BACK in the day, a trip along West End’s Hardgrave Road offered up a variety of old-fashioned blocks of flats, houses with grapevines and veg-laden front yards and a sprinkling of second-hand bookstores and thrift shops. The landmark of the road was the Rialto Theatre, a lovely old corner structure built in the 1920’s.
A couple of traditional Vietnamese restaurants came along in the ‘60’s offering rudimentary dining rooms and menus as long as your arm were also popular. These venues dabbled in
