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    <title>London &amp;#8211; the world-class city where you can&amp;#8217;t get a takeaway on a Saturday night</title>
    <published>2013-03-23T22:29:16Z</published>
    <updated>2013-03-25T12:28:47Z</updated>
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    <content type="html">&lt;p&gt;&lt;img alt="Disney characters starving" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-GYo0biSpFyc/UJlAmxzwLSI/AAAAAAAAA9Y/Z21MqWGCvlc/s1600/Fun+and+Fancy+Free+Mickey+Mouse+Donald+Duck+and+Goofy+starving.jpg" width="300" align="right" hspace="3/" /&gt;One of the many many reasons for living in London is that it&amp;#8217;s meant to be a world-class city, the place people flock to.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Well, I hope they don&amp;#8217;t want a simple takeaway delivered on a Saturday night because it seems nigh on impossible.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Our first choice was &lt;a href="http://www.sufirestaurant.com/"&gt;Sufi&lt;/a&gt; &amp;#8211; a Persian restaurant round the corner rated by Jessie J and Time Out, amongst others. We&amp;#8217;ve ordered from there before without any problems, but of course that was on a weeknight. We called them tonight, to be told they don&amp;#8217;t deliver on a Saturday night.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Next stop, another Persian restaurant called &lt;a href="http://www.pianorestaurant.co.uk/"&gt;The Piano&lt;/a&gt; in Chiswick. We ordered it via Hungry House seemingly without a problem &amp;#8211; thirty minutes later, with our hunger pangs getting ever more desperate, we get an email only to be told they rejected our order without any explanation as to why. I really should have checked the website earlier &amp;#8211; they manage to spell Persian wrong on their &lt;a href="http://www.pianorestaurant.co.uk/"&gt;homepage&lt;/a&gt;. Seriously.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Ditching the notion of such exotic cuisine as Persian altogether, we thought we&amp;#8217;d retreat to the safety of Chinese food. So tried to call the &lt;a href="http://ukplaces.com/take-away-restaurants/shepherds-bush/drunken-tiger"&gt;Drunken Tiger restaurant&lt;/a&gt; (great name, amiright?) in Shepherds&amp;#8217; Bush. After five minutes of them not answering their phone, we gave up.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;We finally resorted to the tried and tested &lt;a href="http://www.sevenstarschinese.com"&gt;Seven Stars takeaway&lt;/a&gt; round the corner &amp;#8211; really, we should have stuck with them from the start, because they took our order without any problem and it&amp;#8217;ll arrive in thirty minutes. Fingers crossed.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;And now we&amp;#8217;re starving and ready for bed at the same time. Not a great combo!&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p style="text-align: right"&gt;&lt;small&gt;Mirrored from &lt;a href="http://www.almostwitty.com/16101/me/london-the-world-class-city-where-you-cant-get-a-takeaway-on-a-saturday-night" title="Read Original Post"&gt;almost witty&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/small&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;img src="https://www.dreamwidth.org/tools/commentcount?user=almostwitty&amp;ditemid=589128" width="30" height="12" alt="comment count unavailable" style="vertical-align: middle;"/&gt; comments</content>
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