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Brixton news, rumour and general chat - June 2014

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editor said:
I'm not trying to pick an argument either and I'm not only interested in 'vibrant edgy alternative Brixton,' but it's genuinely how I feel about the place. Every time I've been there (and that's quite a few times over the years), I've never much warmed to the place.

Given its location in a fairly secluded square away from the hubbub of Brixton and the fact that its clientèle has always been overwhelmingly white, it does feel like it's a pub from Clapham or somewhere. I'm glad the pub exists, mind - I'd certainly get involved in any fight to save the place if it came under threat - and I've no complaints about the beer or the staff, but it's just not a pub I particularly want to spend my nights in. Each to their own, eh?
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I get what you're saying about each to their own and I would not tell you that you should particularly like it. The only thing I don't agree with is the implication that it is somehow "not of Brixton". It's very much a living breathing organic piece of Brixton and has always been full of Brixton people who like that kind of pub even if it for some it is only from time to time or for a nice change. As alternative as we may be, such Brixtonites have always existed!
Anyway - I'm glad you visited :)
 
Badgers said:
The squirrel is dead.
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They'll be coming to get you
 
editor said:
The sale hasn't gone through yet and the owner asked me not to post up anything about who looks to be buying it. I was thinking that it would have made an absolutely perfect venue for the Ovalhouse!
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It is absolutely a building and site we would have looked at had the timing been right, a partnership deal of some kind possible and if we had known about it. I am sad it is closing as a laundry, though, and sad we won't be having them opposite.
 
zenie said:
Trinity last night...great friends, great staff, shittest burger in Brixton. Avoid.

Youngs are getting am email once I've had a coffee :)
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Great pub, but very average food. I'm happy to eat in there if I'm already there, but I would never suggest people go there for the food
 
I should probably qualify that and say that I only actually remember the burger being poor, not even sure I've tried anything else in there now that I think about it. Hmmm, maybe my diet needs a rethink
 
Manter said:
the coffee/bar place at the top of Brixton Road has kept the old signage, so fingers crossed it is now a 'thing'
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Well, it's what they've done in Brooklyn and other hipster places in the US for years, so I wouldn't be surprised to see that being copied too.
 
leanderman said:
What I hate about Honest burgers is that they have ruined forever the simple pleasure of a pub burger
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Happy to say that's not a problem I seem to have suffered. Given the immense press hype about their burgers and people frothing on and on about their chips, I have to say that I was somewhat underwhelmed by the fare at Honest.

It was good but not that amazing*.

*yes, I did only try the veggie options but my friend scoffed everything that was offered and she wasn't exactly blown away either
 
editor said:
Happy to say that's not a problem I seem to have suffered. Given the immense press hype about their burgers and people frothing on and on about their chips, I have to say that I was somewhat underwhelmed by the fare at Honest.

It was good but not that amazing*.

*yes, I did only try the veggie options but my friend scoffed everything that was offered and she wasn't exactly blown away either
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I think they 're good, but not outstandingly amazing ruined me for all other ground beef products good.
 
editor said:
I'm not trying to pick an argument either and I'm not only interested in 'vibrant edgy alternative Brixton,' but it's genuinely how I feel about the place. Every time I've been there (and that's quite a few times over the years), I've never much warmed to the place.

Given its location in a fairly secluded square away from the hubbub of Brixton and the fact that its clientèle has always been overwhelmingly white, it does feel like it's a pub from Clapham or somewhere. I'm glad the pub exists, mind - I'd certainly get involved in any fight to save the place if it came under threat - and I've no complaints about the beer or the staff, but it's just not a pub I particularly want to spend my nights in. Each to their own, eh?
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I sometimes struggle with this thing about places or events being put down for having a predominantly white clientele. People go where they want, and in Brixton you will see Eritrean, Algerian, Caribbean, Portugese, et al predominantly frequented by people from those communities. Its like a kind of inverted racism. Brixton has always had a large white population, why should we feel bad that some pubs/eateries are more white? I probably haven't expressed it very well, but I know what I mean! I've done it myself very often, but am increasingly beginning to feel that its wrong.
 
shygirl said:
I sometimes struggle with this thing about places or events being put down for having a predominantly white clientele.
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I wasn't 'putting it down' for the ethnic make up of its clientèle, but was just observing that it did make it a bit unusual for the area - and as such made me more mindful of some of the pubs further up the road.

Of course that's all changed now anyway, what with the area gentrifying/ homogenising at a rate of knots.
 
There is Morris dancing outside the Trinity this evening. I have taken some photos but don't know how to display them here...
 
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