Brixton news, rumour and general chat - February 2016

[aka]

Superbowl!

 

[EastEnder]

Superbowl!

In Brixton? Must've been a low key affair, I didn't notice a thing.

 

[editor]

Still loads of people around the Bowie shrine yesterday....

 

[editor]

Liked the woman I was sat next to in the Ritzy cafe. When she was presented with her artisan fare placed on an on-trend wooden board she insisted on having a proper plate, like she'd asked for in the first place.

 

[Nanker Phelge]

Still loads of people around the Bowie shrine yesterday....

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They had to find something to do after failing to get in to Pop.

 

[OvalhouseDB]

Liked the woman I was sat next to in the Ritzy cafe. When she was presented with her artisan fare placed on an on-trend wooden board she insisted on having a proper plate, like she'd asked for in the first place.

I caught part of a song that seemed to be called 'put it on a plate' on a R4 programme on either Fri or Sat that featured the lines:
"I don't want a cup of carrots
I don't want a pint of peas
I don't want a vintage bed pan
full of macaroni cheese"

 

[Rushy]

This is worth a peruse...

We Want Plates

 

[teuchter]

We Want Plates

 

[editor]

I caught part of a song that seemed to be called 'put it on a plate' on a R4 programme on either Fri or Sat that featured the lines:
"I don't want a cup of carrots
I don't want a pint of peas
I don't want a vintage bed pan
full of macaroni cheese"

There's even a pub that's taken to serving shepherd's pies in pint tumbler glasses

 

[Dan U]

I saw a massive roast dinner to share on a wooden board on we want plates.

Where does the gravy go! All over the table?

 

[twistedAM]

I still think the cocktail served in a mini hot water bottle presented on a fucken slipper takes the biscuit. editor whereabouts was this place?

 

[editor]

I still think the cocktail served in a mini hot water bottle presented on a fucken slipper takes the biscuit. editor whereabouts was this place?

In central London :

Peak hipster artisan douchenozzlery achieved in London with the hot water bottle cocktail

Mind you, there could be some even more ludicrous cocktail 'treats' coming up with the medical-themed First Aid Box bar in Herne Hill.

A cocktail in an intravenous drop bag? A cocktail served with a syringe?

How seriously edgy!

First Aid Box – a new cafe/cocktail bar for Herne Hill from Brixton’s Shrub & Shutter team

 

[twistedAM]

Ah the IV drip thing is probably just a homage to It's Always Sunny In Philadelphia but it's horribly corporately packaged. It's supposed to be a drip and a bottle of wine.

 

[editor]

Ah the IV drip thing is probably just a homage to It's Always Sunny In Philadelphia but it's horribly corporately packaged. It's supposed to be a drip and a bottle of wine.

Perhaps the syringe is in homage to the serious heroin/addiction problems suffered in and around the area.

 

[editor]

Given that Brixton seems to be mainly about copying East London trends, no doubt these will be available at Pop. And yes, it does look like something that a 6 year old would make for themselves.

At first sight, a ‘freak shake’ can be intimidating. What starts out in fairly standard fashion, by mixing milk and ice cream, soon stacks up into a pile of dairy and sugar tall enough to keep a toddler buzzing for days. An Australian import, they’re all about excess, with various sauces, cakes, crumbles and froths adding up to a structurally unstable dessert colossus.

On the evening they launched the shakes, queues were stretching down the road outside, as people got wind of them via Twitter and Instagram. The waiting time was two hours, and one couple came all the way from South Kensington, queuing for one hour and 10 minutes to get their shake.

New East London Bakery Brings Freak Shakes To London

 

[Rushy]

Tulse Hill has been cordoned off south of Brixton Water Lane Sainsburys all morning. Someone mentioned a shooting but didn't sound all that sure.

 

[beckash]

Yes, there was a shooting outside (but I expect, not connected to) the wholefood shop, last night at 7ish. Someone shot in the leg, believed to now be in a stable condition. It's cordoned off for a couple of blocks past Sainsbury's. I work inside the cordon so I'm enjoying the peace and quiet.

 

[CH1]

Tulse Hill has been cordoned off south of Brixton Water Lane Sainsburys all morning. Someone mentioned a shooting but didn't sound all that sure.

Seems to me all this random violence (if that is what it is) is worse so far this year. And with the wind-up of CPCGL the police no longer seem to feel obliged to give any explanation.

It is all a bit like Escape from New York - with the underclass revolting, or at least trying to kill each other, with a super-rich layer on top gliding by untroubled by events (because they are hard at work in the city or wherever, or tucked up in bed, or in Pop Brixton protected by "security")

It's a wonder house prices are unaffected!!

 

[EastEnder]

Given that Brixton seems to be mainly about copying East London trends, no doubt these will be available at Pop. And yes, it does look like something that a 6 year old would make for themselves.

New East London Bakery Brings Freak Shakes To London

I lack the adjectives to adequately describe how unpleasant that looks...

 

[ViolentPanda]

I caught part of a song that seemed to be called 'put it on a plate' on a R4 programme on either Fri or Sat that featured the lines:
"I don't want a cup of carrots
I don't want a pint of peas
I don't want a vintage bed pan
full of macaroni cheese"

That was a hilarious song! I caught it and thought "someone's been reading Orang Utan 's thread!"

 

[ViolentPanda]

I lack the adjectives to adequately describe how unpleasant that looks...

Allow me to offer you "diarrhoeaic".

 

[friendofdorothy]

Tulse Hill has been cordoned off south of Brixton Water Lane Sainsburys all morning. Someone mentioned a shooting but didn't sound all that sure.

It was still cordoned off when I went past an hour ago. BBC London saying that no2 bus etc, on diversion since the shooting there last night. Shit.

 

[editor]

The Junction jazz pub now serves meals in army mess tins.

 

[Harbourite]

The Junction jazz pub now serves meals in army mess tins.

there's one starter that comes on a metal plate divided into 5 - kind of thing you may find in curry houses across the country
pretty much everything else comes in a small plastic basket

no mess tins in sight. or wooden boards, hot water bottles, wheelbarrows, surgeon's instrument trays, gardeners trowels or skulls.

junction choice of crockery is more down to cost (initial and replacement) versus desire to hipsterise food presentation.

 

[teuchter]

there's one starter that comes on a metal plate divided into 5 - kind of thing you may find in curry houses across the country
pretty much everything else comes in a small plastic basket

no mess tins in sight. or wooden boards, hot water bottles, wheelbarrows, surgeon's instrument trays, gardeners trowels or skulls.

junction choice of crockery is more down to cost (initial and replacement) versus desire to hipsterise food presentation.

They do food there then? (Was trying to work this out the other day but it doesn't say on their website)

 

[Nanker Phelge]

The old north wood in norwood uses mess tins and bits of wood...

 

[deadringer]

It's a bit of fun and it makes me smile/wince!

But plates should be available on request

 

[editor]

there's one starter that comes on a metal plate divided into 5 - kind of thing you may find in curry houses across the country
pretty much everything else comes in a small plastic basket

Sorry, but that's how I saw it described online. Anyway, make it a normal plate for me please!

 

[editor]

Any idea what's happening to the old Helter Skelter/Pawn shop on Atlantic Road?

 

[editor]

I'd be happy if it stayed closed forever, but for those of you who like their fast food, bad news: the Brixton McDs is going to be closed for a couple of weeks for renovation