A weird and wonderful trip down the Holloway Road

Holloway road has to be one of the strangest roads in London. My short 20 minute walk from one end of the road to the other reminded me how wonderfully diverse London is in culture and diversity. More importantly I got these beauties ;)

A modest name for an Indian restaurant 

I can only assume the radio DJ Chris Evans has expanded into real estate

A social club so secretive it doesn't even have a name 

Aptly named if your idea of paradise is Holloway Road

This is where all the runners up from the television show must come to ply their trade

ODDZ & SODZ: sadly closed :(

A tattoo parlour with a horror theme!. Funnily enough after I took the photo I thought I'd been rumbled by one of the owners or employees but as it turns out it was just a life size model of Count Dracula placed in the window.

The place to be if you want food and wine

A sport shop that happily boasts about using slave labour!

The first time I've seen a cafe named after a shipping disaster

I wonder what shop came first and who's benefitting off who?

Cashino!. The pictures in the window have people from all races and genders to show how much fun anyone can have gambling!

A taste of Hollywood right in London

As I've mentioned before anyone who has a first name as a second name I'm dying to meet.

A cab firm named after the popular folklore character. I wanted to go in and ask if the firm has a resident cat but decided against it for fear of being told to fuck off for wasting their time 

Rubbing shoulders with the other half in Islington

In between the coffee shops and the bistros and amongst some of the more better off in society I found these.....enjoy!

Who'd have thought all the thrills of Las Vegas could be found in North London

I don't just like the name of the shop but also the shop's concept. High streets are packed with shops such as Zebedee's that sell things that people don't need on a day to day basis yet they still manage to stay a float!. Kudos!

What I've discovered wandering around north London is that shops like to add 'Etc' at the end of their name for some reason, This shop has decided to go one better and drop any other words at the beginning of its name

Because of the shop's name, I walked away questioning what the shops policies where. Do they only dry clean clothes from America?, Do they only cater for American customers?, questions questions questions!

The centre of all Kebabs turns out to be on Upper Street in Islington....

Followed by the Empire of kebabs!, Its a good job hadn't been at a pub drinking all day and required a kebab because I'd be torn between the two of them!

Nothing like naming a bistro cafe after one of the biggest military blunders in British history

and again......

and again......

This shop implies that if there is ever a flood of biblical proportion, All that will be left is toys and board games, Which in my opinion isn't a bad thing at all

A restaurant possibly owned by a narcissist  

A clothes shop with an owner who has some sort of childish sense of humour about his own erections

You know you're in a posh area when the local Topps Tiles is a boutique!

I'd like to think if Marx,Lenin and Stalin came to present day London, This is where they'd meet and compile lists of enemies of the state to send to gulags. I can't tell you how nice the egg and chips are in this place but I will go there one day

'The Blue Legume' a delightful play on words

I peered through the window of this bar and was disappointed to not see a single wolf drinking in there  

I didn't realise the government deemed it necessary to establish a ministry of waxing but as it turns out they did and here is it's headquarters 

A bold statement

  

Pentonville Road

A short walk up Pentonville road produced these gems!

Foodilic by Peter Ilic the first shop I've come across with a rhyming name

Again a shop with the use of 'Etc' in the name. I can only speculate on what else this shop could sell over than mail boxes, That itself baffles me.

An acting school with a name like that has to be good!

I'm not too sure what a European Training Academy is and I forgot to note down what the website name was on the left hand side of the sign so I guess I'll never know...

This isn't a shop name, However its photographic proof that I haven't grown up yet

A walk around Euston....

A few from Euston I found after work....

'Great Nepalese Restaurant' 

Transformation: A shop that tells you nothing about what it sells or does

The building structure may not warrant the name but I can tell you they do a cracking egg and chips in this place. If you're ever in Euston and hungry for greasy spoon food, This is your man (or shop)

Hollywood has come to Euston. I don't know what videos or dvd's they do but the fact that you can't see inside suggests dvd's of a blue nature. I didn't have my raincoat,hat or tinted sun glasses on me so I wasn't going to take the risk of walking into what might be a sex shop.

I wish I could tell you more about the name of this shop but I don't speak Japanese. 

Another Video shop but with CD's. This was on the same street as the last video shop again with non-transparent windows.....I wonder what they've both got to hide? 

Chris doesn't need to play by the rules of grammar when running his fish and chip shop! :D

A pharmacy obviously named after the famous actor (or his poet laureate father...) 

If I knew how to work a sewing machine I'd buy a hygrade one from this shop and compare it to a bog standard sewing machine. I like that there is still a sewing machine shop operating and with enough patrons to keep it afloat   

Another shop that plays on people's curiosity. As you can see its closed so I can't tell you want the 'etc' bit of the business was

So when you hear someone say 'I'm just going to that nice laundrette', You'll now know which one they are talking about