London Kosher Restaurants and Cafes

July 13, 2008

Armando (Meat)

252 Golders Green Road
Golders Green
London NW11 9NN
Tel: 020 8455 8159

Bloom’s (Meat)
130 Golders Green Road

Golders Green
London NW11 8HB
Tel: 020 8455 1338
www.blooms-restaurant.co.uk

Bloom’s (Meat)

313 Hale Lane
Edgware
Middlesex HA8 7AX
Tel: 020 8958 2229
www.blooms-restaurant.co.uk

CakeArt Café (Dairy)

2 Sentinel Square
Hendon
London NW4 2EL
Tel: 020 8202 2327

Coby’s (Dairy)

115a Golders Green Road
Golders Green
London NW11 8HA
Tel: 020 3209 5049

Entrecote Bar (Meat)

102 Golders Green Road
Golders Green
London NW11 8HB

Francesca (Dairy)

155-159 Golders Green Road
Golders Green
London NW11 9BX
Tel: 020 8201 9005

Francesca (Dairy)

311 Hale Lane
Edgware
Middlesex HA8 7AX
Tel: 020 8905 0552

Hillel Restaurant
1-2 Endsleigh Street
London WC1
Tel: 020 7388 0801

Isola Bella Café (Dairy)

63 Brent Street
Hendon
London NW4 3EA
Tel: 020 8203 2000

Kaifeng (Glatt meat)

51 Church Road
Hendon
London NW4
Tel: 020 8203 7888
www.kaifeng.co.uk

Kavanna (Glatt meat)

60 Vivian Avenue
Hendon
London NW4 3XH
Tel: 020 8202 9449
www.kavanna.co.uk

La Dorado (Fish)

134 Brent Street
Hendon
London NW4
Tel: 020 8202 5592

La Fiesta (Glatt Mehadrin)

235 Golders Green Road
Golders Green
London NW11
Tel: 020 8458 0444

Levi Luca (Meat)

5 Shenley Road
Borehamwood
Hertfordshire WD6 3HZ
Tel: 020 8905 1118

Marcus’s (Meat)

5 Hallswelle Parade
Finchley Road
Golders Green
London NW11 0DL
Tel: 020 8458 4670
www.marcuss.co.uk

Novellino (Dairy)

103 Golders Green Road
Golders Green
London NW11
Tel: 020 8458 7273

Parkview Café (Dairy)

56 The Market Place
Kingsley Way
Hampstead Garden Suburb
London Nw11 6JP
Tel: 020 8458 1878

Ralphy’s NY Grill (Glatt meat)

32-34 Station Road
Edgware
Middlesex HA8 7AB
Tel: 020 8952 6036
www.ralphys.com

Sababa (Glatt Mehadrin)

226 Station Road
Edgware
Middlese HA8 8AU
Tel: 020 8958 5557

Solly’s (Meat)

148a Golders Green Road
Golders Green
London NW11
Tel: 020 8455 0004

Solly’s Exclusive (Meat)

146-150 Golders Green Road
Golders Green
London NW11
Tel: 020 8455 2121

Tasti Pizza (Dairy)

23 Amhurst Parade
Amhurst Park
London N16 5AA
Tel: 020 8802 0018

The White House (Glatt meat)

10 Bell Lane
Hendon, NW4 2AD
Tel: 020 8203 2427
www.whitehouserestaurant.co.uk

From http://www.kosher.org.uk/restaurants.htm


A Trip to Hungary

July 5, 2008

I went to a trip Romania-Hungary many years ago. That was difficult in Russia to get a permission to go abroad and buy this trip. I could receive this permission only from a special committee that considered the applications and decided who would be the happy participants. The committee met at the Institute, where I worked. At last the permission was given to me. Our group went by train to Romania and Hungary. After three days in Romania we came to Budapest. This city differed from Bucharest of that time. It was much more lively, we could see new big buildings of hotels, there were some private shops, at the same time big stores and supermarkets still belonged to the government. It was in 1985.
We went by bus around the city, it was beautiful with a big river (Danube) and embanquement. On the other day we went to a small town of Estergom and watched picturesque banks of the river. Once we met an American group, and one of the tourists from Michigan told me: “I am glad, that I didn’t meet here any negroes.” We also met a group from Italy, it mainly consisted of middle-aged pairs. As our group consisted mostly of young women, the Italian men expressed their delight of this meeting. The meeting was very warm, but the language barrier prevented from more close communication. We were leaving on the weekend. I dropped in a supermarket and wondered the familiar picture: a lot of women were hurrying to do shopping before the holiday. I decided that there were as many working women in Hungary, as in the Soviet Union.


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June 27, 2008

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Spain

June 23, 2008

I am trying to express general impression of Spain. Really, this country is different from other European countries. First of all, the population is rather homogeneous. You could meet not many Eastern immigrants. I saw once a young Arabian woman in Barcelona. She was nice, polite, smiling. In a country, where Eastern people are numerous, they feel much more sure of themselves, as, for example, in Munich. What else is characteristic of Spain, there are many religious catholic people. If you turn in into cathedral, even on a weekday, you can meet some quantity of people, neatly dressed, most of them middle-aged women. Though I was in Spain on warm days, very rarely I could meet girls in mini or in shorts, even in overcrowded main street of Barselona. I think, the rules of dressing are more strict here, than in other European countries.

In Madrid our guide told us, that with the acceptation of Euro everything became much more expensive, and a flat of 30 square meters cost 180,000 Euro, so a middle-class family couldn’t improve its conditions of living.


Tbilisi - Georgia

June 9, 2008

I went to a conference that took place in Tbilisi, Georgia, one fine automn day in the seventieth. It was November, and in Moscow it was quite winter. I took train Moscow - Tbilisy, we had to go by train for more, than 2 days. When  I entered my compartment in the railway car, I saw a fine married couple of about 40+. We got aquainted, the travel promised to be nice. The pair were inhabitants of Georgia, they were returning from Moscow. Their names were Vladimir and Maria. Very soon we were involved into an interesting exchange of opinions. I got to know that Vladimir had been a participant of the Second World War and even an invalid of the war. Maria was several years younger. They told me a lot of their life in Georgia, were the socialism of the USSR was in the stage of almost complete absence of the most necessary goods, especially clothes and footwear. I asked, how they got the things, and Maria explained. She worked in an office, where regularly a certain woman came with modern and popular things, the price of which was much higher than usual. In the afternoon Vladimir went to learn about the restaurant, and found out that there was no one in the train. Maria got angry as Vladimir had assured her that they had not to buy food for the journey, and now they had nothing to eat. Luckily, I had bought a whole kilo of pastry, which I did not need. So they would not die of hanger. Tea was served unlimited. It was a very touching moment when we reached Georgia. We could see fields and vineyards, Vladimir called the names of regions we passed. At last we left the train in Tbilisi. The weather was warm, about 20 degrees centigrade. My hotel “Iberia” was in the centre. In the evening there was a beautiful sight from the seventh storey, the town was full of lights. My neighbour and college, a middle-aged woman and I walked a lot about the streets. We visited aincient capital of Georgia Mtzheta with an old fortress. On the second day Maria called me and showed the most interesting places. The main street called after the famous poet Rustavely was always full of people. What was surprizing, there still remained Stalin museum, at that time all the memory of the tyrant and killer of millions was wiped out in Russia. After four days our conference was finished and we returned to cold Moscow.


Parks of Leningrad (Saint-Petersburg)

May 21, 2008

I call this city by its former name, the name of those times, when I lived there.
I want to speak of its wonderful parks. At the age of twenty I spent summer in Poushkin, named also Tsar village. It is not far from Leningrad, you can go there by train from Vitebsk railway station. There are two spacious parks there: Katherine Park named after empress Katherine the second, and Alexander Park. Katherine Park is more decorated, full of statues, pavilions and grottos. Katherine Palace in baroque style reminds of Winter Palace in St-Petersburg.

It is a museum full of wonderful furniture, china, exquisite clocks and other objects of luxury.
Everywhere in Katherine Park you can see engraved lines from verses by Poushkin, the famous Russian poet, who studied in Lyceum here and wrote a lot of verses dedicated to this place.
Alexander Park is not so sunny and smart. It was rather gloomy in those days and more in romantic style. There are many ponds there, and green trees look into waters. Much later I visited this park and found it again beautiful and lively. We could hear an orchestra, playing wonderful music in the open and birds sang at the same time, supporting the musicians.

Another wondeful park is Pavlovsk park, it is the biggest of all. Its long straight lanes are very regular and impressive. There was a music pavilion there, This park wasn’t so decorated, as parks of Poushkin, being more natural. You can reach Pavlovsk also by train from Vitebsk railway station.

From Baltic railway station you can go to famous Petergoff. It is famous with its unique fountains, there are scores of them.

The biggest is Samson, a very prominent and high. There are lots of small fountains, some of them with tricks. There is also a palace there.

In Leningrad itself there are fine parks: Michailovsky, Victory Park and many others. A very fine and spacious park is in Elagin island.
It was always a place of culture with many attractions. It is on the shore of Baltic sea, there is a beach there. In my young days there was sometimes a balley on the water and many other shows. The most interesting celebrations were at the beginning and at the end of “White Nights”, usually in May and June.

In Leningrad there is a very famous Summer Garden (Letny Sad). It is near the Neva river. There are a lot of statues of Greek Gods and nymphs. In the centre of the garden there is a monument to Ivan Krylov, a famous Russian fabulist. The garden is surrounded by a long water pool named “Swan ditch”.


A Trip to Romania

May 12, 2008

I went to Romania in 1985, when there still Chaushesku was the dictator of the country. I saw the country in the period of stagnation. Nothing then changed, “perestroyka” was only beginning in the USSR. My first impression of Bucharest, and in fact shock, was on the first day of our arrival, on Sunday in the middle of September. Our group then just came by train from Russia. In the morning a group of tourists went by foot to a supermarket without our guide. I had a small bag in my hand, where half of my permitted sum of Romanian leus (then a Soviet citizen could have only a limited sum) was in a purse. It was my first trip abroad, and as it is known, only “nomenclature” could go abroad and with a special permition in the Soviet Union. Nobody had told me about the danger of robbery and pickpockets. In an instance I was robbed by a thief and I did not notice it. My companions saw a little boy of about five who opened my bag and took the purse very skillfully. I tried not to be disappointed. In the supermarket my college was almost robbed by a cashier, who did not want to give her change, a rather big sum. But she and I were persistent, and at last the woman gave in. Not everything was so bad.

On the next day we were taken to the country and visited a kind of museum: a typical peasant house  with a lot of objects made by craftsmen.. We went by bus about the country and watched wonderful views and nice small towns. We could even buy clothes, in the USSR that was a problem. We were in Romania only three days, our next country was Hungary.


ITALY - part 2

May 7, 2008

As we travelled from the South to the North, we were staying in very good hotels with good and diversified breakfasts. A very new and modern hotel “Ibis” near Rome was a little sophisticated with a system of turning on and off the light that had to be learned and a modern system of locking the door with a card. In this hotel there happened a strange mess in the morning when our guide hurried us up, while we had to find and wash cups and plates for our breakfast, there were no waiters at all. They said it was a kind of strike.

A wonderful hotel “Grand Plaza” near Florence was a restored ancient building with high wooden windows and doors. It combined ancient grandeur with all the modern comfort and services.
The architecture of Venice was unique and beautiful in its own style. Venice was the last place of our tour, and we were to depart from Verona.


ITALY - part 1

April 27, 2008

Italy was the country we had dreamed to visit long before in the Soviet Union, where there was iron curtain and it was impossible to go abroad. At last our group of relatives managed to make this tour in six days with a very good guide. Our guide Boris M. did his best to show us the country in such a short period. Italy made an impression of a country without strict rules: it was strange to see cars and buses on tram rails, then trams themselves on the same rails. People are lively and open. There are difficulties with languages, often we could not communicate, but still somebody knowing English could be found. We were told that in Naples mafia controlled restaurants, and in fact on our first morning in that town in a café I saw a man walking about and watching attentively.

 

The tourist objects were in good order. In the forum of ancient Rome there were  lots of tourists, and at some moment a woman from our group was lost. She immediately came to a policeman and very soon joined our group again. After a day in Rome we were taken to Tivoly, villa D’Este with 100 fountains of very special construction. In the evening we had a dinner in a restaurant, where we listened to very good singers, one of them a young girl, a singer of Rome Opera.


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April 17, 2008

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