282-Charing Cross Road, West Street, Young's Chinese Restaurant 1960's and 2012

            The black and white picture shows this building as it once looked when occupied by Young's Chinese Restaurant in the 1960's. However the picture cannot do justice to the colourful decoration of the front street elevation that made these premises the only thing worth seeing in this part of West Street. British History Online gives a good description, "The ground storey, with the doors and windows set in a plain grey face, is divided into three bays by vermilion columns supporting an elaborately decorated fascia and a canopy formed like a bracketed Chinese roof, finished with tiles and dragon ridge ornaments. Above this is a large oblong panel, covering the windows of two storeys, its surface modelled with blue, yellow and red dragons writhing against a ground of foam-crested waves below a cloudflecked sky, all highly formalized in the style of a lacquer screen. The Victorian brickwork of the two house fronts has been stained a lacquer red to form a ground for these ornamental features, which were made of fibre glass in Hong Kong to the designs of Gene Wong, and erected here in 1962."

The restaurant was created out of two separate houses, as the different window designs suggest. I just remember the outside, but didn't sample the dishes of the house - I wonder if anyone has memories?

 The building is still a restaurant, albeit one with a french name, L' Atelier, meaning, literally, "The Workshop". Remove the letter r, and you have a reminder of the past owners!

Taken on: April 1, 2012

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