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[alex_]

I didn’t read it! Maybe Honest have over-expanded?

More likely that Brixton has reached peak fancy burger.

 

[editor]

More likely that Brixton has reached peak fancy burger.

Judging by the people queuing up to eat a pricey Honest burger without a seat in the Villaaaage today, I think not.

 

[djdando]

Honest burgers new vegan burger is outstanding

 

[editor]

Honest burgers new vegan burger is outstanding

It's not made by them though - it's made by Beyond Meat. And if I'm paying £11 to £12.50 for a burger, I'd like to sit down and enjoy it on a plate.

 

[SpamMisery]

Honest burgers new vegan burger is outstanding

Good on them for outsourcing to some expert vegan burger makers rather than an in-house half-arsed effort. They're spending extra cash to deliver something for their customers. And I say that as a militant meat eater.

 

[cuppa tee]

Honest burgers new vegan burger is outstanding

I never figured why a vegan, or vegetarian would want to eat an ersatz meat patty.
What's wrong with a nice fat juicy grilled mushroom ?

E2a is it possible some cannot forego conspicuous consumption of something instagrammable with a hefty price tag.

 

[editor]

I never figured why a vegan, or vegetarian would want to eat an ersatz meat patty.
What's wrong with a nice juicy grilled mushroom ?

Nothing but they get boring after a while. And seeing as we live in a meat eating world, it's easier for people turning veggie/vegan to eat familiar looking/tasting food. I haven't eaten meat for decades but I enjoy eating vegan/veggie sausage sandwiches, burgers, mince or whatever as well as other non-meat foods. It's better to have more choice!

PS I have no interest in Instagramming anything I eat.

 

[T & P]

I’d imagine for those veggies and vegans who would want to avoid all kinds of cross contamination however small, their burger being prepared in a vegan environment would be good news. You have to wonder how many omnivore restaurants offering veggie options have two sets of grills, ovens etc to ensure veggie food never gets near non-veggie food.

 

[editor]

I’d imagine for those veggies and vegans who would want to avoid all kinds of cross contamination however small, their burger being prepared in a vegan environment would be good news. You have to wonder how many omnivore restaurants offering veggie options have two sets of grills, ovens etc to ensure veggie food never gets near non-veggie food.

It's one of the reasons I'm rarely keen on eating veggie fast food in meat-tastic restaurants. The smell of cooking flesh can put me off a bit too.

 

[Winot]

Brixton village launches restaurant incubator

Brixton Village Launches Restaurant Incubator With Leading London Chefs

Jackson Boxer knows his onions. Comes from south London restaurant royalty (Dad ran a deli in Bonnington Square, brothet is the Frank of ‘Franks’, Grandmother is Arabella Boxer the cookery writer and he opened Brunswick House in Vauxhall).

(Edit to correct family relationships)

 

[cuppa tee]

Nothing but they get boring after a while. And seeing as we live in a meat eating world, it's easier for people turning veggie/vegan to eat familiar looking/tasting food. I haven't eaten meat for decades but I enjoy eating vegan/veggie sausage sandwiches, burgers, mince or whatever as well as other non-meat foods. It's better to have more choice!

Good point about the new converts but isn't the choice thing capitalist programming that could well do with binning ?

PS I have no interest in Instagramming anything I eat.

Some do, just saying.

 

[cuppa tee]

Jackson Boxer knows his onions. Comes from south London restaurant royalty (Dad ran a deli in Bonnington Square, brothet is the Frank of ‘Franks’, Grandmother is Arabella Boxer the cookery writer and he opened Brunswick House in Vauxhall).

(Edit to correct family relationships)

Good to see that edit......I was a bit concerned for a minute....wasnt the grandmother known as Lady Arabella Stuart, youngest daughter of the eighteenth Earl of Moray before she married Mark Boxer - Wikipedia

 

[editor]

Good to see that edit......I was a bit concerned for a minute....wasnt the grandmother known as Lady Arabella Stuart, youngest daughter of the eighteenth Earl of Moray before she married Mark Boxer - Wikipedia

I don't know any of these people but are there private schools/royalty/city boys etc involved? Most nu-Brixton ventures seem to be fired by these types.

 

[Winot]

Good to see that edit......I was a bit concerned for a minute....wasnt the grandmother known as Lady Arabella Stuart, youngest daughter of the eighteenth Earl of Moray before she married Mark Boxer - Wikipedia

From the streets

 

[alex_]

I don't know any of these people but are there private schools/royalty/city boys etc involved? Most nu-Brixton ventures seem to be fired by these types.

Almost certainly.

 

[editor]

Here's the Buzz awards for last year:
Brixton Buzz food awards 2018 – our restaurant and cafe favourites from last year

 

[cuppa tee]

From the streets

Sarcasm ? This article says the family home/farm is in rural West Sussex
Two of London’s Hottest Chefs Will Open an Outer Hebrides Restaurant

 

[editor]

Sarcasm ? This article says the family home/farm is in rural West Sussex
Two of London’s Hottest Chefs Will Open an Outer Hebrides Restaurant

They're flying food in from the Hebrides every day. Posh diners 1 Environment 0.

The restaurant interior — a “space which appears unpretentious from the outside, but feels considered and artful to inhabit” — will feature hand dyed linens, reclaimed antique French oak, and lime-washed walls, all designed to “reinforce the simplicity of approach.”

Ya. Totes.

I'll be overseeing the newborn, cooking an aquanautical menu largely inspired by my lifelong love affair with the Outer Hebrides

The aquawhat?

 

[organicpanda]

aquadosh

 

[editor]

What a load of pretentious rich-kid bollocks.

In the interview Boxer says the new restaurant was inspired by a “very, very drunken lunch” two summers ago at his mother’s home, Pound Farm, in West Sussex. One that involved oven- and hearth-roasted meats and fish, raw shellfish and salad and vegetables from the fields that surround the farm. St Leonard’s — named after the church on the same street but also the medieval hermetic saint who lived in a forest, who Boxer calls the “ face of Christianity” — will “attempt to create a high-summer afternoon in Sussex in a more urban setting.”

In a call with Eater this afternoon Boxer said that they were not in any way attempting to “reinvent the wheel” — that what they were doing was very “primal, simple, honest, delicious and accessible.” As well as the English south east, the restaurant will also take inspiration from the French south west, the region that has informed a number of dinners that Clarke has hosted under the brand Bastien

Classic cocktails, and an extensive spirit list, with an emphasis on the cognacs and armagnacs of south western France will also be available.

Brunswick House Chefs to Open New Shoreditch Restaurant

 

[cuppa tee]

What a load of pretentious rich-kid bollocks.


Brunswick House Chefs to Open New Shoreditch Restaurant

Hermeticism and posh restaurants do not really go hand in hand imho

 

[BusLanes]

They seem to be rebranding a bit with new shops - more HONEST than Burger

 

[Gramsci]

Good point about the new converts but isn't the choice thing capitalist programming that could well do with binning ?
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Not really. Point about moving on from capitalism to communism is not to reduce choice but to make it affordable for all.

I find some of the new vegetarian / vegan products interesting. I think it time to move on from idea that being vegetarian or vegan one must limit ones taste choices.

Food is a socially constructed thing. Its manipulating natural products. So I'm all for mass produced vegan/ vegetarian alternatives to the meat industry. Which in an era of climate change is harmful use of earth's resources.

 

[editor]

More about the 'incubator programme' here. Brixton Village launches Brixton Kitchen, a ‘competition and incubator programme’ for foodie entrepreneurs

Gotta love the image. A fishmonger concept.

 

[organicpanda]

More about the 'incubator programme' here. Brixton Village launches Brixton Kitchen, a ‘competition and incubator programme’ for foodie entrepreneurs

Gotta love the image. A fishmonger concept.

now why hasn't anyone thought of running a fishmongers stall in the market before

 

[northeast]

now why hasn't anyone thought of running a fishmongers stall in the market before

To be fair they could be using that as an example of a successful concept that's worked in Brixton so what could the next one be!

 

[editor]

now why hasn't anyone thought of running a fishmongers stall in the market before

Wrong kind of "concept."

 

[editor]

To be fair they could be using that as an example of a successful concept that's worked in Brixton so what could the next one be!

It's not a 'concept' though, is it? It's a traditional business that has been around for centuries.

 

[BusLanes]

There's been a fire on Brixton Hill at the Lisboa Grill, about 30 minutes ago. Just saw a video on Twitter from @food_pix

 

[nick]

There's been a fire on Brixton Hill at the Lisboa Grill, about 30 minutes ago. Just saw a video on Twitter from @food_pix

Noooo