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Brixton news, rumours and general chat - July 2013

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Badgers said:
I am not sure it is a café :hmm: I thought it was just a few tatty tables/chairs out front for the staff? Have been past and seen several people eating what looked like packed lunches or just smoking. Nothing looking like café fayre.
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There's been a sign outside recently advertising coffee, sandwiches, etc.

As Leanderman has said elsewhere, it must be a prime development site.
 
Bloke with camera around his neck with the camera at chest level just sureptucously took a photo of an older West Indian lady at the bus stop outside Morleys. She heard the click and turned round seeing him walk away. She was angry and very upset. Not a nice thing to witness.
 
teuchter said:
Is that place any good? It looks very cheesy from the outside.
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The downstairs bar is pleasant enough in the week, but the upstairs dance floor - in the words of Morrissey - says nothing to me about my life. It seemed very, very Clapham-esque when I was there.
 
Would I be correct in thinking that this July 2010 video comes from the time when the Dex Terrace lot were really taking the piss with the neighbours?

 
It sounds like the sort of music you could hear coming from there throughout central Brixton and beyond at about 2am on Sunday night/Monday morning. They seem to be much better recently with noise levels.
 
colacubes said:
I believe it says Brixton, and they're for bike parking.
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Ah, that makes sense. I hope someone goes back and shows them how to spell Brixton, as I counted the number of holes they'd made and the N for Brixton was in completely the wrong place at 8 am this morning.
 
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Onket said:
I might have to check that one out!
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it appears to be inside the Euroheat building. Slightly erratic signage. I want photos and a full review!

E2a just read gaijingirl's posts.... I wondered for ages if it was just a staff canteen, but have seen a sign clearly trying to entice people in twice now....
 
snowy_again said:
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Manter said:
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it appears to be inside the Euroheat building. Slightly erratic signage. I want photos and a full review!

E2a just read gaijingirl's posts.... I wondered for ages if it was just a staff canteen, but have seen a sign clearly trying to entice people in twice now....
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I think it's the equivalent of a staff canteen - the Eurolink is lots of small businesses, so I imagine one small business is feeding the rest. I glanced in whilst checking out a unit - it didn't look special enough to use you didn't work there, but the introduction of tables on the grass outside is quite recent.
 
Yuppies Out aren't awfully keen on this new restaurant in Peckham or the reviewer Jay Rayner:
As alien and inaccessible to the local populace as the colonial mansions and cricket clubs first shat across India by English fascists were back in the 'good old days'.

With all of my heart, fuck the owners of this place, fuck their minted parents and fuck Jay Rayner.
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Peckham Refreshment Rooms
12-16 Blenheim Grove, London SE5 (020 7639 1106 – no bookings). Meal for two, with wine £70

This is a good restaurant where you would least expect to find it. The fact that it is here is proof both that the no-go areas for good taste are in retreat, and that in the patchwork quilt of London, poverty and surplus can sit side by side....

The cooking is upper-class British holiday-home chic: half a measure faux-rustic French, a third faux-rustic Italian, the occasional outbreak of dirty Spanish, and that hazy thing called modern British. It is big-boned food, with a sense of its own good looks. We sit at the counter, watching the bustle of the kitchen, and order Bayonne ham, which we can see hanging from the wall awaiting the slicer, the fat warming nicely.

It comes with a celeriac remoulade which is all crunch and mustard. From the specials there is a fiercely heated cast-iron bowl, bubbling with butter and garlic and spring onions and three fat king prawns. We add a good sprinkle of salt, eat the prawns, suck their heads and then mop furiously with sourdough bread.
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http://www.guardian.co.uk/lifeandstyle/2013/jul/07/peckham-refreshment-rooms-jay-rayner
 
cuppa tee said:
A couple of bits of supermarket tittle tattle gleaned from the Lambeth licensing website.
Looks like Stockwell is losing an Iceland and getting a sainsburys .......http://www.lambeth.gov.uk/NR/rdonly...-8EED-FFB8D6E953F0/0/Application_Prem1668.pdf .......maybe in response to the new lidl
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They are presumably opening in Stockwell partly as a replacement for the Nine Elms shop which is going to be knocked down and redeveloped - http://www.sainsburys-nineelms.co.uk/ - temporarily as well they are going to redevelop the petrol station as a shop but i think that will only be Sainsburys Local size
 
In other news, the newish security at the lido last weekend were absolutely rubbish.

Firstly at 10.00 am they moved the 100 person queue from perpendicular to the entrance to make it snake around the outside wall. Having waited in the sun for 30 mins most people had lost their patience and bolted to the wall, leaving the families with prams at the front of the queue forced to the back as they couldn't hurdle the walls of the car park. Security did nothing.

Secondly despite 'policing' the queue they watched and didn't stop groups of 10 or so joining their mates and jumping. Security did nothing.

Finally in a perfect coup de grace they selectively stopped certain groups of people drinking alcohol whilst carefully ignoring people swigging brandy from the bottle and letting their mates in through the fire escape; mostly I expect cos threatening to eject quiet Brazilians drinking rose from plastic glasses is an easier win than challenging apparently tougher tattooed gym frequenters who are openly drinking under their noses.

Frankly I don't care about booze at the lido as long as you're not smashing glass bottles and you're not swimming pissed and endangering other people.

It was the busiest I've seen the lido in a few years, and aside from the Lido Cafe being shite as usual, everyone was enjoying themselves and getting along despite it being cheek by jowl, until the busybodies decided to selectively throw their weight about.

Pfft. I hope they manage better this weekend with the combination of hotter weather and the country show.
 
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