Harringay, Haringey - So Good they Spelt it Twice!
Mexican Restaurant for Harringay?
Apparently Pentadaktylos, the Greek Cypriot men's club next to Snug, has now closed.
This marks something of a passing of an era in Harringay.
I've been told that the plan is or a Mexican restaurant, (though a nearby trader told me it's been bought by an Algerian). I guess we'll just have to wait and see, but a good Mexican restaurant would be most welcome.
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Permalink Reply by KP on
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That would definitely be welcome!!! I really miss La Vina. It was great to have a tapas place in the neighbourhood. But a decent Mexican might tempt be out to eat out round here again
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Permalink Reply by Paul Harding on
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I think it's been closed about a year now. It was for lease for months once it was emptied. Would be nice to see something interesting in there, but it's quite small and doesn't have a food license afaik.
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Permalink Reply by Keats Pereira on
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Better than another keyblag shop
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Agreed, I remember when I first moved to the area back in the 80's it was nicknamed Greek Lanes. We lost the last restaurant a few years ago and now the last Greek social club. As a lover of Greece and the language I will miss reading the sign and being cheered up by the site of the old boys playing backgammon. I hope they all find another place to meet. Would be good to get a σουβλάκια - a souvlaki shop in its place. These places are popping up all around London at the moment.
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There's still Marina the Greek between Falkland and Frobisher
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I've heard that Pentadaktylos was a club strictly for five-fingered old Cypriot men. The more prosaic Wikipedophiles, alas, insist it was named for Pentadaktylos, the five-fingered ridge in Cyprus's Kyrenia mountains with a couple of ridiculous myths to explain it.
For the more Homeric among us, Pentadaktylos should be the metrical name for what's more usually termed 'dactylic pentameter' - in English verse often ending with a spondaic or trochaic disyllabic foot. You'll occasionally notice a nice example masquerading as marine prose, late at night after 'Sailing By':
"SHAN-non, cyCLONic beCOMing north-WESTerly, HEADing for ROCKall " . Perfectly hypnophorously pentadactylic with a trochaic lifebelt thrown towards Rockall. Night all.
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