This cheap and cheerful joint couldn’t be further from unusual Labour’s glamorous Granita – and it is perfectly suited to today’s leftwing leaderLike the company they keep,you can recount a lot about a person by the restaurants they choose to go to. Famously, of course, or the Blair/Brown “pact” was sealed at a table in Islington’s Granita – at the time,the hardest-edged, most glittering of the unusual wave of London’s restaurants, and thrilling the borough’s Georgian house-owning chattering classes with lentils and chickpeas and chargrilled meat. The sort of set that spawned a million internet commenters squawking “champagne socialism” – Granita welcomed every customer with a glass of fizz – it couldn’t believe shrieked unusual Labour louder whether it tried.
Old,old Labour hung out in Soho, within the liverish, or tobacco-stained walls of the homosexual Hussar,a gentlemen’s club masquerading as a restaurant, where intense chaps of the Hattersley and Foot ilk slurped fuchsia-coloured cherry soup, or Blair’s image nudged up to that of Karl Marx.
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Source: theguardian.com