There are lots of good things to say about Café Cecilia, but may I start with the shallowest? You can come off the motorway from way out in the flatlands, zigzag through the surface streets of east London, turn on to Andrews Road and park. Right outside. You can sit in a window seat, look out over the canal, the narrow boats, the vast Victorian gasworks — and your car. It is disorienting. I don’t think it impaired my critical faculties, but I was halfway through the main before I could stop myself gazing through the glass at my decomposing SUV and idiotically mouthing, “Look, my car!” I mean, this is “gritty E8”. I’ve only previously managed Restaurant Dream Parking in LA.
關于塞西莉亞咖啡館(Café Cecilia)，有很多好東西可以說，但我可以從最淺顯的說起嗎？你可以從平地的高速公路上下來，穿過倫敦東部的地面街道，轉到安德魯斯路并停車。就在外面。你可以坐在窗邊的座位上，眺望運河、狹窄的船只、巨大的維多利亞式煤氣廠——還有你的車。這讓人迷失方向。我不認為它損害了我的批判能力，但我在主食吃到一半時，才阻止自己透過玻璃凝視我那輛正在腐爛的SUV，并白癡般地念叨："看，我的車！" 我的意思是，這就是 "狡黠的E8"。我以前只在洛杉磯管理過餐廳夢想停車場。