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Brixton Villaaaaage.
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twistedAM
Left Of The Dial
Surely it's been open long enough to qualify as Village rather than Villaaaaaage?
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hiraethified
The Villaaaaage refers to the collective area where they are located in. Each time I go past it seems to have Claphamised a little bit more although there are - thankfully - still some outposts of 'normal' Brixton left in there.
trabuquera
Modesty Bag
For information only, not (just pure) pedantry: it's called El Rancho de LALO (not Lala) and it's right next to Fish, Wings and Tings. I will avoid the village/villaaaage thing by referring to it as "the southeastern corner of the historic covered market complex". And yes those empanadas are fantastic.
EastEnder
Brixton Barnacle
Decades from now it'll be renamed to something even trendier like "Zone" or "Happening" or "Enigma" (I vote for that one), and all the old timers will revel in lambasting the passing of the cherished "Village"
CH1
"Red Guard"(NLYL)
I would like to think they entertain you like this whilst you imbibe - chance would be a fine thing
brixtonblade
Well-Known Member
Ta, I'll check it out. I've not eaten in that area for ages
T & P
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In this forum, no chance.
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hiraethified
Thank heavens you've jumped in to stir the pot. Always helpful.
Rushy
basically a scrotum
Run by the lesser known Mexican tellytubby, I believe.
T & P
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My post is no more stirring than your continuing spelling of Village as Villaaaage.
For what's worth I don't think either contribution is particularly controversial, but if you insist on missspelling a word for the purpose of mocking or deriding a venue or the people who frequent it, I really can't see how you could possibly complain about someone simply commenting on the act
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hiraethified
If that 'stirs' you up I think you need to relax a bit. I live more or less next door to the place and don't like the foodie yuppie tourist paradise it's turns into on weekends, nor do I like the way the surrounding area has become the public toilet for its boozed up patrons. The place remains the poster boy for every social housing-free unaffordable development that belches up in Brixton. So Villaaaage it is, with its poncey chocolat shop and champagne flute toting nu-grazers adding more pressure on the few remaining normal shop units there.
Most of the people I know on my estate stopped visiting there a long time ago.
T & P
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Er, I never said it stirred me up; in fact it was you who first used that verb in this conversation. But I'm really not prepared to have an argument over such a monumentally trivial matter, so I'm bowing out. Good night.
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hiraethified
Back to the new foodie haunts of Brixton: Dirty Burger really seems to be doing disastrously badly. Every time I go by I rarely see more than a handful of people inside - sometimes it's completely empty. I hope it's a marker that Peak Expensive Hipster Burger has finally been reached in Brixton.
twistedAM
Left Of The Dial
Decades from now it'll be renamed to something even trendier like "Zone" or "Happening" or "Enigma" (I vote for that one), and all the old timers will revel in lambasting the passing of the cherished "Village"
It's usual for an area to be quartered at some point. Manchester is big on such things inventing areas like the Northern Quarter. I presume there are three others but I forget their monikers.
twistedAM
Left Of The Dial
Yeah but I still think it's a tad unfair to paint a good business like this with the same brush as well-financed newbies - just because it's surrounded by Claphamish places doesn't mean it shouldn't be supported.
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hiraethified
I don't think I've tarred it any way (at least, that wasn't my intention). I just described the location in which it can be found, as asked.
Ms T
Honey-coloured ramparts
Dip and Flip isn't busy either. Too many burgers, obviously.
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hiraethified
They're also on the Boulevard Of Broken Dreams (well, OK, that's a slightly dramatic way of pointing out that Kaff was the only business to ever prosper in that building and that was before the lucre-loving landlords hoiked the rent waaaay up).
Brixton 15 Years Ago: Howes on Atlantic Road (later Kaff and Dip & Flip) – July 2001 photos
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hiraethified
Rum Kitchen opens on the 1st Aug.
Caribbean-themed Rum Kitchen bar/restaurant to open in Brixton on 1st August
Caribbean-themed Rum Kitchen bar/restaurant to open in Brixton on 1st August
twistedAM
Left Of The Dial
Walked past Dirty Burger at around 1230 today and yesterday and the grand total of people in there was zero. Lots of totally empty places in the Village/Villaaaaaggge and Market Row too though.
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hiraethified
Most times I pass there it's completely empty and I often pass by an equally deserted Pop in the daytime.
I'd imagine that a lot of businesses in the Village/Villaaaaaggge/Villaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaage, Market Row and Pop are very heavily reliant on the boozy night/weekend crowd to keep afloat.
I don't think I've ever seen anyone in that chocolatier place in the Village but maybe they're just placeholding for the inevitable gentrification 'upgrade.'
I've just looked the place up. It's very lah de dah.
snowy_again
Slush
La Lupa was also a success for a brief while, offering food, drink and music for a range of people on different budgets.
Did you ever find out who the long standing landlords were?
Same as the Vauxhall one, whereas Nando's was packed.
Did you ever find out who the long standing landlords were?
Same as the Vauxhall one, whereas Nando's was packed.
Farmer Giles
Well-Known Member
One of those Dip N Flip has opened in Tooting, right opposite Honest Burger. Let the brioche wars begin.
organicpanda
cat herder extraodinaire
one thing I have found increasingly annoying is being charged £1.50 extra for something that is gluten-free (pizza base, rice noodles etc), various places in Brixton now do this when there is no justification on cost, so what is their reason? as far as I can see it's a tax on an allergy
cuppa tee
Well-Known Member
this is the gaff that was meant to open in the cab office by the Albert isn't it....backed by " Angel Investors " it appears........ {{meta.ogtitle}}
trabuquera
Modesty Bag
In the spirit of nosy intolerance I tried out Dip & Flip in recent days. The following comments are for information only.
It's yet another nu-mini-chain affair selling, basically, poshed-up burgers & fries at around the £8-£11 mark. But the "unique" selling point - what is meant to set it apart from Honest, Dirty or Byron burgers - is the other "dip" offer: a large ((very large) sliced-roast-meat sandwich (beef, lamb or chicken available) in a crustyish roll - no brioches here, no sir - with one sauce and a drenching of gravy. You can decide how intense you want the gravy-dunking to be (meat only, or meat and bun too?) and don't worry, you also get a small dish (NOT A RAMEKIN) of more gravy to do more dipping with.
Staff were young, posh-ish, enthusiastic and pleasant. Place was 90%+ empty, but this was a weekday lunchtime. Not bad music. Fully wheelchair-accessible bathroom. Rather disturbing cartoon murals of a range of hipster stereotypes being literally face-drizzled with gravy. Gravy is clearly a very big part of their mission.
Personally I bloody love gravy (so was in the right place) - the version here was deliciously gummy and salty and I could forget that it's probably not made from any real meat at all. Had beef with horseradish roll which was fine ... good fiery kick to the sauce, meat was a bit overcooked imho but tender and good quality, if a bit finely sliced for my taste - and loads of it delicately folded into the bun before they drowned the whole thing in gravy. Properly excellent fries, hot and crisp and nicely seasoned. A very small spoonful of symbolic slaw served on the side - completely forgettable so I didn't bother to make the symbolic act of eating it. Left feeling absolutely buzzing with salt and refined carbs but not feeling ripped off.
It really does depend on your opinions about gravy in the end.
Do you even like gravy though?
It's yet another nu-mini-chain affair selling, basically, poshed-up burgers & fries at around the £8-£11 mark. But the "unique" selling point - what is meant to set it apart from Honest, Dirty or Byron burgers - is the other "dip" offer: a large ((very large) sliced-roast-meat sandwich (beef, lamb or chicken available) in a crustyish roll - no brioches here, no sir - with one sauce and a drenching of gravy. You can decide how intense you want the gravy-dunking to be (meat only, or meat and bun too?) and don't worry, you also get a small dish (NOT A RAMEKIN) of more gravy to do more dipping with.
Staff were young, posh-ish, enthusiastic and pleasant. Place was 90%+ empty, but this was a weekday lunchtime. Not bad music. Fully wheelchair-accessible bathroom. Rather disturbing cartoon murals of a range of hipster stereotypes being literally face-drizzled with gravy. Gravy is clearly a very big part of their mission.
Personally I bloody love gravy (so was in the right place) - the version here was deliciously gummy and salty and I could forget that it's probably not made from any real meat at all. Had beef with horseradish roll which was fine ... good fiery kick to the sauce, meat was a bit overcooked imho but tender and good quality, if a bit finely sliced for my taste - and loads of it delicately folded into the bun before they drowned the whole thing in gravy. Properly excellent fries, hot and crisp and nicely seasoned. A very small spoonful of symbolic slaw served on the side - completely forgettable so I didn't bother to make the symbolic act of eating it. Left feeling absolutely buzzing with salt and refined carbs but not feeling ripped off.
It really does depend on your opinions about gravy in the end.
Do you even like gravy though?
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