Brixton news, rumour and general chat - Sept 2015

[organicpanda]

Is the Farmers' market on today in Station Rd?

till 2 o'clock

 

[editor]

By the former Canterbury Arms...

 

[Ms T]

I am on holiday and several people staying at our hotel grew up in Brixton/Stockwell (and Kennington) in the fifties and sixties. We've had some really interesting conversations. One guy used to work in a grocer's in Market Row, I think where Franco Manca is now. He also remembers Bon Marche, the theatre and at least two cinemas. He went swimming in the Lido when there were diving boards!

 

[peterkro]

Not Brixton but Southbank.Unexploded ww2 bomb on beachfront outside sea containers house.Area taped off from beginning of Oxo tower to Blackfriars bridge.

E2a: bit of a swizz the coppers have all fucked off and taken their miles of tape with them.Presumably the three guys in boiler suits who went to look at it decided it was a rock or something and called it off.

 

[innit]

What's up with brixton road? All the buses are on diversion down acre lane and I've been waiting a VERY LONG time for the 37.

 

[editor]

What's up with brixton road? All the buses are on diversion down acre lane and I've been waiting a VERY LONG time for the 37.

Should be OK now:

 

[editor]

Blimey that thunder was loud!

 

[leanderman]

Blimey that thunder was loud!

Seriously loud, low and close. I thought a house had collapsed or something

 

[plurker]

What's up with brixton road? All the buses are on diversion down acre lane and I've been waiting a VERY LONG time for the 37.

Woman dragged under a tipper-truck.

Woman dragged under 12-tonne tipper truck in Brixton

 

[editor]

Woman dragged under a tipper-truck.

Woman dragged under 12-tonne tipper truck in Brixton

Bloody hell. That sounds awful.

 

[djdando]

Looks like the guys from Brixton Village Grill are opening a new venture called 'Chip Shop Brixton' where Shaza Fried Chicken was opposite Dogstar. Alcohol licence being applied for also.

 

[djdando]

It won't be a soho house house though, it will be one of their restaurants, hopefully not the Cicken shop or Dirty Burgers.

I'm often in the Shoreditch or one of the Soho ones. The members seem to me a fairly innocuous bunch. The don't annoy me at all really apart from being very young and carrying on the way the young do. That annoys me a bit.

It is Dirty Burger

 

[editor]

Looks like the guys from Brixton Village Grill are opening a new venture called 'Chip Shop Brixton' where Shaza Fried Chicken was opposite Dogstar. Alcohol licence being applied for also.

I meant to post up about that before. They're going for 11am-midnight alcohol licence.

 

[David Clapson]

Great story about Brixton Soup Kitchen: Meet The Londoners Trying To Change Their City One Free Meal At A Time

I wish I'd known about it before.

 

[editor]

Great story about Brixton Soup Kitchen: Meet The Londoners Trying To Change Their City One Free Meal At A Time

I wish I'd known about it before.

All the profits from our first batches of Brixton Buzz beer went to the Soup Kitchen. In fact, it was the opening of the soup kitchen around about the same time as the Champagne bar in the Village that prompted us to do something positive rather than just moan!

 

[David Clapson]

It's great that someone is finally filling the gap left by those vegan 'Food Not Bombs' guys who were arrested for giving away meals in Windrush Square years ago.

Actually I think they may have had a snappier name but I've forgotten it.

 

[Mr Retro]

It is Dirty Burger

Boo.

 

[editor]

It's great that someone is finally filling the gap left by those vegan 'Food Not Bombs' guys who were arrested for giving away meals in Windrush Square years ago.

Actually I think they may have had a snappier name but I've forgotten it.

It was Reclaim Your Food in 2008.

How dare they give away free food!

2 Arrests at Brixton Reclaim Your Food

 

[editor]

It is Dirty Burger

Coming to us straight outta Shoreditch because Brixton needs another trendy burger chain.


That Soho House bunch are fucking huge:

• House Festival
• Eat, Drink, Nap
• Cookhouse
• House Tonic

HOUSES
United Kingdom

• High Road House | West London
• Electric House | West London
• Babington House | Somerset
• Little House Mayfair
• Shoreditch House | East London
• Soho House 40 Greek Street | London
• Soho Farmhouse | Oxfordshire
• Soho House 76 Dean Street | London

North America

• Soho House New York
• Soho Beach House | Miami
• Soho House West Hollywood
• Soho House Toronto
• Soho House Chicago

Worldwide

• Soho House Berlin
• Soho House Istanbul

HOTELS
United Kingdom

• Dean Street Townhouse | London
• Shoreditch Rooms | East London
• Babington House | Somerset
• High Road House | West London
• Soho Farmhouse | Oxfordshire

North America

• Soho House New York
• Soho Beach House | Miami
• Soho House Chicago

Worldwide

• Soho House Berlin
• Soho House Istanbul

CINEMAS

• Electric Cinema Portobello
• Electric Cinema Shoreditch
• Edible Cinema

RESTAURANTS

• The Allis Chicago
• The Allis Istanbul
• Cafe Boheme
• Cecconi’s
• Chicken Shop
• Dean Street Townhouse
• Dirty Burger
• Egg Break
• Electric Diner
• Farmshop
• Fox Bar
• Lotti’s
• High Road Brasserie
• Hoxton Grill
• Hubbard & Bell
• Pizza East
• Soho Kitchen & Bar

BEAUTY & GROOMING

• Cowshed
• Barber & Parlour
• Cheeky
• Neville

 

[DietCokeGirl]

Surely we've reached Peak Burger by now? And yet still not a decent curry in the centre of town.

 

[leanderman]

Surely we've reached Peak Burger by now?

Some hope. Boom has yet to open (will it ever?). And Hush rarely does

 

[Maharani]

Some hope. Boom has yet to open (will it ever?). And Hush rarely does

Where's Hush?

 

[friendofdorothy]

Woman dragged under a tipper-truck.

Woman dragged under 12-tonne tipper truck in Brixton

Is it my imagination or are there more serious accidents along Brixton Road than there used to be?
Any one know where to find stats of before and after all the road layout/traffic calming/pavement changes of a few years ago?

 

[leanderman]

Is it my imagination or are there more serious accidents along Brixton Road than there used to be?
Any one know where to find stats of before and after all the road layout/traffic calming/pavement changes of a few years ago?

Hopelessly congested and polluted.

A march was held yesterday calling for action, pointing out that the annual pollution limit on the road was exceeded in January.

 

[leanderman]

Where's Hush?

Former Duck Egg place, opposite Ritzy

 

[editor]

Former Duck Egg place, opposite Ritzy

It's called Shhh which is an even worse name than Hush.
They had some bloke outside on the weekend trying to entice people in with little success. It's had a good review although the extra-glowing Trip Advisor ones look well suspect.

I miss Honest Foods there.

 

[editor]

Just what Brixton needs! Another pop up - but on a roof!

Pop up restaurant planned for roof of Pope’s Road shop in run up to Christmas period

 

[friendofdorothy]

It's called Shhh which is an even worse name than Hush.
....

Sh! is the name of the womens sex shop in north London. Rubbish name for a cafe.

 

[MissL]

Just what Brixton needs! Another pop up - but on a roof!

Pop up restaurant planned for roof of Pope’s Road shop in run up to Christmas period

Sounds freezing.

 

[CH1]

Just what Brixton needs! Another pop up - but on a roof!

Pop up restaurant planned for roof of Pope’s Road shop in run up to Christmas period

I think they should erect temporary platforms on the "Catford Loop" tracks to service the premises. Only way we'll get a full service railway station back in Brixton (platforms closed 1925 I think, but I'm sure teuchter will put us right on that)