Fri 21 May 2021 05.00 EDT
While sipping a âSonic Mook Experimentâ in the freshly renovated Light Bar, I pondered how, over the years, many have wished a biblical plague to finish off Shoreditch. Well, no such luck. Itâs alive and well, and Iâve had a banana-flavoured old fashioned and some monkfish yakitori to prove it.
That said, I do understand why people feel so strongly about this area, which has been a magnet to the young and wilfully edgy for almost three decades now, because they can be exasperating and are very definitely laughable. In fact, the word âShoreditchâ itself has become a punchline of sorts, and the cause of much groaning and eye-rolling. Such things are hard to shake off.