Brixton chitter chatter and news and updates (Feb-Aug 2011)
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Orang Utan
Psychick Worrier Ov Geyoor
what/where is nour's?
Maybe 10-15 metres from the bottom of Electric Avenue between two halal butchers opposite 'Supermalt' general store. Really small entrance, but big inside.
Mrs Magpie
On a bit of break...
He's posted quite a lot about cupcakes. Positively. He likes them
Ms Ordinary
randompointlesschemistry
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Very simple. I'm different to the average demographic on here, in political viewpoint, lifestyle choices, religion, etc etc. To be honest, if I didn't live in Brixton then I'd probably never have found this place as most of the subject matter here is of little to no interest to me and I see little point or enjoyment in engaging with people purely for the point of argument over things like politics - you aren't going to change me any more than I'm going to change you - so I tend to restrict myself to simply posting on the local forum for local people about local matters unless it's something I can post that will be helpful in response to someone's question elsewhere in the forum.
Minnie_the_Minx
someinenhhanding menbag and me ah bollox
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hiraethified
What a hero! Much respect.
Can someone please ask Nour's if they really are going to shut shop. I've been buying my supplies from them since '98. My wife will be gutted, as she gets so many of her Algerian products from them.
I checked with my source who is quite certain Nour is closing in September. No word on whether they are moving to a different shop in Brixton though. I can't ask the Nour people direct because I don't know them and don't want to risk upsetting their staff. Is there someone here who knows the owner?
Ms T
Honey-coloured ramparts
As mentioned upthread, here's the new ice cream/milkshake place which the new barber/tattooist has opened. Sorry about the rubbish pic. Franco Manca is to the left, out of shot.
Ice cream is always good news, so if y'all want this parlour and the charming Spanish lass to stick around we're going to have to buy loads or persuade them to cut their prices which are ABSURD. One scoop of (admittedly delicious) chocolate and caramel ice cream was nearly £2. And the cone was £2 extra.So I had a free plastic pot instead.
My original intention was to have a milkshake made with said ice cream and was told they don't make milkshakes from ice cream because it's too expensive. (It would have been £8 for the 4 scoops required, plus an extra charge for the milk!) Their proposed ingredient for a chocolate milkshake is not ice cream but some mystery ingredient in a box which achieves Creme Egg flavour or KitKat flavour etc.
The above policies are all set by the barbershop people, not the Spanish lass, who is an innocent pawn in all this.
The cone is 20p extra not £2! I agree that the prices are a bit steep, but you get a very big serving for your money, and the ice cream is delicious. I had the vanilla, which was made with vanilla bean, not essence. Proper ice cream is not cheap to make, tbf.
Ms T
Honey-coloured ramparts
It's not £2!
Ms T
Honey-coloured ramparts
It was £2 when I asked.Perhaps the mgmt had misinformed the staff. If it's 20p I'll be back shortly.
I'm pretty sure I paid £2.20 for my vanilla cone just over a week ago. £2 would be ridiculous.
In other market news, there is going to be an Italian gelato stand in BV/Granville Arcade, and the former Pink Ladies hairdressing salon is going to be a Japanese restaurant. I will see what my sources have to say about Nour's.
miss minnie
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4 scoops to make a milkshake? That's not right either. One small-to-standard scoop is quite enough. I should know, I grew up in an aussie milk-bar.My original intention was to have a milkshake made with said ice cream and was told they don't make milkshakes from ice cream because it's too expensive. (It would have been £8 for the 4 scoops required, plus an extra charge for the milk!) Their proposed ingredient for a chocolate milkshake is not ice cream but some mystery ingredient in a box which achieves Creme Egg flavour or KitKat flavour etc.
The above policies are all set by the barbershop people, not the Spanish lass, who is an innocent pawn in all this.
miss minnie
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Can only imagine that the scoops must be very small and they perhaps mean thickshake rather than classic milkshake.
Googling for milkshake recipes confirms it, the classic aussie milkshake seems to exist no longer. Its all american style thickshakes and smoothies now.
Googling for milkshake recipes confirms it, the classic aussie milkshake seems to exist no longer. Its all american style thickshakes and smoothies now.
Orang Utan
Psychick Worrier Ov Geyoor
i need a haircut - maybe i'll get one tomorrow from the new barber - anyone know how much it is?
trabuquera
Modesty Bag
Please please please oh God of Brixton Retailers, please let Nour Cash & Carry survive. It's one of the best shops in the market by miles - the only place where i can buy palanquin Spiced Tea, amazingly good on stocking some latino/caribbean products as well as middle eastern stuff, and their fresh herbs are in better nick and in better bunches than anywhere else. I'll be GUTTED if they go - I don't shop in the market as often as I feel I should but Nour's was an absolute mainstay. crapsticks.
It might explain a funny scene I saw in there last week tho: the Mayor of Lambeth (South Indian bloke in all his mayoral bling) was in the shop and trying to make nice with the owners, introducing himself and attempting to sell them on the concept of the Brixton Pound. The staff weren't having a bar of it ... "we don't even take scottish pounds mate, you've no chance." it was just an amusing moment at the time - but now I see why they were being so frosty with him...
It might explain a funny scene I saw in there last week tho: the Mayor of Lambeth (South Indian bloke in all his mayoral bling) was in the shop and trying to make nice with the owners, introducing himself and attempting to sell them on the concept of the Brixton Pound. The staff weren't having a bar of it ... "we don't even take scottish pounds mate, you've no chance." it was just an amusing moment at the time - but now I see why they were being so frosty with him...
Biddlybee
making knots with sticks
Are you back in Brixton?
Orang Utan
Psychick Worrier Ov Geyoor
yes, this week anyway
Right, I've spoken to the bloke who knows. The £2 cone includes a scoop of ice cream.
Making a milkshake from the unbelievable chocolate and caramel ice cream only needs 2 scoops, and you get a very sizeable milkshake for £3.50. WOOT!!!! That would be a LOT of pleasure per pound.Nour update
Had a chat with Shaheen the owner. Yes, they're closing in Sept, with no plans to relocate. Seems that he and many other tenants have been ruthlessly shafted by the landlord. One of the stunts they pulled was a retrospective rent increase swiftly followed by a demand for £10,000 rent arrears! The tenants have no organisation and negotiate individually. Trying to get them to work together has proven difficult in the past because they don't have time to close up and come to a meeting and they're scared of the landlord. Sounds like meat and drink for a commercial estate agent and a commercial property lawyer.
Had a chat with Shaheen the owner. Yes, they're closing in Sept, with no plans to relocate. Seems that he and many other tenants have been ruthlessly shafted by the landlord. One of the stunts they pulled was a retrospective rent increase swiftly followed by a demand for £10,000 rent arrears! The tenants have no organisation and negotiate individually. Trying to get them to work together has proven difficult in the past because they don't have time to close up and come to a meeting and they're scared of the landlord. Sounds like meat and drink for a commercial estate agent and a commercial property lawyer.
Completely agree with your sentiment! If they go, it'll truly be the final nail in the coffin for Brixton market. Speaking from personal experiences, the only reason I will often go to the market is just to shop there, and as a consequence will pick a few things up from the other stall holders. If they go, I'll probably end up doing all my grocery shopping from Goldhawk Road market (really the only other place I can get my Arabic products from) which as you can imagine is geographically shit.
As someone above said, it is crazy that they are always packed inside yet can't afford to stay in their current location. I am surprised all the butchers can afford to stay open (unless they are not renting from LAP).
miss minnie
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Glad that's cleard up. Don't give up the day job to go into marketing Nick!Right, I've spoken to the bloke who knows. The £2 cone includes a scoop of ice cream.
Anyway, being as I'm on a diet for this whole year, the new purveyors of fat and carbs in the market won't be getting a penny out of me.
fucking shit! Utter fucking shit!
That makes me so angry!
Replacing a staple of brixton life with a cunting hipster establishment. I can't wait for the next property collapse- here's hoping to the demise of lap.
miss minnie
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It may have been covered in another thread, but how is a retrospective rent increase even legal? What kind of contracts do the shop/stall keepers have with the landlord?
teenslain
Gentrifying Brixton since 2005...
I've just registered on here to vent about Nour's closure... I totally echo what most people have already said, it's disgusting that a wonderful local store like Nour should be forced to close by money-grabbing landlords... Starbuck's was obviously a sign of things to come... And is it true that Leon are opening up down here too? And why is the Effra now full of tw*ts who seem to have mistaken Brixton for Dalston?
#depressed
#depressed
Mrs Magpie
On a bit of break...
Is Greg Truscott still writing for the South London Press? Might be worth alerting him to local concerns about this.
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hiraethified
I wonder if it's the same fucking arsehole who runs the tattoo shop.Yeah. That will probably happen if it's libellous you tit. You seem to know a lot for someone who's only just joined
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