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TopCat said:
Many punters?
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Not really. Largely empty inside, quite a few people in the garden, one group blasting their own music on portable speakers to the irritation of other, older drinkers.

Together with the above, and the manager being suspended, you wonder how long Greene King will put up with it before they make some big changes. They are a huge Pubco with profits to be made, after all.
 
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Just been hearing about this from the suspended party. Well done to Greene King for living up to their reputation for ruthlessness. I'm sure they won't regret it.
 
jimbarkanoodle said:
Not really. Largely empty inside, quite a few people in the garden, one group blasting their own music on portable speakers to the irritation of other, older drinkers.

Together with the above, and the manager being suspended, you wonder how long Greene King will put up with it before they make some big changes. They are a huge Pubco with profits to be made, after all.
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I fear for the future of the Albert. :(
 
This is great from the owner of a soon to be open place in the Market
Hacha will shut one day a week so its not-for-profit organisation Equal Measures can offer training, mentorship and workshops designd to improve the representation of BAME communities in the hospitality industry.
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Bar owner calls for hospitality to take part in Equal Measures anti-racism campaign

Deano Moncrieffe, director of Hacha bar in London’s Dalston, is launching the Equal Measures campaign this month to improve diversity and tackle racism in the hospitality industry.
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He and his family are still living above the pub, and will be for as long as they want because it would be so difficult to remove him. The rift with the brewery happened when he told them he wanted to quit and return to Poland. After 14 years in the job he suddenly became a non-person in their eyes. He has a new job lined up. It involves coming back to London often. He's going to have a farewell party, but I don't know when. The pub has an interim manager and the brewery are looking for someone permanent.
 
cuppa tee said:
I got dragged to the one by oxford circus, a grim experience...
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I have fond memories of the one in covent garden..i was a runner for a vfx place and i got sent there to pick up lunch for people on the day it opened (i remember there was a lot of excitement about it). There was a massiveeee queue and I got to chill out in the sunshine for ages waiting for the food ha. It’s never appealed to me as the veggie options look quite boring and I’ve heard a lot of people say it’s overrated.
 
I find the burgers decent, but overpriced. Only been in one store (Putney) which was quite messy and not somewhere to linger.
 
The building was going to be used by the grim-sounding, Meat Liquor hipster chain, so I guess that Five Guys are marginally less awful, not that I'll ever be buying anything from them.
 
editor said:
Yeah, great ;/

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US burger chain Five Guys to open in Electric Lane, Brixton

Brixton is getting another multinational burger chain in the form of Five Guys, which will be opening in Electric Lane soon.
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....talking of Electric Lane there is a council meeting tonight to discuss if a premiseslicense be granted for Impact Brixton home to the Black Bar discussed here previously...( link to pdf )
....looks like there is a fair bit of opposition to this from lthe Brixton society,local councillors and residents.....
 
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editor said:
The building was going to be used by the grim-sounding, Meat Liquor hipster chain, so I guess that Five Guys are marginally less awful, not that I'll ever be buying anything from them.
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I dislike Meat Liquor ('Dead Hippie' lolz :rolleyes:) but I think they can at least claim to have started out quite small in South London, and do give discount to Dulwich Hamlet fans before and after the game in the East Dulwich branch.

Five Guys is an American McDonald's type place (probably with thousands of outlets) with a USP of charging more money for their fast food burger and fries. Im not sure the savvy kids of Brixton will be fooled into paying more than McD's for their food, it would be amusing if 'Five Guys' was a failure, like that 'Dirty Burger' (or whatever it was called) turned out to be.
 
GarveyLives said:
A recent review of the Brixton branch of the Turtle Bay chain:

I ate at Trip Advisor's top rated Caribbean restaurant in London and it gave me a stomach ache
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It looks like many of this place's 5 star reviews on Trip Advisor are written by reviewers with 1 review to their name, which means they either bribed customers to do it or simply wrote the reviews themselves. Im glad of the honest article you have posted, as it means i wont be fooled into ever eating there.
 
jimbarkanoodle said:
I dislike Meat Liquor ('Dead Hippie' lolz :rolleyes:) but I think they can at least claim to have started out quite small in South London, and do give discount to Dulwich Hamlet fans before and after the game in the East Dulwich branch.

Five Guys is an American McDonald's type place (probably with thousands of outlets) with a USP of charging more money for their fast food burger and fries. Im not sure the savvy kids of Brixton will be fooled into paying more than McD's for their food, it would be amusing if 'Five Guys' was a failure, like that 'Dirty Burger' (or whatever it was called) turned out to be.
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I really liked their original outlet in New Cross. Fantastic burgers
 
jimbarkanoodle said:
It looks like many of this place's 5 star reviews on Trip Advisor are written by reviewers with 1 review to their name, which means they either bribed customers to do it or simply wrote the reviews themselves. Im glad of the honest article you have posted, as it means i wont be fooled into ever eating there.
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Think it's also partly as the author of the article suggests, a lot of them have been posted by people that just for the drinks, take up residency and get pished. So naturally they think it's great.
 
Ryan2468 said:
Think it's also partly as the author of the article suggests, a lot of them have been posted by people that just for the drinks, take up residency and get pished. So naturally they think it's great.
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True, and maybe a free round of watery shots if you go on TripAdvisor there and then and big them up
 
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