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Ariana's Cafe
I'm currently sitting in Ariana's Cafe, on the corner of Fonthill Road and Lennox Road. According to the guy behind the counter, it's been open for a year. How is it that I've never been here before?
So far, I've only tried the coffee, which is surprisingly drinkable. The music is a bit shite, but at least it's quiet. The fridges are a tad too loud, but now I'm just being picky. The best thing is that for a good half an hour, I was the only person here.
From now on, Good for Food will be my socialising cafe. Ariana's is my new work cafe. I just need to learn to turn off wi-fi....
So far, I've only tried the coffee, which is surprisingly drinkable. The music is a bit shite, but at least it's quiet. The fridges are a tad too loud, but now I'm just being picky. The best thing is that for a good half an hour, I was the only person here.
From now on, Good for Food will be my socialising cafe. Ariana's is my new work cafe. I just need to learn to turn off wi-fi....
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I did mention it ages ago (http://www.stroudgreen.org/discussion/622/ariannas-cafe-sp/#Item_5) but spelt the name wrong...
The man is very nice. After I posted my last comment, the music improved dramatically with a bit of Bowie. It has since gone downhill again with James Blunt. Ugh.
I've just had a lovely grilled veg and mozzarella pannini. It came with some salt and vinegar crisps and a pile of lettuce, masquerading as a salad. Overall, not bad at all.
I shall have to come back for brunch.
I had a tuna jacket potato and my boyfriend had a paninni. It was very tasty but most of all I liked the atmosphere sitting outside. The waitresses were friendly but very busy. We also had a fruit salad which was just divine on a hot day like today. So I'd definitely recommend it and go back.
I had breakfast there today, Sunday. Full English (<i>St George's</I>) breakfast, nothing special, and the room needed the heat turned up. It was chilly in there by the window ... well, it is all window. Bitter coffee too. And, OMG, my clothes acquired the smell of scorched lard ... the place just reeked of frying.
If it is a regular breakfast greasy spoon I am after, and I happen to be only a couple of minutes away (unlikely), then it is probably fine, but otherwise, I will not make the journey again. Well, not for breakfast.
First and foremost, two really nice women on duty, one of them Ariana herself, an Albanian who has been here for 12 years, and speaks excellent English, and is plainly highly intelligent.
The other lady is from Rumania, but has lived in Rome, so we spent some time airing our Italian. I was able to ask her to prepare my capp all'italiana, and, devo dire, it wasn't at all a bad try (do you know this place, Krappy? M'interesserebbe sentir il suo aviso).
Across the way, a large party, eating burgers, salad and chips, all of which looked nice, and well prepared.
PS. Hello, Greg! I didn't know you were a stroudgreenorgiast, and a fan of Ariana's. This is Mike, and I play for Mark's community choir.
(Anyone coming today, by the way? 5.45 - 7.15, if you're interested, but ) -
SORRY, WRONG THREAD!
.......did you ever take that test yourself?
As for intelligence tests, Dorothy, I suppose I have taken one or two, in my time. They were all the rage when I was a child. But mostly it is some ineffable quality in a brainy person's discourse that strikes me - no test needed - but perhaps it doesn't work that way for you.
I took my Mum there once, claiming the cappuccino was drinkable. it wasn't ... weak, grey, milky.