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[editor]

If they have a nice vegan option I’m sure vegans would be interested to know about it.

Be a bit of a rubbish vegan guide if it started including meat-heavy places that had just one vegan option. That would be like having a guide to wine bars and including a pub that had just one wine on the menu.

And you do understand that many vegans wouldn't feel comfortable sitting in a place where meat made up almost the entire menu and everyone around was slobbering away over their chicken wings or dripping burgers?

Anyway, I've made my choice and I won't be listing places that don't adequately cater for vegans.

 

[Jimbeau]

This debate makes me feel my age.

When I turned veggie back in the 80s venues that catered to my proclivities were of the Cranks school of worthy specialists or they were Italian or Indian places. Beyond that, knowing whether a pub or restaurant had any kind of veggie 'choice' was often the deciding factor for my opting in or out of a group social occasion - cue a regular pattern of phoning ahead and never knowing if info was reliable. 30-odd years on and I rarely need to think about it in the UK. (It's true too that a brood of nippers vastly hampers the number of invites I get, but that's another matter entirely.)

I'm sure in time vegans will be able to take things for granted in the same way. For now though, I think listings that distinguish between Vegan, Vegan-Friendly and Vegan Dishes Available, much like the old Vegetarian Society guidebooks did, will have their uses for many people.

 

[editor]

This debate makes me feel my age.

When I turned veggie back in the 80s venues that catered to my proclivities were of the Cranks school of worthy specialists or they were Italian or Indian places. Beyond that, knowing whether a pub or restaurant had any kind of veggie 'choice' was often the deciding factor for my opting in or out of a group social occasion - cue a regular pattern of phoning ahead and never knowing if info was reliable. 30-odd years on and I rarely need to think about it in the UK.

When I tour some parts of Europe, the clock can go right back to those grim days! I was offered a 'veggie soup' in Portugal and I see and smell the beef fat on the surface!

 

[Jimbeau]

When I tour some parts of Europe, the clock can go right back to those grim days! I was offered a 'veggie soup' in Portugal and I see and smell the beef fat on the surface!

That's a familiar scenario. My working life has frequently found me in places where western veggie food culture is either anathema or considered an affectation. I've always tried to put up and shut up in places where I can't communicate or when I'm served something prepared with good intentions and/or where refusal would cause offence.

 

[Jimbeau]

That's a familiar scenario. My working life has frequently found me in places where western veggie food culture is either anathema or considered an affectation. I've always tried to put up and shut up in places where I can't communicate or when I'm served something prepared with good intentions and/or where refusal would cause offence.

That sounds twattier than I intended. I'm not a spy or an oligarch or anything - just a schmo who does NGO stuff.

 

[alex_]

So do I. But my original comment stemmed from a fried chicken joint with a big FRIED CHICKEN neon sign in their window asking to be included in a listing of Vegan restaurants in Brixton. I explained the reasons why I was reluctant to do so as it all seemed a bit half arsed and it would feel a bit odd recommending it to vegans. What's your opinion?

Yes this woudnt be a vegan food guide - pretty much everywhere has one vegan option now.

totally agree

 

[alex_]

That sounds twattier than I intended. I'm not a spy or an oligarch or anything - just a schmo who does NGO stuff.

That’s what a spy would say !

 

[Jimbeau]

That’s what a spy would say !

Dagnabbit. Rumbled.

 

[dbs1fan]

Way outside Brixton, I know, but got to give Blue Jay cafe in Portland Rd. South Norwood a mention. It was reviewed by Jay Rayner in the company of Stormzy in a recent Guardian article. I visited on Saturday with two fellow meat eaters, a vegetarian and a vegan. The menu choice of Caribbean food was superb. Everyone left satisfied and impressed.

 

[editor]

Way outside Brixton, I know, but got to give Blue Jay cafe in Portland Rd. South Norwood a mention. It was reviewed by Jay Rayner in the company of Stormzy in a recent Guardian article. I visited on Saturday with two fellow meat eaters, a vegetarian and a vegan. The menu choice of Caribbean food was superb. Everyone left satisfied and impressed.

Have to say a review by posh Jay Rayner is not something that makes me want to go to any restaurant but I looked up the review and it looks pretty good and affordable.

'It's a focus for the community': Stormzy takes Jay Rayner to his favourite cafe

For the full flavour of Caribbean food and an insight into his upbringing, the star takes the Observer’s restaurant critic to south London’s Bluejay Cafe

www.theguardian.com

 

[jimbarkanoodle]

Jay Rayner got the hump with me big time after i trolled one of his reviews in the Guardian comments section, mentioning he had been seen in Pizza Express, Herne Hill.

 

[editor]

Jay Rayner got the hump with me big time after i trolled one of his reviews in the Guardian comments section, mentioning he had been seen in Pizza Express, Herne Hill.

He made some snotty tweet about this site once too. I think he posted here for a while too.

 

[blameless77]

He made some snotty tweet about this site once too. I think he posted here for a while too.

He's alright. At least his reviews seem pretty balanced.

 

[Monkeygrinder's Organ]

He made some snotty tweet about this site once too. I think he posted here for a while too.

Yeah he did briefly post here a long time ago. I don't find him all that objectionable tbh, at least for someone who's got himself an incredibly cushy job off the back of nepotism. He's better than that Sitwell wanker anyway.

 

[editor]

More fast food. More booze. More tourists.

Meat Liquor chain returns to Brixton with new premises in Electric Lane, Brixton

The Meat Liquor restaurant group will soon be returning to Brixton, opening up in newly-built premises on Electric Lane, bringing their popular brand of ‘burgers and booze’ to SW9. UPDA…

www.brixtonbuzz.com

 

[Big Bertha]

More fast food. More booze. More tourists.

Meat Liquor chain returns to Brixton with new premises in Electric Lane, Brixton

The Meat Liquor restaurant group will soon be returning to Brixton, opening up in newly-built premises on Electric Lane, bringing their popular brand of ‘burgers and booze’ to SW9. UPDA…

www.brixtonbuzz.com

Really good burgers tho...

 

[editor]

Really good burgers tho...

Prices at the standard hipster rate and washed down with rip off beer prices. I won't be visiting, thanks.

 

[T & P]

That burger looks tasty as fuck...

 

[Big Bertha]

That burger looks tasty as fuck...

I went to their original place down in new cross years ago. Was fantastic

 

[editor]

I went to their original place down in new cross years ago. Was fantastic

I'm so happy for you. In nu Brixton you'll now never be more than 5 minutes away from a trendy dirty burger/chicken wings place. If you have the disposable cash to pay for them, of course.

 

[Big Bertha]

I'm so happy for you. In nu Brixton you'll now never be more than 5 minutes away from a trendy dirty burger/chicken wings place. If you have the disposable cash to pay for them, of course.

Money can be exchanged for goods and services!

 

[editor]

Money can be exchanged for goods and services!

What are you on about?

 

[Big Bertha]

What are you on about?

Your statement that everything was AOK if you had money to pay for it seemed unnecessary.

 

[editor]

Your statement that everything was AOK if you had money to pay for it seemed unnecessary.

These new places are solely for those who can afford them, and clearly £10 cocktails and £10 burgers automatically exclude a large chunk of the population. And all you can do is go on about how delicious they are.

I've yet to hear you voice any concerns about how divisive the influx of unaffordable restaurants are, so I can only presume that you're a cheerleader for gentrification.

 

[Gramsci]

More fast food. More booze. More tourists.

Meat Liquor chain returns to Brixton with new premises in Electric Lane, Brixton

The Meat Liquor restaurant group will soon be returning to Brixton, opening up in newly-built premises on Electric Lane, bringing their popular brand of ‘burgers and booze’ to SW9. UPDA…

www.brixtonbuzz.com

This new burgers and booze place planning application was opposd by Brixton Society ( and I opposed it individually.)

See the article has the comment from previous discussion of this on Urban:

People living in Electric Avenue and central Brixton have been complaining about late night and evening noise and disturbance. Allowing yet another restaurant/ bar will only increase the over saturation of central Brixton with late evening and night entertainment. I note directly opposite and behind this proposed restaurant there is residential housing. A better use of this site is office/ workshop space.

There are plenty of restaurant/ bars in Brixton. No need for any more spaces to be converted into this use.

I still don't think this site is suitable for this kind of use.

 

[djdando]

This new burgers and booze place planning application was opposd by Brixton Society ( and I opposed it individually.)

See the article has the comment from previous discussion of this on Urban:



I still don't think this site is suitable for this kind of use.

So you actually think that it's better to be left as a rank, littered, alleyway?

 

[Gramsci]

So you actually think that it's better to be left as a rank, littered, alleyway?

No.

Why do you think that? Its not what I said or implied.

 

[editor]

So you actually think that it's better to be left as a rank, littered, alleyway?

Amazingly, it doesn't boil down to something as crass as an either/or situation.

You make it sound like the presence of Meat Liquor is somehow going to turn the street into a Parisian walkway when in fact they'll certainly be contributing to increased noise for local residents and quite possibly litter too.

And I must have missed the bit where they pledged to clean up the entire alley. Where are you getting that from?

 

[jimbarkanoodle]

The one in East Dulwich is shit. I went in once as id noticed they do a lunch deal, £10 for a burger, chips and drink.

I should have double checked first, but when i got there i found out it was only a soft drink, they add on a service charge at the end, and add on £1 for charity, which is optional, but you're hardly gona tell them to take it off are you. So by the time im done this 'lunch deal' has cost me £12.50, and it wasnt even that nice.

 

[editor]

The one in East Dulwich is shit. I went in once as id noticed they do a lunch deal, £10 for a burger, chips and drink.

I should have double checked first, but when i got there i found out it was only a soft drink, they add on a service charge at the end, and add on £1 for charity, which is optional, but you're hardly gona tell them to take it off are you. So by the time im done this 'lunch deal' has cost me £12.50, and it wasnt even that nice.

It's such bullshit when companies add a £1 or whatever to your meal so that it goes to the charity of their choice, and they make a big deal of it. If they want to give to charity and scoop in all that positive PR, they should do it with their own fucking money.