jimbarkanoodle
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Are the market house still doing their happy hour, where a pint is £3 before 8pm?
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I'm not sure. I was chatting with one of the owners yesterday and they said that they were operating at 20% capacity so their margins must be taking a hammering.
jimbarkanoodle
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Well as long as they don't do what the POW have and bang their prices up, then charge you a service charge on top of that for someone to bring you a shitty flat pint in a plastic cup, i know where ill choose to drink given the choice.
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What are their prices like now? I've been enjoying the Railway recently - big garden, proper glasses, easy to use app and swift table service and no service charge. Not the cheapest but it's a pleasant place to be. I wish the Albert and Effra Social would reopen though as there's loads of pub pal regulars I haven't seen since the lockdown.
jimbarkanoodle
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I think the cheapest was £4.90 for a 4% version of Becks, i'd have maybe coped with that had it been served in a glass, fizzy and not with another 40p service charge plonked on it. Also, as i previously posted, to obtain one of these i had to be questioned, photographed, searched, water confiscated and belittled about out of date I.D to be allowed into the venue at 5pm on a Tuesday.
I wont be going anywhere near the place for some time!
I wont be going anywhere near the place for some time!
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That sounds dreadful. But then, getting into the roof bit of the Prince has rarely been a pleasurable experience. How come you were photographed? Was that to ensure you left at the allotted time?
Hootananny's a better bet if you want something vaguely musical but without the interrogation/ID/plastic glasses on a Tuesday.
jimbarkanoodle
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No, it was to check that the I.D matched my face, i presume. A big cross came up on the screen beside it indicating it was invalid, as its over 10 years out of date as i never learnt how to drive. So i was interrogated by the bouncer and told i'd be let in just this once but ought to contact the DVLA asap. I get why they have to do this when letting people into a club night at 11pm on a Friday night, not at 5pm on a Tuesday afternoon to an empty venue to 2 people wanting a quick pint.
I had actually gone to Hootanannys initailly, but it got to about quarter past 5 and they seemed in no hurry to open up so i made the bad decision to try the POW
I had actually gone to Hootanannys initailly, but it got to about quarter past 5 and they seemed in no hurry to open up so i made the bad decision to try the POW
coldwaterswim
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Aren't the albert having a refurb at the min? Sure I read that somewhere
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Yes. I guess they took the opportunity to do the place up. Word is that the notorious bogs will be transformed!
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I took a look at the Dogstar yesterday and it looks more like it used to in the days when it was known as the Atlantic. The DJ booth has gone so I guess that marks a shift in direction for the future. I kinda like seeing it as more of a traditional pub to be honest.
Good to see they were offering their Volden Session beer for just £3.30/pint and the Pale Ale at £4.50/pint isn't so bad. The rest of their draught beers all hover around the fiver/£5.80 mark - the cheapest is Pravha at £4.60 and the most expensive is Gamma Ray at a hefty £6.
Good to see they were offering their Volden Session beer for just £3.30/pint and the Pale Ale at £4.50/pint isn't so bad. The rest of their draught beers all hover around the fiver/£5.80 mark - the cheapest is Pravha at £4.60 and the most expensive is Gamma Ray at a hefty £6.
jimbarkanoodle
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I was in Pratts and Payne last week and prices were the same, i think. Perhaps Antic just pushed them up even more at the EDT to take advantage of the East Dulwich clientele. Bit rubbish if you are not one of the few people round there that doesnt own a £1 million house etc. Its now just as pricey as all the other pubs on Lordship Lane.
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The upmarket Maremma restaurant is reopening this week on Thursday 20th August - initially just a restaurant but with 3-course meals delivered locally and the deli to follow in September.
They are taking bookings online and their opening menu can be viewed on their website.
www.maremmarestaurant.com
They are taking bookings online and their opening menu can be viewed on their website.
Tuscan Food | Maremma Restaurant | United Kingdom
A neighbourhood restaurant in Brixton focusing on regional specialities from the Maremma region in Tuscany, Italy
www.maremmarestaurant.com
coldwaterswim
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Cafe van goph aiming to reopen 15th September with bookings open a week before 
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I'd rather a generic pub than a divisive, on-trend, city-backed unaffordable restaurant/private club/themed bar with sky high prices.
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Max went cap in hand to the city after he set up Gregarious, when Antic went bust due to it's 2.6m debts including HMRC.
So to be precise - it is city backed.
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Yet still affordable. Maybe they will go bust soon anyway and you'll get that upmarket, elitist, divisive trendy bar/restaurant/private bar that you seem to want to replace them.
Never have I said that [ed: name removed]. Never.
what I have made clear is that Antic is a fuckkng shambles of a company.
I have also said that if any nu-Brixton outfit had behaved in such a way the usual sources would be up in arms.
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According to the landlord it will be opening "in September" although I haven't seen any activity either.
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Don't post up my real name please. The rules are very clear on that.
And I'm sorry if this crushes the point you keep banging on and on and on about, but plenty of people here have criticised the company's behaviour in the past. I described them as " a particularly slippery company" in 2015, and have been consistent in my mixed feelings about them. Not sure what else you expect me to say, years later.
And in current news, the Dogstar's renaming back to the Atlantic seems to be proceeding at a rate of knots.
cuppa tee
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hopefully they won’t do the same with the effra social
i remember when Antic were regarded as nu-brixton, the cocktail gaff in the arches being one example.
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Crushes ? LOL. Again no.
I joined less than a year ago Ed (apologies I wasn't aware of the name rules) but I wasn't going to search back 5 years to something you may or may have not said.
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That's somewhat like it looked in 1980 - though I think the lower parts of the windows were frosted and branded, (Ind Coope, Guinness etc). I don't remember any pictures on the walls - if there were any they would have been Bob Marley, Jimmy Cliff etc.)Here's how the Dogstar looks now
They're also putting in new stairs to access the ballroom, which makes sense. Shame the DJ booth has gone. That looks like another source of income for me that's evaporated.
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