This Is A Restaurant
I know Cool Week is so last week, but I saw something yesterday that blew me away.
I was out walking at lunch when I noticed a restaurant called The Willard Road Restaurant. It was of course in Willard Road. It looked pretty nice too, which is all the more reason for the cool name. Normally nice restaurants in London have stupid names like Poormans, Fly Flew Flown, Chez Tariq, Dulcimer, The Larch, K2, Completement Nul or something lame.
That’s not even the best part. I looked under the name and you know what it said?
Guess what it fucking said.
It said:
“The Willard Road Restaurant
Chinese cuisine”
Way.
They could have gone for anything. Lee Chang’s, The Sunrise, Happy Valley, Jade fucking Dragon - anything.
But not them. When they were picking names they probably didn’t even realise how cool they were.
“You know? Fuck it - Shen, what street are we in? What’s that sign say over there?”
“Willard Road”
“That’ll do.”
“I’ll call the sign company.”
“Tell you what, pry that one off the wall and we’ll use that.”
What’s the Mandarin for rock star?
*It wasn’t really called this. It was called the something else road resaturant, but I’m not about to announce to the entire weberati where I can be found at lunchtime. No offence, like, it’s just you can’t be too careful. You’re OK, though.