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I noticed that for the first time a couple of weeks ago. It's the only thing apart from the toilets that I've noticed where you can get access to upstairs so I quite fancied popping in. too late now I guess.
 
trabuquera said:
The slightly random mini-constellation of Brazilian-themed businesses (a restaurant + a butcher's + a hair salon) clustered in Brixton market (few doors down from Franco Manca / opposite the Mexican place) is now papered with A4 flyers saying LOCKS CHANGED - REPORT TO MANAGEMENT OFFICE. So, either the militant class rebranding of the market is marching on, or the Brazilians just weren't very good at paying their rent.

Not necessarily anyone's fault, and I have to admit I never found the time or money myself to go and eat Feijao de Luis in the upstairs room, even if there was a huuuuuuuge flatscreen TV and a rather nice plastic window-sticker of the Cristo de Rio Janeiro up there .... but it's a bit sad, and made me feel even sadder to see when it's directly opposite from a newly-opened, very hipstercentric new tapas bar for the Clapham set.
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Slightly harsh: One of the guys running the tapas bar (Seven) comes from Peckham, and they are very friendly. Wine prices seem relatively low too.
 
Anyone eaten at Sema's Cafe (23 Tulse Hill) before?
Just realised last night that I have been 2 minutes away and never been in.
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Greebo said:
<shrug> Anyway, it doesn't seem to get a lot of passing trade which is weird, given how near it is to the bus stop.
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I know. Oddly I have strolled into all other eateries in the area, just not that one. Oh well, we may never know.
 
7 years I've lived about the same distance away as you and not been. Gaijinboy has - said it was "ok"... cheap, not v. good cafe food. It's always busy early I think.
 
gaijingirl said:
7 years I've lived about the same distance away as you and not been. Gaijinboy has - said it was "ok"... cheap, not v. good cafe food. It's always busy early I think.
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I have eaten in the little Portuguese place which was also not v. good cafe food but SO cheap I wanted to apologise to them after paying. Will give the place a try soon and report back...
 
Ah my guilty sin from Nune's is takeaway tortilla rolls... which are quite nice but a bit naughty really. We eat quite a lot at cafes and gaijinboy wasn't that impressed with Semas... so I've never felt that inclined to try it tbh.
 
Sema's is alright - serviceable classic style caff food served in huge quantities, plenty of 'breakfast special' plates on offer. You're not going to be singing the praises of their organic high quality sausages or cheshire wind dried bacon perhaps , but if you want a lot of greasy food on a plate it's really not bad. Some minus points for serving eggs in those moulded round shapes mind

Sad that Feijoada de Luis (?) has closed down. Ate there a couple of times and they boasted good, cheap and big plates of Brazilian staples - their feijoida was unsurprisingly splendid for example. Really friendly too, entertaining my rudimentary Portuguese and generally seeming happy to have us in there, the chef popping out for a chat and to see how we got on with the food. Seemed to be a lot of friends and families in there - loads of children in particular - and a bit of a relaxed community feel about the place, everyone chatting away and popping in to meet each other. Offered something genuinely different from the surrounds, not least because it gave you the experience of eating upstairs and looking down on the market. Even had its own toilet too, so I suspect that the landlords could see some real potential there once the Brazilians had cleaned the place thoroughly up.
 
tarannau said:
Sad that Feijoada de Luis (?) has closed down. ... Even had its own toilet too, so I suspect that the landlords could see some real potential there once the Brazilians had cleaned the place thoroughly up.
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It's tough that tenants have to take the risk and expense of doing places up.
 
tarannau said:
Sema's is alright - serviceable classic style caff food served in huge quantities, plenty of 'breakfast special' plates on offer. You're not going to be singing the praises of their organic high quality sausages or cheshire wind dried bacon perhaps , but if you want a lot of greasy food on a plate it's really not bad. Some minus points for serving eggs in those moulded round shapes mind
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Should have asked you first really :D

I want some Cheshire wind dried bacon now :(
 
leanderman said:
It's tough that tenants have to take the risk and expense of doing places up.
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They had done a grand job of bringing that space back into life fwiw. Sadly no matter how clean they got their immediate surroundings inside there was a problem - when you were looking down at the market from its elevated position you could see new areas of long accumulated grime, untouched for years. The landlords could certainly have done with getting a cherry picker and cleaning some of the areas above floor level.
 
Badgers said:
I want some Cheshire wind dried bacon now :(
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Ha ha. I've now got this picture in my mind of some burnt-out venture capitalist sticking rashers of bacon on a washing line somewhere outside of Leftwich, with a Guardian food correspondent wading through a field in Glastonbury-bought wellies to interview him.
 
twistedAM said:
Ha ha. I've now got this picture in my mind of some burnt-out venture capitalist sticking rashers of bacon on a washing line somewhere outside of Leftwich, with a Guardian food correspondent wading through a field in Glastonbury-bought wellies to interview him.
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:D
 
I've eaten in Seema's many times - its a caff - but very cheap, speedy and big portions. Always busy at 12 noon with builders which is a good sign

The lady (dunno if her name is Seema) is always very friendly.
 
that ghetto blaster fabric screen thing on the front of the old fridge (now brixton electric) got ripped in the wind and partially fell down a few days ago. It's now been removed completely and the front of the building has an exciting new grey paint job.
 
BTW - Sema's cafe - bog standard caff IMO although some mates in Josephine Avenue made it their local for a while, before they had to move house. (Anastasi's round there was good...but has been made in to flats now)
 
sparkybird said:
I've eaten in Seema's many times - its a caff - but very cheap, speedy and big portions. Always busy at 12 noon with builders which is a good sign

The lady (dunno if her name is Seema) is always very friendly.
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Gonna go in this weekend if budgets permit :)
 
Went to Casa Morita the other day and had Huevos Rancheros which was pretty good but swimming in a sea of salsa. Girlfriend hatter had the quesidillas which she said were good but not as good as the ones from El Panzon. Casa Morita staff very friendly, polite and helpful. They've done well out of a fairly small space tbh.

That new tapas place called "Seven" (which is between franco manca and Casa Morita) is now open. Looks fairly basic inside but still manages to give off an air of poshness!
 
Brixton Hatter said:
BTW - Sema's cafe - bog standard caff IMO although some mates in Josephine Avenue made it their local for a while, before they had to move house. (Anastasi's round there was good...but has been made in to flats now)
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oh yeah... Anastasi's was lovely... had completely forgotten about that.. there's a blast from the past!
 
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