Bengal Cuisine Launderette
July 10, 2011
Bengal Cuisine is a restaurant which was formerly a launderette on Brick Lane. The photograph below taken near the restaurant shows how different the Lane is now compared to when it was a thriving launderette.
Man with mobile phone outside Bengal Cuisine on Brick Lane, 2010
The entrance to Brick Lane Launderette, 1983
Brick Lane Launderette, 1983
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Omg! This was my dads launderette
Hi Shamima,
Not sure if you’ll ever see this message, but this is now my dads restaurant, he bought the laundrette around 1994 and we lived upstairs for about 5 years until we bought a house close by. It is still running now and was very successful, it has undergone two full refurbishments since but I much preferred the first one which looked very wooden and ethnic, nothing like it looks now. It is now unfortunately a dying ‘Indian’ [actually Bengali] restaurant like many of the others on Brick Lane that are struggling with the new wave of the East End. I wanted do a blog post on the place and would love it if you could send me an email : tanha.quadi@gmail.com.