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The Larder opens at last

April 17^th 2011 by John Pipal

Some time ago on this site I bewailed the loss of the Wild Cherry Café in Globe Road, right around the corner from the Common Knowledge office. The Larder has finally opened in it’s place – a vegetarian café and deli which Zainab and I went to for lunch today. The place looks nice and […]

Wild Cherries – withered? or whither?

February 5^th 2010 by John Pipal

One of the first – if not THE first – vegetarian restaurants in Tower Hamlets, the Wild Cherry, has just closed after 30 years. People in Bethnal Green know the Buddhist businesses that cluster around the temple in the Roman Road and this closure is the second in as many months, the other being Friends […]