Persian in Kensington
Earlier this week I went for dinner to Mohsen, a great little Persian eatery in Kensington.
As I said before, London offers a great variety of cuisines to choose from and Moshen is superb. It’s small, informal and exceptionally relaxed. The best thing about Moshen is the hostess, Roekni, who’s an absolute scream. If you’re not careful, she’ll quickly decide for you what you’re going to eat and she just keeps on bringing the food!
We were a party of 5 and she decided the best thing for us would be a meat platter and since one of the girls wanted some lentil soup she got us that as well, and tons of rice. The starters she got us were filling enough already and was made up of a great selection of dips and other interesting things you could have with the freshly made Naan bread they bake right there in an authentic bread oven - the type where they slap the dough onto the inside of the oven wall.
Items on the menu ranged from
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I give it 2 mins max.
Fuck, shit, wank, bollox, pal-arse
Andy
Do you have nothing better to do than belittle the efforts of some to share a bit of their London experiences on this site?
You obviously noted I deleted your other comments. I was tempted to reply to them since your comments about “if you’re a West London something or the other with more money than style” was an indication that you can’t read…as I said it cost us just over a tenner each, but I thought it’s not worth it. I’ll spare the other readers the rest of your deleted comments.
People like you who have nothing better to do than post useless, rude and abusive comments on public sites is what makes metroblogging in London different from all the other cities, where comments vary from either being in agreement or having a different view - easily accepted - but they are never as cowardly as posting the kind you and a few others tend to post on this site.
Please go get a life.
And yes, most people will tell me that by deleting your comments or in fact replying to them is just what you’re after - a reaction - but quite frankly I could not care less and really wanted you to know I think your comments suck.
Thanks Riaan
I always enjoy reading your posts; it’s good to hear of a restaurant that’s prepared to go the extra mile to help make your eating experience extra special. That’s what earns a good tip in my book!
Best way to deal with unwanted comments is to delete them unceremoniously ;-)
OK, so you want to enter into rational discussion mode. Fine.
You need to ask why this site has created so much ridicule. It comes from the source of course. For a supposedly
Andy (Patridge)
Admittingly I made factual mistakes in my post about Fulham FC. I did make it quite clear that I have little knowledge about football and my comments were based on my own observations. Still, the factual mistakes could have been fixed by doing a bit more research, agreed - but then again, this is NOT a news site.
So fine, there were mistakes in the Fulham FC post. Sorry about that. (And the same goes to Toby, who posted a few comments on that as well. Why bother I wondered myself with comments like those.)
WRT the pics - Absolutely there’s agreement amongst the authors that the pics postings did not work. So I stopped doing that..
My posting about Moshen is all BUT a restaurant review. It tells about how much I enjoy the variety of food one can eat in London. And fair enough, if
Riaan - the rest of this website is an utter disaster, and it’s only really your stuff which is geniunely readable. The rest of it is a joke, and it drags you down. For a site to attract one anonymous hate-commenter is misfortune, to attract three or four is probably deliberate. Your stuff on your own site’s not bad - whyt don’t you expand that, get it listed on London Bloggers and ditch this rubbish?
Can I offer some unsolicited advice?
1) Don’t pretend to be a Londoner when you aren’t. You clearly don’t know lots and lots of things about this place - no shame in that. You’re a South African, based in west London. That’s your angle, not being “a Londoner”.
2) Stick to what you know - that Fulham post was wretched. It winds people up. Us Londoners are proud of our city, and hate people who can’t be arsed to get things right - whether it be the facts about a football club which is on your doorstep, or a or standing on the left on a tube escalator. That Fulham post was wretched stuff - why don’t you go to a game instead and write about that? And say hello to Claus for me.
3) Restaurant reviews are very dull indeed. Interesting ladies from Tehran are not. How about something on the interesting lady from Tehran instead?
4) The bloke in Los Angeles who runs these sites keeps trying to push them as cutting-edge city guides, blah blah blah. Of course, this site is a shambles. No wonder people are going to come here and take the piss out of it. Don’t rise to the bait, learn from it and move on. You’re probably too good for this crappy site.
“The bloke in Los Angeles who runs these sites keeps trying to push them as cutting-edge city guides, blah blah blah”
George-
No I’m not. I’ve never once said they are “cutting edge city guides” and in fact I’ve said many times they are NOT city guides. They are simply a collection of writings about a city by people who live in that city. That’s all. There’s no pretense that all the writers have lived in a city their whole lives or that they all have the same opinion on anything. Those are all assumptions other people have jumped to.
So you don’t like them, don’t read them. There’s millions of people in London, hundreds of them have blogs and for you or anyone one else to assume this site is a failure because a handful of those bloggers like to talk shit about it (and send us tons of traffic) is immensely short sighted. This site isn’t going anywhere, and we’re going to keep adding people to write for it. If you think it can be better, you are welcome to apply to join up. Otherwise you are not much more than a backseat driver and no one is going to give you any more credit than that.
George
Thanks for the advice. I don’t agree with all you said but I’ll keep at it.
Cheers
Riaan
Sean, so all criticism is “shit”, then? No wonder why this place stumbles from crap post to crap post if you can’t take anything on board. None of us can be 100% right, but if you can’t even publicly admit to things being very badly wrong here, then I’d definitely advise Riaan to jump off this sinking ship.
No, Adam’s comment above is criticism. Calling people names, jumping to conclusions, making idiotic assumptions, and putting words into other people’s mouths are talking shit. I didn’t say things were perfect here, I said the site isn’t a failure, nor is it going away. Again, if you don’t like it, don’t read it, and if you think you can do better, step up and prove it. However, I’m guessing you are a coward who would rather just toss in complaints from the sidelines, but I’d love for you to prove me wrong.
Who’s Adam?
Who’s name-calling? You’ve just started on the “coward” angle, and were the one who chucked someone off your site calling them something “fucker”.
But we’re thousands of miles away from you, so it doesn’t matter, does it?
Sending you ‘tons of traffic’…
Porn sites receive tons of traffic but that’s not really anything to be proud of. The reason why this shambles is receiving the attention is because of the car crash nature. It’s like watching a REALLY bad TV programme, or a comedian die on his arse. The experience is painful but somehow pleasurable.
Agree totally about Riaan’s angle; write what you know about. This may be about the experience of a SA in London. If that’s the case, then I would suggest that your talent is better suited elsewhere.
This site has yet to find an identity, comedy angle aside. You will gain much more respect Riaan if you manage to forge your own path.
Once again take a chance to have a look at some of the the other London bloggers. The good ones have their own unique angle. I may not agree with a lot of what they say, but I can form an overall picture about where they are coming from.
Reading your posts buried away amongst some sixth form poetry and your perspective is lost on me, which is a shame because I believe you genuinely have something interesting to say.
Blogs represent the individual, not the collective. Which is why this project is doomed for failure.
“Which is why this project is doomed for failure.”
I love it! That’s why we have more applicants coming in than we ever have and more cities being added. London has hiccups yes. So fucking what? Show me any group site that gets off the ground smoothly. We’re 100% behind our friends in London and nothing any of the nay-sayers like yourself has to spew will get in the way. Period.
“Blogs represent the individual, not the collective.”
Who says you can’t have a collective of individuals?
You may have more applicants coming in but you clearly don’t have many posts. Still, it leaves the car crash element all the more morbid as you have more time to take in some of the howlers here.
‘Our friends in London…’
Oh, silly me, you mean this LONDON blog isn’t London based?
The last time I saw a collective of ‘individuals’ was at a Levellers gig by the way. That didn’t work either.
“We’re 100% behind our friends in London and nothing any of the nay-sayers like yourself has to spew will get in the way. Period.”
Hey, why don’t you do a Bangalore blog? I hear the staff are cheaper there, and you’ll probably have as much idea of what goes on there as you do in London.
“We’re 100% behind our friends in London”
Like you were to the “fucker”?