The end of 'Cash'

On Sunday we met some old friends after meeting at The Questors 'Grapevine' bar we took a walk to Charlotte's W5 - original I'd intended to go to Charlotte's Place (on Ealing Common) but this is closed following a fire so we expected something broadly similar at this other part of The Charlotte Group - I've had my eye on the restaurant/bar for some time.

So after looking at my pictures..

My 'Calendar' of Photo's in the Questors  Grapevine bar.

Well we had a few issues in Charlotte's Place -

Charlotte's W5 -They don't want your money 

1st Glasses cloudy
2nd Chairs difficult to get into
3rd Poached Egg overcooked..


and for me  the fact that Cash was not acceptable - I realise that we're in the 21st Century but I don't like the demise of cash it leads to state having (even more) powers.




I want to be able to reward individual service and  I fear too much knowledge is being accumulated about us all.

Dicken's Yard and Red 208

Dicken's Yard is getting a more and more dominant feature at the centre of Ealing - some of it at street level doesn't (to me) look too bad but my personal feeling is that a pause in development is needed for residents to come to terms with this new feature - I'm not sure if the development to the East of Arcadia will be going ahead at full pace (there are objections) but this will certainly change the character in the heart of Ealing so a break first makes sense.

How things were about 18 months ago

And the 'view' taken from the same point  yesterday

At street level the Charlotte's W5 offers Al Fresco eating for brighter days:

Tables outside 'Charlotte's W5 bistro'

A View towards the development from Town Hall

The view across to Perceval House

 

Should we believe them?

Who knows if it's true but it looks like the new Cinema quarter development might be started soon:

Red 208

A bit of a design classic with this chair spotted at Design Museum.

Alessi Piana chair designed by David Chipperfield