Mall tourism/Cabana

[owlfish]

We made our first trip to Westfield City Stratford yesterday, aka what will be the Olympics gift shop, in effect. Restaurant magazine has been covering interesting new concepts there since it opened, and it was a chance to try out a new movie complex

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[hano]

'Westfield Stratford... aka what will be the Olympics gift shop.'

thank you, I've been trying to articulate that sentiment for years now. More power to you.

[owlfish]

Credit to me only for propagating someone else's sentiment! Although it's been enough weeks, I couldn't credit which specific person or article I've to thank for the phrasing.

[bohemiancoast]

I have been to the previous Stratford shopping centre on a number of occasions, and do not think that Westfield Stratford is sustainable post-Olympics. It feels even more white-elephanty than the rest of the Great Insanity, because no thought appears to have been given to what happens afterwards.

Reports are that current shop takings are very low, which is sort of what you'd expect.

We have eaten at The Real Greek, which we thought rather poor, and Wahaca, which we like a lot. When I went with Marianne, she asked for sushi, which allowed us to discover that Yo Sushi is cheap on Mondays.