i've been missing mexican food a lot lately (hard to find here) and my friends Pam and Andy knew of a great place in westbourne park called crazy homies. :-) westbourne park is on the other side of town, which should be readily accessible on the hammersmith and city (shitty) line. however, true to its name, the h&c wasn't running trains between king's cross and edgeware road. basically, right in the middle of where i would need to go.
after a lengthy time studying the transport for london options, i decided to get a bus from old street station to edgeware road and pick up the h&c there. should have been a 45-minute or so journey except:
- the first 205 bus i saw blew past the stop despite the fact that the stop is supposed to be a scheduled one (some stops have to be requested by a waiting passenger) AND someone actually did wave for the bus to stop. in fact, the bus came very close to hitting her as it zoomed by. bollocks. twelve minutes later...
- i got a bit lost between getting off the bus and finding the tube.
- the h&c train was just sitting at the station and took another 10 minutes to get going. i know i should be thankful that we even HAVE public transport, but sometimes it is really shit.
an hour later i finally got to westbourne park where i received a warm greeting from Pam. we collected Andy from the pub (they'd been waiting a bit) and set off to get our food.
crazy homies is in an obscure location (hidden near some council housing), is pretty tiny and doesn't take bookings, which is why we had to get there before 7. we got a table really quickly and ordered margaritas straight away. :-)
wow.
i hadn't had a margarita in ages but these were spectacular! we caught up over delicious tequila and chips, salsa, guac, adobo sauce, and something else green. our table was in the basement and the decor/atmosphere went like this:
- candles and Christmas lights - no overhead lighting.
- paper doily garland hanging on the walls.
- music in the background - everything from the swell season to simian to depeche mode. awesome!
- pictures of playing cards as the table top (under glass) - some of the cards had mexican wrestlers on them. i didn't know this before but mexican wrestling is called lucha libre and the guys wear full facial masks. suddenly nacho libre makes a lot more sense.
it was a fantastic setting to say the least and dinner was most certainly fantastic as well. for the main, i got a pork burro (wet) and it came with shredded pork, black beans, salsa, sour cream, and a little salad. heaven!
we got the bill and Pam and i had spent £45 on 'ritas alone, ha ha. we high-fived each other on a job well done and headed to a cocktail bar around the corner called the oak. margaritas weren't on the menu at the oak, so we switched to mojitos. :-) i was supposed to be heading back east for a night at the club, but we were having so much fun that i had trouble saying goodbye! i finally left around 11 and then i couldn't find the 205 bus stop. sigh. i was pretty wasted and wandering the streets looking for any bus at all, when i noticed i was in the same neighborhood as the serpies' leisure center. this meant i could pick up the central line, change at bank station, and get the northern line to old street. score!
it was midnight by the time i got to old street, and the start of saturday part three...
1 comment:
You know Aaron B and didn't know lucha libre?! Come on!
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