Brixton news, rumour and general chat - March 2016

[Lucy Fur]

They are saying they are locals being treated as incoming hipsters.
I think you should have preserved the topless cheerleaders for posterity by the way. The evidence might be required.

I did by pasting it into my reply, he can,t delete that. As others have said, i was more concerned in this instance about the lidl bulingdon club such a venture would encourage rather than any gentrification issues.

 

[CH1]

It serves decent beer, unlike the people who owned it before. It wasn't a very nice place then, and was closed for years. I go sometimes on a Sunday lunchtime and seems like a pub to me, but one man's pub is another man's proto-frat bar, apparently.

The Crown and Anchor was owned by Conway Taverns (who seem to have a habit of running places into the ground before selling to developers).

cf The Warrior (LJ Tesco Express), The Two Woococks (now an antique shop on Tulse Hill), The Canterbury (recently demolished to build a midi tower block as we have all recently noted).

Surely the Crown and Anchor as it is now is is a better outcome than most ex-Conway pubs!

 

[Angellic]

The Crown and Anchor was owned by Conway Taverns (who seem to have a habit of running places into the ground before selling to developers).

cf The Warrior (LJ Tesco Express), The Two Woococks (now an antique shop on Tulse Hill), The Canterbury (recently demolished to build a midi tower block as we have all recently noted).

Surely the Crown and Anchor as it is now is is a better outcome than most ex-Conway pubs!

it was great when it reopened and specialised in sausage and mash. It had a restaurant feel to it and quite an array of beers. The current menu has reverted to standard pub fare. When I last went it was very busy. Too busy and too loud for me but very popular.

 

[CH1]

I did by pasting it into my reply, he can,t delete that. As others have said, i was more concerned in this instance about the lidl bulingdon club such a venture would encourage rather than any gentrification issues.

In any case everyone is forgetting the possibility of a joint enterprise. This could turn out to be something more like the Shrub and Shutter where the owners get in a very pro-active tenant who starts up something completely different to what was there before.

 

[aussw9]

In response to me, I posted up a review saying it was a load of juvenile misogyny, he asked how i could know that given it hadnt opened, i refered him to his topless cheerleaders, he promptly got 20 or so of his most beautiful facebook friends to post up 5 * reviews saying it was just what london needed. So I think we have a pretty good idea now who his intended clientale will be, and I don't think many will be trotting down from Angell town. He then got the Inde to do its sob story bit by being kinda economic with the truth, and making out he was getting dragged into the gentrification wars of Brixton, poor him, when in actual fact id not mentioned that, its the nature of his theme that i find abhorrent.

I noticed there were no complaints about the 20 odd 5 star reviews for a place that is yet to open...

 

[Lucy Fur]

In any case everyone is forgetting the possibility of a joint enterprise. This could turn out to be something more like the Shrub and Shutter where the owners get in a very pro-active tenant who starts up something completely different to what was there before.

And from the Independent interview, I think that's exactly whats going on here. And here is his facebook CV to confirm the other ventures he has been involved in.

 

[aussw9]

The Crown and Anchor is just a victim of its own success... I dont got there most Friday and Saturday eve's now as its usually quite busy. But its still a darn good pub for those that like to have something other than a mega brew lager.

 

[Winot]

The Crown and Anchor is just a victim of its own success... I dont got there most Friday and Saturday eve's now as its usually quite busy. But its still a darn good pub for those that like to have something other than a mega brew lager.

Yep - really good ales and friendly staff.

Agree about too many tables, but food is where money is made and that's the way of the world.

 

[cuppa tee]

It serves decent beer, unlike the people who owned it before. It wasn't a very nice place then, and was closed for years. I go sometimes on a Sunday lunchtime and seems like a pub to me, but one man's pub is another man's proto-frat bar, apparently.

aplogies my friend if my post was misleading but I did specify Saturday night and it appears others have found it similar, maybe the night I was in was particularly bad

I haven't been there for ages. What's been happening there?

I'm probably the wrong person to ask because I don't go in on Saturday nights as a rule but the last time idid i found it full of shouty clapham types and too loud piped music

 

[editor]

aplogies my friend if my post was misleading but I did specify Saturday night and it appears others have found it similar, maybe the night I was in was particularly bad

I'm probably the wrong person to ask because I don't go in on Saturday nights as a rule but the last time idid i found it full of shouty clapham types and too loud piped music

Blimey. When I went to the launch they seemed fairly adamant that it wasn't going to be the kind of pub where music blared out all night.

 

[Nanker Phelge]

At the end of the day the frat house people represented themselves through their marketing on their fb page....if that was a misrepresentation of their business then tough shit on them for hiring in a crap marketing person...

 

[ViolentPanda]

At least stagger the posts, put em on a post-it or something

Don't you have a waste pipe to be sliding down?

 

[stockwelljonny]

There was some really hectic police action last night on Stockwell Road about 9 pm. 3 marked police SUV's, 4 x unmarked police cars and an unmarked police bike stopped a minicab and 12 police with rifles running around. Had two guys cuffed kneeling down against the bonnet with a rifle pointed at their heads for a while.. Stockwell Road was taped off for an hour or so. At least 20 police, lots of undercover. Never seen so many guns. A couple of not v good photos from my window

 

[snowy_again]

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[editor]

There was some really hectic police action last night on Stockwell Road about 9 pm. 3 marked police SUV's, 4 x unmarked police cars and an unmarked police bike stopped a minicab and 12 police with rifles running around. Had two guys cuffed kneeling down against the bonnet with a rifle pointed at their heads for a while.. Stockwell Road was taped off for an hour or so. At least 20 police, lots of undercover. Never seen so many guns. A couple of not v good photos from my window

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Bloody hell. That sounds crazy!

 

[editor]

So it's growing chain Dip & Flip in place of Kaff:

Dip & Flip Burger bar to take over the old Kaff building in Atlantic Road, Brixton

 

[discobastard]

So it's growing chain Dip & Flip in place of Kaff:

Dip & Flip Burger bar to take over the old Kaff building in Atlantic Road, Brixton

That looks bloody lovely.

 

[editor]

That looks bloody lovely.

Such meat monstrosities don't do it for me, but I met one of the guys behind the restaurant in the week and had a good chat and hopefilly offered some useful insights (probably not!). Good for him for getting in touch and asking for opinions though.

 

[discobastard]

Such meat monstrosities don't do it for me, but I met one of the guys behind the restaurant in the week and had a good chat and hopefilly offered some useful insights (probably not!). Good for him for getting in touch and asking for opinions though.

Yes, them engaging with the locals is a good thing. Hope you put them straight on the 'one veggie option' thing though. I have a lot of friends that are vegetarian and it can be a bit embarrassing going in some places and finding out all they have is a mushroom burger.

 

[Nanker Phelge]

Mushroom burgers crack me up...

"That's not a burger. it's a mushroom in a burger bun"

 

[editor]

Mushroom burgers crack me up...

"That's not a burger. it's a mushroom in a burger bun"

They're almost always hugely disappointing too.

 

[Nanker Phelge]

They're almost always hugely disappointing too.

Because they are just a grilled mushroom in a bun and not a proper mushroom burger

 

[editor]

Because they are just a grilled mushroom in a bun and not a proper mushroom burger

And often charged at the same price (or thereabouts) as a meat burger. The fuckers.

 

[leanderman]

I'd take the vegetarian burger in Bukowskis over a meat burger.

 

[aussw9]

I'm probably the wrong person to ask because I don't go in on Saturday nights as a rule but the last time idid i found it full of shouty clapham types and too loud piped music

Blimey. When I went to the launch they seemed fairly adamant that it wasn't going to be the kind of pub where music blared out all night.

I think you'll find it isnt. The exposed brickwork and a full venue can make it pretty loud.

 

[editor]

I'd take the vegetarian burger in Bukowskis over a meat burger.

I've got zero interest in visiting another fucking Shoreditch chain like Bukowskis. I'm so bored with all this east London stuff.

 

[leanderman]

I've got zero interest in visiting another fucking Shoreditch chain like Bukowskis. I'm so bored with all this east London stuff.

Shame.

It's not really a Shoreditch chain.

They opened here, and there, three weeks apart.

And, more recently, the third opened, in Soho.

The Shoreditch one is just a kiosk.

 

[editor]

The Shoreditch one is just a kiosk.

The Boxpark Shoreditch one is described by themselves as, "a fully functional burger restaurant inside a shipping container." It's got seating for 16 inside and loads more outside, which makes it a mighty big 'kiosk' in my book.

You can view the interior on Google Street View, btw.

 

[leanderman]

The Boxpark Shoreditch one is described by themselves as, "a fully functional burger restaurant inside a shipping container." It's got seating for 16 inside and loads more outside, which makes it a mighty big 'kiosk' in my book.

You can view the interior on Google Street View, btw.

It is not a Shoreditch chain.

In any case, I was merely pointing out where I think a good vegetarian burger can be obtained in Brixton.

 

[editor]

In any case, I was merely pointing out where I think a good vegetarian burger can be obtained in Brixton.

OK, but you understand why some vegetarians may be reluctant to spend their money at really meaty environments, even if there is one single tasty item on the menu?