The local art adorning the sidewalks of Bricklane, which is apart of the Bengali district in East London. On Sunday Jesse and I went to an outdoor market and went through tons of local vendors. There was also a lot of food stands that had everything from Spanish to Indian to Japanese. We both had fun walking around and feeling like locals...!
This was an old bus that was made into a food stand! It was called the RootMaster and there were all fresh organic soups with an upstairs on top of the bus that you could either dine out of or order from the wine bar.
Later in the night, Jesse and a friend of ours bought tickets for dinner and a show at a theatre in Soho. This was a pub we stopped off at to kill some time before we ate. I thought it looked like one of the conventional pubs you would expect to see in England.
Dinner was at a restaurant called Tiger Tiger Bar but it was just mediocre. The play made up for the ok dinner and was at this great little theatre. We saw 'The 39 Steps,' which is a comedy/mystery that is supposedly based on an Alfred Hitchcock film but I'm not exactly sure which one. The whole play was performed by only four actors and they did a wonderful job; even Jesse was glad that we dragged him along!
A lot of the streets around Soho look like Times Square in NY with the exception of the many historical monuments and classic architecture in certain spots.
This was the front of the theatre we went to; it was only one of about 15 different playhouses in the West End.
China Town was right around the corner from where we were and so we walked over and discovered that on the weekends you can get Chinese food at 1:30 in the morning at a great restaurant...Unfortunately, we had already eaten so we opted for a pub called O'neills. I was looking forward to hearing British music in the clubs but the DJ at O'Neills played Rihanna and Gwen Stefani all night...
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