CHOPSTICK chinese restaurant - what happened???

[chica1]

I always wanted/curious to know why this lovely & only decent chinese restaurant in the area closed down. It's our second fav restaurant whenever we couldn't be bothered to go to Chinatown.

Any idea why it closed down?

[Jeremy]

To be honest it wasn't very popular, it would often look pretty empty as far as I could tell.

Personally I wasn't very impressed with the food when I tried it. Although the garden was nice on a sunny evening.

[*Bob*]

Nice garden shame about the food. It was really quite poor.

[chica1]

Ah I suppose our experience was rather different as we became quite firendly with the owner & her daughter. So that everytime we order either takeaway or eat in & always asked for specific way of cooking , say fish or any other dish, they're quite compliant.

I asked the veg shop next door the other day & he said that she probably just retired.

[Nero]

The chopsticks logo was in a commonly used Japanese font, not a Chinese one. Therefore it deserved to fail.*

(*This is a joke.)

[kford]

Good garden, OK food. Probably too few covers indoors to get it through the colder months, unlike Mr Lu's joint.

[buggie]

Always found it strange that that despite the name they'd give you a knife and fork :-S

[scott]

does anyone know who owns it ?

[Rolo Tomasi]

This may help Scott - Chopsticks

[Loz]

You can't have frequented it too often - it's been gone for a few months now.

[nbn]

Scott its owned by the same people who live upstairs. They've just created a lease so you could open another 'bah' !

[Jeremy]

You could call it "The Merideth".

Hang some eccentric lampshades and mirrors in there. Del-boy wallpaper on one wall. Art donated by Camberwell students. Perhaps some continental lager on tap, such as Budvar or Perroni.

Maybe do some "more fancy than average pub" food such as "tuna steak with wasabi veloute" or "poussin avec beurre noisette".

It will go down a treat.

[JetSetWilly]

thats a pity, every time i past, i couldn,t but help get out my iphone and open the piano application for a little tinkle.

[Loz]

Maybe do some "more fancy than average pub" food such as "tuna steak with wasabi veloute" or "poussin avec beurre noisette".

It will go down a treat.

Good God, no. The foodie bloggers will be twittering in no time...

[Sue]

*Bob* Wrote:

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> Nice garden shame about the food. It was really

> quite poor.

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Yeh, can't remember ever having a decent meal there, kept thinking it would be better this time but it never was.

[scott]

Please enlighten the readers what you do for a leaving Jeremy, then perhaps we can swallow a bitter pill and criticise your achievements....

[Jeremy]

Just kidding Scott! I quite like your pubs, I think you have a decent formula going.

(I am a software developer... not very interesting, but there you go).