I had heard of Wembley Stadium of course for years... i guess the major football and sporting and concert venue in London.

What finally brought me out on the tube was to see the spanking new Wembley Stadium, still not quite finished i believe.

Anyway i found the whole complex - new stadium, some indoor arena, exhibition halls, etc. to be quite nice and well done.
I got off the tube at a sparkling new tube stadium called Wembley Park and then walked thru the heart of the stadium area to the Wembley train station right at the foot of the new stadium and IBIS hotel, which seems to be attached to the stadium. This station, with sporadic trains to London Marylebone train station (Chilterns Railway trains), is also being completely redone into a glass-and-metal futuristic look.)

(Friends stay in this IBIS as a cheaper alternative to similar hotels in London, one reason i had my interest picqued by Wembley.)
I very much enjoyed my few hours here. First stop was a classic greasy English cafe just opposite the Wembley Park tube stop - had a great noon meal of beans on toast with scrambled egg - oh just love those meals, one of the bargains of London, costing about as much as just a coffee would at Starbucks.
Then i headed to the Wembley Central tube station, about a half-mile from the new stadium, to enter another world - a world of flowing saris, chipattis, turbans, Bangli restaurants and shops redolent of Southeast Asia.
This must be one of the largest Indian, Pakistani and Bangli areas in London and a nice one. The area around the Alperton tube station seemed very un-European. At Alperton i hopped the tube to return to central London.
My only regret was that i missed the exquisite new mosque (or temple?) at Neasden, also near the new stadium. Well something to go back for!)
All in all a very surprisingly and delightful excursion.

I think you're thinking of the huge Hindu temple at Neasden. I keep meaning to go, but forgetting..

http://www.mandir.org/

You went to Wembley and didn't eat Gujrati? Or visit the temple?

And only noticed "Bangli" (do you mean Bangladeshi?) restaurants?

Like going to Rome and avoiding the Forum. Patrick has an excuse: he's so busy trying to get out of IKEA he's got no time left for London's most extraordinary building of the past 15 years. Visitors have no such excuse.

Don't mention IKEA. Now I realise that's why the very mention of Neasden gets me into a cold sweat.

<Patrick has an excuse: he's so busy trying to get out of IKEA he's got no time left for London's most extraordinary building of the past 15 years.>

"most extraordinary (new) building of the past 15 years"

wow - such an accolade from such an unimpeachable source - first thing next time in London, it's the tube to Neasden (to hit the IKEA store of course).
I would have visited the temple last month except a hard rain started coming down and i fled to the nearest tube station for refuge and it was getting late so i headed back to London.
I now very much regret not making the temple number one on my Wembley visit! thanks flanner for letting me know how extraodinaire the temple must be.