Mosfilo Restaurant, Hatch End, Pinner, Has Closed. A New Lebanese Restaurant Is Opening

Zufo Restaurant, Hatch End. Photo by Angela Lansbury. Copyright.

Problem
First, the bad news. Mosfilo Greek restaurant is closing, alas. Second, the good news.

Solution
A Lebanese restaurant is opening. At least Hatch End is not losing a restaurant.

However, Hatch End already has a Lebanese restaurant, Latakia, although the name Latakia, is from Syria, beloved of one of the owners.

The premises of the old Mosfilo are the other side of the road, and the dining area and number of seats, I imagine, would be much larger.

If you are looking for Lebanese, then you will have a choice of two in Hatch End. I was told that the new owners already have another successful enterprise in Northwood Hills. I looked at their website and phoned them up.

The Northwood Hills restaurant is near Northwood Hills railway station. Pay and display parking by day, free after 6.30. (I'm quoting their website. Please check the latest.)

The Northwood Hills branch is run by three brothers. One of them, Emil, told me, "The new restaurant will be the same, same quality, with a few new, extra dishes. We hope to see you soon."

They expect to open the Hatch End branch at the end of September. You can see people working busily inside as you pass.

The new restaurant will be
Zufa Lebanese Restaurant
The Broadway
308 Uxbridge Road
Hatch End
Pinner
Middlesex
HA5 4HR
England
UK.
Tel (Call their other restaurant until a new number is available.)
Near Hatch End Railway station.

The signs say:
Zufa
Opening soon

Zufa
Now hiring

If you can't wait, or want to compare the two restaurants, try:

Zufa Lebanese Restaurant
1-3 Joel Street, Northwood Hills
HA6 INU
tel: 01923 840192
www.zufarestaurant.co.uk
Open Monday to Sunday from around noon until around 11 but check because they have different opening times on different days of the week.

Author
Angela Lansbury, travel writer and photographer, author and speaker. See my next post on the menu in their Northwood Hills branch. Please share links to your favourite posts.

London's Suburban Architecture: See The Semis, the Thirties and more

London Suburbs

On many road, and diverting out of the Wembley traffic jams in the morning and evening rush hour, down the residential side roads, you can also see London's distinctive London red brick houses. Terraces are also built of brick.

Brick decoration

Those brick walls are built from bricks using London's clay. Sometimes the red bricks are dirtied to a grey or brown. Other times the grey or brown bricks are the original colour, deliberately, creatively mixed with orange or red or other colours to create checkerboard patterns. Occasionally the entire wall is a pattern on grand buildings. On small houses, more often on borders or friezes or across the tops of windows like eyebrows and over doorways like moustaches or noses.

Semi-detached 'semis' in mirror image

Pairs of homes are called semi-detached, pleasing mirror image twins. When first built, and in the old days they were always decorated in matching styles. Now everybody paints their front doors different colours, installs double glazed windows in assorted styles. It's a h o t c h p o t c h. (Predictive text tried to insert hitch pitch). But, when you are visiting a friend, easier to find the house with the turquoise door.

Victorian Mock Tudor

In addition to the brick semis and terraces, you will see the black beams on white (in Singapore called black and whites) which are mock-Tudor, with sharply angled triangular gables. 

Thirties Curves

My favourites are the Thirties buildings are even more distinctive and attractive with their soothing curves. Many have pretty but impractical flat rooftops, which leak and eventually sink under rain. The smarter and better kept Thirties buildings, (some in Hatch End) sometimes have delightful green tiles on sloping roofs which allow the rain to drain off. Both styles have white fascias and wide widows with horizontal top windows.

P a v e d Gardens and Parking Places

Looking for a place to pull in to let a screeching police car and ambulance pass, or for a convenient place to park, you understand why so many homes have paved in their front gardens. The advantage to visitors is that you can park on your friend's front drive, if they don't have a car for every adult resident and already overflow their own available parking. 

Read more about Wembley in a later post.

Angela Lansbury, travel writer and photographer, researcher, author and speaker.