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Your milquetoast point is well made, and it no doubt takes a degree of assertiveness to complain directly, but frankly, I just wouldn’t bother, expecting to be ignored or given the brush-off (and it's an undeserved courtesy anyway), but I meant it in the sense that it’s being unnecessarily indulgent towards the business owners, and encourages them all the more to see what they can get away with before the council steps in.
The onus is on the business to know what the regulations are and to follow them; we shouldn’t have to be “reminding” them. I think it is naïve to imagine that the business person isn’t aware of the problem they are causing. I qualify this from the experience of having worked in pubs and restaurants and observing how restaurant managers tend to act when they’re not in front of customers.
My parenthetical note in a previous comment was an attempt to make it clear that I was not comparing this problem to a serious crime, I was simply making an analogy or parallel about the mechanism.
@Harpistic , what attitude would you have expected the manager of the White Lion to exhibit? It’s all very well being contrite after the fact, but do you think he was unaware of the potential of the noise to be a nuisance to local residents? Perhaps he’ll now think twice before testing the waters.
Anyway, we’re all free to do as we please on this issue, and how one feels about it seems to depend on one’s outlook (yes, I admit, I don’t have much trust in business people unless there’s a light shining on them) and I think I’ve written more than enough on this now.
After all, "…it is ALWAYS your decision to turn to crime. Society does not fail you in that way, as there is always an alternative route. Individuals must take responsibility for their actions, blame is an easy option." - Brodiej
(Sorry, couldn't resist it!)
However, as outlined, the people who are moaning about encroachment of restaurants and cafes onto SGR pavements can be blamed for the associated number of people who turn to a life of crime. There is an obvious direct correlation, and people need to think very carefully about their actions.
Why bother phoning the council about the issue, simply ask a local youth to set fire to your car and save a few months because that's what will happen anyway. If it was a diesel car, you could get the insurance money back and buy a hybrid to save on the £96 surcharge the council make you pay too. If you' park next to some fly tipping, the flames from the car might burn away the eyesore that you might have phoned the council about as well. Win win for everyone.
Love will not win, Hate not Hope, we're all doomed i tell you.
At least JeffVanCurtainTwitcher will be happy about the pavements though.
(First I'm accused of trolling, then they start putting the troll bait out especially for me. What's a chap to do?)
1) Ask the restaurant nicely
2) Tell the council
3) Chuck the tables and chairs through the windows, set fire to a few cars, and hunker down for the Mad Maxian post-apocalyptic version of Stroud Green, where despite the crazed lawlessness taking over the streets, the fiercest debate will continue to be about the best pizza, jumpers worn over shirts, where Stroud Green actually is, and why the council's new £4,000 dystopian parking permit surcharge is a bit steep.
Thanks for the update, @gardener-joe
Sounds quite helpful to me
You may find in the end it is Thames Water
It's a throwaway comment based on this seeming to be the regular response on anything to do with the Stroud Green Road area from either council.
Haringey didn't seem to say, 'we are going to make sure they fix it for our council tax payers who live on that side of the road'.
It was more a we've reported it, it's not our problem, it's Islington's.
It may be unfair, but years of a lack of joined up thinking and a lack of investment in Stroud Green road from the pair of them has left me wearily cynical.
Pappagone has the better, bustling, chaotic, pizzeria atmosphere, so I see why people prefer it - and their non-pizza food is a bit better.
Good options for pizza quality, atmosphere, and good non-pizza food are Piccolo Diavola and La Saporita.
I'm not sure about the decor in La Porchetta but never had a bad meal there unlike the terrible one in Muswell Hill.
I genuinely think they go for the Italian style of service in Pappagone, basically ignoring you until you choke on a breadstick.