Brixton news, rumour and general chat - April 2014

[sleaterkinney]

Chips with breakfast is just wrong.

 

[clandestino]

I know.

On the plus side, I am three stone lighter.

 

[Greebo]

Chips with breakfast is just wrong.

Unless you had a really good night out and they were bought on the way home.

 

[Onket]

Chips with breakfast is perfectly fine if you're not eating it at breakfast time.

 

[Manter]

There is never a bad time for chips, tbf

 

[Orang Utan]

Chips are the most overrated food in the world.

 

[Onket]

Chips are the most overrated food in the world.

No, that's ketchup.

 

[Miss-Shelf]

Scotland is a long way to go just for breakfast.

I am going to glasgow on the sleeper megabus again on Saturday so I will get there for breakfast on Sunday morning
and i will be having scottish carbohydrates
maybe a hot white roll with potato scone.....

 

[Manter]

Chips are the most overrated food in the world.

Good chips are blissful. But there are a lot of criminally bad chips in the world

 

[editor]

I know.

On the plus side, I am three stone lighter.

You're going to waste away at this rate!

 

[Miss-Shelf]

Good chips are blissful. But there are a lot of criminally bad chips in the world

this is so true and so sad

 

[nagapie]

Chips are the most overrated food in the world.

Yes, together with pizza.

 

[Orang Utan]

Yes, together with pizza.

Aye! And burgers. And most fast foods. Why do they choose the most boring foods to be the fast ones?

 

[Onket]

Pizza is generally average. Agreed.

 

[twistedAM]

Black pudding is essential imo and agreed that potato products have no place to be included in a full English.

Bubble surely??

 

[SarfLondoner]

Sam's cafe on Acre Lane has opened again. It's now on the Lidl side in between the bus stop and that Opus coffee place.

I always use to pop in there for 2x egg n bacon rolls on my cycle to work.

They got displaced a few years ago when the pub/builder yard (was it?) got demolished/redeveloped and is now some flats with a Waitrose underneath.

I went there today and the food was decent and cooked well.The staff were friendly too.

 

[T & P]

I can't believe people do that.

Very good when one has had food poisoning. The more burnt the better, apparently.

Otherwise it hasn't got much use. Well, it's good for dipping into fried egg yolk, but one does not need an entire slice for that.

 

[editor]

I went there today and the food was decent and cooked well.The staff were friendly too.

I might have to give it a go. I've still not found a real replacement for the Phoenix.

 

[leanderman]

An FEB, I find, worsens a hangover.

I attempt them only when sober.

 

[Orang Utan]

I might have to give it a go. I've still not found a real replacement for the Phoenix.

Is it really that different from the old one? It was never a Michelin candidate in the first place. The new place looks so shiny.

 

[editor]

Is it really that different from the old one? It was never a Michelin candidate in the first place. The new place looks so shiny.

It feels like a completely different place. All the things I liked (the intimate seating arrangements, the cosy atmosphere, the slightly run down decor etc) have been replaced by harshly lit, clinical-looking place with higher prices and smaller portions. None of the people I know who were regulars there like it.

Fair breaks my heart, it does.

 

[Orang Utan]

I only really liked it cos of the people there, so if that hasn't changed...
Is it the new permanent home then?

 

[editor]

I only really liked it cos of the people there, so if that hasn't changed...
Is it the new permanent home then?

It's supposed to be temporary until they've finished refurbishing the old place, but I don't think that's going to happen any time soon.

 

[Orang Utan]

 

[isvicthere?]

The urban moot point of what is or isn't a full English (or full Scottish) has become so huge it's taking over the Brixton gossip thread!

 

[Onket]

It's supposed to be temporary until they've finished refurbishing the old place, but I don't think that's going to happen any time soon.

The first, last and only time I went in the new place I was told they are 'hopefully' going back to the old building but it will take 'a couple of years' to renovate & get the building ready first.

I think even if they do go back the damage will have been done.

 

[Badgers]

In Sami's barbers on Rushcroft Road for the spring haircut. Did have a look at the place (seville barber?) opposite Market Row on Coldharbour Lane but they were expensive and closed.

 

[Dexter Deadwood]

In Sami's barbers on Rushcroft Road for the spring haircut. Did have a look at the place (seville barber?) opposite Market Row on Coldharbour Lane but they were expensive and closed.

Photo's would be good. I have a pair of clippers, could have made you look pretty for nothing.

 

[BoxRoom]

In Sami's barbers on Rushcroft Road for the spring haircut. Did have a look at the place (seville barber?) opposite Market Row on Coldharbour Lane but they were expensive and closed.

The Barber de Seville. Those were the buggers that charged me extra because my hair was a bit long!

 

[Badgers]

Photo's would be good. I have a pair of clippers, could have made you look pretty for nothing.

I have clippers but every few months I treat myself