Stroud Green Road
Stroud Green Road has an array of shops stretching the length of the road, including a Tesco Metro supermarket. Most of the shops, however, are independent, with Time Out describing the range of shops as "impressive" and giving a sense of "how international the district is". The wide selection of restaurants on Stroud Green Road range from the standard Indian and Chinese to the more exotic Mauritian and Caribbean. The street is home to the original branch of Italian-owned North London pizza restaurant chain La Porchetta, as well as several bars and pubs. One unusual feature is perhaps the large cluster of wig shops at the Finsbury Park end of the road, where there is also a bowling alley and a cycle park, opposite the station.
Stroud Green Road can become busy when after matches at Arsenal FC's Emirates Stadium or music concerts in Finsbury Park, both nearby. The Finsbury Park end of the road, like the rest of the surroundings of the station, is markedly more run-down, blighted environmentally by parallel low railway bridges bringing the mass of overground lines into Finsbury Park station and by an ill-matched assortment of low-rise commercial buildings.
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