Brixton chitter-chatter and news - May 2012

[sleaterkinney]

There's lots of construction going on in the playground on Railton Road, what are they building there?. A massive wooden thing.

 

[quimcunx]

I like cafe Sitifis (?) coffee.

 

[Mrs Magpie]

There's lots of construction going on in the playground on Railton Road, what are they building there?. A massive wooden thing.

Photo?

 

[colacubes]

I believe they're rebuilding the playground post all the Thames Water work

 

[trabuquera]

I like cafe Sitifis (?) coffee.

you MUST be joking. Cafe Sitifis is a lovely spot, the owners are sweethearts, and the food there is excellent. But the coffee is (sorry guys) pretty poor - weak, bitter, overly diluted and cappuccinos are about 3 times the size they should be (cups the size of soup bowls) but with only a small fraction of the necessary flavour. But, if what you're looking for is a lovely place to sit and while away an hour or two, Sitifis is certainly a better bet than Feds (where you need to be really, really, REALLY needing good coffee to put up with the hassle of getting it, at least in their bigger site)

 

[quimcunx]

No. The coffee I've had there hasn't been at all bitter. It was decidedly smooth and my companion agreed.

Thought I'm not really a fan of really strong coffee or espressos. I'm a latte kind of girl.

 

[uk benzo]

San Marino coffees (at least the milky ones) are rank and bitter in my experience, sorry to say. I'm also a bit less than enthusiastic about the way they've fenced off a serious chunk of the High St's pavement. Ed, do you not have an opinion on that? (Not provoking you for a fight - if San Marino have filled in all the right forms and got the right permissions I'll shut up right now.)

Best alternative to Feds is Opus on Acre Lane, imho - unless you are drinking espressos in which case it's Cafe Max.

I've found San Marino's coffees to be the opposite of what you describe. My milky coffee there has pretty much always been strong and smooth tasting. Fed's coffees have often been borderline tepid- and that's after a 15 minute wait (and £2.80!)! And in terms of ambience, you can't beat people watching on Brixton high street.

 

[London_Calling]

Brickers: The Coffee Wars.

 

[London_Calling]

There's lots of construction going on in the playground on Railton Road, what are they building there?. A massive wooden thing.

Someone posted something about that about three months ago - the funding came through for the playground. they're constructing the climbing frames atm.

 

[quimcunx]

I've had coffee at Feds twice now I think and can't remember anything about it. It's just coffee, people, wherever you get it.

 

[editor]

Fed's coffees have often been borderline tepid- and that's after a 15 minute wait (and £2.80!)!

How did you manage to spend £2.80 on a coffee?

 

[editor]

Talking of which, the TV in The Phoenix isn't a fantastic innovation...

Least the sound is off.

 

[trabuquera]

I've had coffee at Feds twice now I think and can't remember anything about it. It's just coffee, people, wherever you get it.

well if you feel like THAT why don't you just pile in to Starbucks and have done with it? or stay at home with a jar of Gold Blend

 

[Orang Utan]

Gold blend is nice

 

[alfajobrob]

well if you feel like THAT why don't you just pile in to Starbucks and have done with it? or stay at home with a jar of Gold Blend

 

[editor]

Gold blend is nice

Only if you're into drinking something that can only muster the loosest association with the actual taste of coffee.

 

[Orang Utan]

It tastes of coffee. It is coffee.

 

[editor]

It tastes of coffee. It is coffee.

Dairylea 'tastes of' cheese and that's horrid muck too.

 

[Mrs Magpie]

Dairylea 'tastes of' cheese and that's horrid muck too.

Not in a ready salted (or cheese and onion if you're feeling bold) crisp sarnie it isn't.

 

[editor]

Not in a ready salted (or cheese and onion if you're feeling bold) crisp sarnie it isn't.

Good luck with that one.

In November 2008 it was found by the Food Commission, an independent consumer watchdog group, that Kraft Dairylea contained high levels of 3-MCPD, a suspected human carcinogen. In late 2011, a number of health concerns were highlighted by consumers to Dairylea in relation to their packaging using Bisphenol A, a controversial hormone-mimicking plastic additive, which Breast Cancer UK are currently campaigning against.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dairylea_(cheese)

Mmmmm. Delicious!

 

[Orang Utan]

Dairylea also has its place. It and Gold Blend are functional. Nowt wrong with that. Sometimes you just need the hit.

 

[clandestino]

Least the sound is off.

Not when I've been in recently. Switched to music videos with the sound on.

 

[Badgers]

Not when I've been in recently. Switched to music videos with the sound on.

I had the soothing Mladic trial on in the background

 

[kittyP]

Instant coffee is not the same as fresh but def has it's place.
Like I love good cheese but a processed slice on a burger is perfect.

 

[quimcunx]

Where is sun and hot?

 

[Mrs Magpie]

London, today, according to all the weather forecasts.

 

[shakespearegirl]

Neither hot or sunny in brixton at the moment

 

[London_Calling]

26' apparently - I'm waiting

 

[shakespearegirl]

We have sun! not exactly warm yet though

 

[boohoo]

Spotted Adam from the Apprentice in Brixton!