This French bistro is the newest entry on the lively 70th Road restaurant row, a five-minute walk from Station Square.
It is in this sense that Marcus Boon, in his theory-afflicted but nonetheless lively study "The Road of Excess" (Harvard; $29.95), says that Thomas De Quincey, with the 1821 publication of "Confessions of an English Opium Eater," "invented the concept of recreational drug use".
You can also be part of the most lively & social road trip ever.
You could do worse than come upon this lively Musu on the road less traveled.
It was 2 for 1 cocktails so had two before meeting my housemates in another pub down the road – very lively night.
To rub shoulders with a more lively crowd for artisanal cocktails, it's a short ride into Wan Chai to the Pawn (62 Johnston Road, Wan Chai; 852-2866-3444; thepawn.hkm.hk).hk
We amble, unmolested, down Maadi's main thoroughfare, Road 9. Lively enough and with a scattering of coffee shops, bakeries, bookshops and open-fronted workshops, it's positively comatose compared with the chaos of downtown Cairo.
The George & Dragon on Hackney Road is a lively pub and cocktails are amazing at Lounge Bohemia on Great Eastern Street.
Though the audio tour did offer some interesting history, we never found those re-enactors, making the whole thing rather boring, especially with lively Charleston just down the road.
"Roman Road was so lively," recalls Wiley, "because it had that street market culture, every Tuesday, Thursday and Saturday – it was the nurturer, it all has something to do with the Dizzees and Wileys coming through".
