| Retail Tip Sheet: Barkley eatery set to open
Once Laila Yusufali decided she wanted to run a business, it didn't take long to get nearly ready to open. This past summer Yusufali found what she felt was an ideal spot. Now she's a few weeks away from opening Black Pearl, a restaurant that will offer a variety of food, including some Vietnamese dishes. She plans to have the restaurant open at the Barkley Crossroads shopping center (near Lowe's) in early- to mid- October. Yusufali's specialties will be bubble tea, crepes and pho (Vietnamese soup), but she'll have other items on hand, including pot stickers, sushi, egg rolls and gourmet Asian salads. "I've been very busy but also excited about this," said Yusufali, who will be working with her sister, Sara, at the business. "I'm happy about how things are going to this point." The 850-square-foot space will be open for lunch and dinner and will have a video game lounge.
Chart round-up: not much brewing
This morning I skipped breakfast because I couldn't be arsed, then I stole two currant shortcake biscuits from the office cupboard and had them with a nice cup of tea while I checked Myspace, where an empty inbox greeted me like a slap in the face. If I could take my tea from a vessel of my choosing it would undoubtedly be the one pictured right, offering as it does the advantage of ample snack storage facilities, but you can't always get what you want. What did you have for breakfast this morning? Which brings us nicely to this week's chart rundown, where there's a twinkle in Sean Kingston's eye as he spends a fifth week atop the single charts, the stirrings of a title assault on Rihanna's ten-week crown perhaps in evidence. Babyshambles ghost in at six with 'Delivery', and without wishing to give the game away, if I were to describe forthcoming album Shotter's Nation using an adjective, as is the fashion nowadays, I could prefix said adjective with the word ‘very' and end up with an apt summary of its overall quality.
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