Bought booza in Punchbowl today. By total coincidence, same family that ran the shop below my grandmother's window in Lebanon. This post became a piece on why London is losing its Brick Lanes because it's well-designed, and Sydney's strips survive because it isn't.
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Why London keeps losing its independent neighbourhood restaurants, and what a basket lowered from a Lebanese window taught me about what is happening.