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Had dinner in the Vilaaaaaaaaage Saturday evening, the Khoa San Thai place. With a bring your own booze policy we had 3 starters and 2 mains coming in at under £35 and a delightfully rude waiter to boot :D

Would highly recommend
 
Had dinner in the Vilaaaaaaaaage Saturday evening, the Khoa San Thai place. With a bring your own booze policy we had 3 starters and 2 mains coming in at under £35 and a delightfully rude waiter to boot :D

Would highly recommend

The Joint does BYO too. (Or did until recently). Big saving.
 
Brixton Jobcentre are tweeting this:


HOw come they are allowed to specify "male"?
 
Brixton Jobcentre are tweeting this:


HOw come they are allowed to specify "male"?


There are exceptions under the Equality Act 2010 for occupational requirement. If someone pulled them up on it I think they'd have to prove it was genuine. I guess they might argue cos it's a gay bar they need a male, but I think they might be on shaky ground tbh, although I'm a bit rusty on this stuff these days.. It's on p14-18 of this guidance.

http://www.equalityhumanrights.com/...eans for you as an employer - recruitment.pdf
 
Not sure but they employ plenty of female staff??
Just asking really - I haven't been in since it was "The Brixtonian".
Personally I'd rather they advertised for what they want rather than go through the motions of "equality".

I wonder what happens at Wetherspoons? The Beehive seems to be strictly word of mouth - although they now have an advert of staff in the window.
 
Actually you're right. They did last time I was there. So that advert is probably illegal. Could be a Job Centre cock up/typo but it seems dodgy.
I doubt the people who tweet job ads "operate on a policy level".

Maybe I should fire off an email. It might then turn out that they want "attractive" male staff (i.e. under 30 say). Then they might be in violation of equalities on an age basis.
 
One serving of Tongue turned me into a vegetarian for a decade. never again.
Lol! It can be done very badly all right. I've been served it under cooked, unpeeled etc <huge technicolor yawn>

However done well there is nothing like it. IMHO of course.
 
Actually you're right. They did last time I was there. So that advert is probably illegal. Could be a Job Centre cock up/typo but it seems dodgy.

If they employ loads of female staff, could they justify ad on ground that they wanted to even up numbers?
 
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If they employ loads of female staff, could they justify ad on ground that they wanted to even up numbers?

Disclaimer - not a lawyer but used to work in this world.

As far as I understand you could advertise saying you welcome applications from men if they're under-represented in the workforce and you want to address that. It's covered by positive action. But you can't specify that you want a man under positive action. You can only do that under occupational requirement as I mentioned above afaik. The example that's usually used is a female worker for a woman's refuge for example.

Under positive action you still have to employ the best person who applies so it could be challenged by a woman who didn't get the job and she could take them to a tribunal if she can prove that she was the best candidate for the role and they only employed the successful candidate because he was a man. Although realistically this is unllikely to happen given the high costs of ETs these days.
 
Any recommendations for somewhere to meet for a friend for coffee/cake of an afternoon? I'm not accustomed to seeing people outside of a pub, as a loss for a good place to meet.
 
Any recommendations for somewhere to meet for a friend for coffee/cake of an afternoon? I'm not accustomed to seeing people outside of a pub, as a loss for a good place to meet.
There is that cake shop at the very back of Brixton Village - if you go in the Pope's Road entrance it's on the right opposite the bar that does folk music in the evenings.
 
There is that cake shop at the very back of Brixton Village - if you go in the Pope's Road entrance it's on the right opposite the bar that does folk music in the evenings.
I guess you mean opposite the Agile Rabbit. The cakes look nice but it's not the most appealing space for a coffee. There's also the small cafe in Wild Caper.

The best place for a relaxing coffee by miles for me is the Cable Cafe at the top of Brixton Road. Art Noveau in Atlantic Road is pretty good too, as is the Lounge, although I'm not sure what their cake offerings are like.
 
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I have a question about Kricket, which it seems a lot of folk like.

How small are the small plates? ie. how many do you have to get in order not to leave hungry?
 
Might give it a go despite objecting to the "small plates" concept in general.

I would go for 3 myself, but I'm a greedy bastard.

The advantage of 2 however is that you can designate one as the starter and the other as the main course and thereby preserve your non-hipster credentials.
 
On curry but not in Brixton, we are going to Rasa in Stoke Newington tonight. Amazing South Indian food. Veggie too but not so you realise.
 
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