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hiraethified
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!
Brixton food & drink news: new restaurants, bars, pop ups, cafes and more
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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.
Yes this woudnt be a vegan food guide - pretty much everywhere has one vegan option now.
totally agree
That’s what a spy would say !
Dagnabbit. Rumbled.
dbs1fan
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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.
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hiraethified
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
jimbarkanoodle
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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.
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hiraethified
He made some snotty tweet about this site once too. I think he posted here for a while too.
blameless77
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He's alright. At least his reviews seem pretty balanced.
Monkeygrinder's Organ
Dodgy geezer swilling vapid lager
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.
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hiraethified
More fast food. More booze. More tourists.
www.brixtonbuzz.com
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...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…
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hiraethified
Prices at the standard hipster rate and washed down with rip off beer prices. I won't be visiting, thanks.
I went to their original place down in new cross years ago. Was fantasticThat burger looks tasty as fuck...
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hiraethified
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!
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hiraethified
What are you on about?Money can be exchanged for goods and services!
Your statement that everything was AOK if you had money to pay for it seemed unnecessary.
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hiraethified
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
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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…
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
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hiraethified
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
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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.
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.
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hiraethified
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.
jimbarkanoodle
Well-Known Member
Thought the same, if they are that keen to help charity, then they can feel free to give some of their profits from £10 burgers and £5 beers, not dump it onto my bill!
nick
Pleomorphic Adenomas R us
It would be ideal if organisations did the 1% club (donate 1% of turnover to charity) - but they don't
From involvement with a local charity that benefited from this extra £1 on the bills, I can tell you that we were very grateful for the funds raised by this method..
(FWIW it was a local non-chain streatham restaurant - and I don't recall that they piggy backed off it in some sort of cheap PR blitz: they were just kind enough to allow us to take a bit of their table space in order to leave the explanatory cards and to process the finances. Thank you again - the now departed - Bocca)
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