one of the ten billion cool real names of all the edgy, buzzy, must-visit bars, cafés and restaurants in the entire world.
So don't be sad. Get going. http://www.skyapple.co.uk/
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Alara on Marchmont Street is one that I actually know the history of. It was founded yonks ago by ALex and CiARA Smith.
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Permalink Reply by matthew cuthbert on
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NoHa and SoHa, where do you live in Harringay Village...? Don't tell Winkworth's
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Sa An, off Gr La?
There's a cafe/ bar called Green Lanes Cafe, I don't think a web site was involved.
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Matthew do you really want fake place names generated by machines; estate agents; corporations which buy naming rights; and pharoah-like billionaires who demolish buildings to erect their own monuments?
From time to time I've caught - out of the corner of my eye, in libraries and exhibitions - glimpses of the vast treasure houses of Chinese and Japanese place names. And - with profound and shameful ignorance and no time to do anything about it - heard distant murmurs about poets who praise those places and tell stories of the events which took place and the people who live or once lived there.
If you're gonna invent names, at least try to make-up beautiful, memorable, poetic and intriguing names.
Apologies if I've completely misunderstood. Perhaps Sa-An-Off-Gr-La is the name of the tiny Ruritanian village where you grew up. Can you translate it for us? Sing one of its songs?
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https://hanoi-pho.uk is real, Harringay Noir no?
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Permalink Reply by Sarah on
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There are so many unimaginative business names in the area. In one of Matthew Baylis' Rex Tracey books he talks about the business names in Stamford Hill - a fictional business is simply called "Vegetables" but it's the same everywhere!
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But don't you think that plain and descriptive can also be attractive in its own way? Or a business name which suggests some real family history - in Stamford Hill, Grodzinski & Daughters comes to mind.
On the other hand, "Dirty Bagels"in Spitalfields Market might stick in the memory. But perhaps for the wrong reasons?
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Still in Stamford Hill Alan, the wonderful Egg Stores. I love the idea of a shop whose sole suppose was to sell eggs.
https://leftoverlondon.wordpress.com/tag/stamford-hill/
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