Camberwell news and chitter-chatter

[Onket]

The Stormbird pub has finally got its act together with a sign and a website: http://thestormbirdpub.co.uk/

Definitely up for visiting this place soon.

The next time I am around Camberwell with time for a pint, I will be trying this pub out.

 

[Onket]

A street in Camberwell is going to be featured on that telly programme about London streets, next week.

Here it is- http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b01jt9zh

The one about Deptford High Street was very good a couple of days ago.

 

[Onket]

Live (free) music on Saturdays at the bandstand in Ruskin Park.

http://www.lambeth.gov.uk/Services/...ces/EventsInParks/EventsLambethBandstands.htm

The Lambeth website doesn't seem to be up to date though, as the posters around the park are listing dates up to and including September.

 

[Maggot]

Live (free) music on Saturdays at the bandstand in Ruskin Park.

http://www.lambeth.gov.uk/Services/...ces/EventsInParks/EventsLambethBandstands.htm

The Lambeth website doesn't seem to be up to date though, as the posters around the park are listing dates up to and including September.

Already mentioned one of the gigs in post 658.

 

[Shippou-Sensei]

Unless this has changed drastically in the last year, the Camberwell Morri's ale section is much better than brixton tesco and other near by supermarkets

the cider rage is great too. i pick up an old rosie or two when i go passed on friday

 

[teuchter]

The restoration of the existing Denmark Hill station footbridge is done now. I think they've done an alright job.

It remains to be seen what kind of a monster the new bridge will be.

 

[George & Bill]

the cider rage is great too. i pick up an old rosie or two when i go passed on friday

Cider rage may be great for you, but probably isn't so fun for whoever's on the other end of it

 

[Shippou-Sensei]

my ragepillow

 

[Thimble Queen]

Khan's is opening up a new branch on Camberwell Church St. You never have to go to Safa again!

It's right opposite Cinnamon though, hope they don't suffer too badly from the competition.

 

[George & Bill]

Khan's 'colour-free cuisine' - what's that then? Greyscale food?

 

[Onket]

Have a guess.

 

[George & Bill]

This point being, not that one cannot guess what it's supposed to mean, but that it is a somewhat arcane and wierdly off-putting strap-line for a resaurant.

 

[Orang Utan]

it is a bit odd that they seem to think this is a selling point

 

[Crispy]

It does rather imply that their food is otherwise stuffed full of artificial flavours and preservatives

 

[Badgers]

I don't like curry that glows red. It is folly

 

[George & Bill]

I don't like curry that glows red. It is folly

I don't like eating in places that are infested with vermin, buy I also wouldn't go into somehwhere than proclaimed 'cockroach amd rat-free restaurant'.

 

[Badgers]

I don't like eating in places that are infested with vermin, buy I also wouldn't go into somehwhere than proclaimed 'cockroach amd rat-free restaurant'.

Different issue. I dont like being stabbed but dont look for the "stab free" sign outside a pub.

 

[George & Bill]

So, exacly the same principle - don't explicitly state the absense of various undesirable attributes right under the name of your establishment, because that a) makes people think of them and puts them off their food, and b) implies that the place's greatest achievement is not to actively do anything right, but merely to avoid doing something wrong.

 

[Badgers]

So, exacly the same principle - don't explicitly state the absense of various undesirable attributes right under the name of your establishment, because that a) makes people think of them and puts them off their food, and b) implies that the place's greatest achievement is not to actively do anything right, but merely to avoid doing something wrong.

Dont go there then you picky twat

 

[George & Bill]

It's a bit like when you used to see hotels that said in large letters 'hot running water' - certainly that is a good thing, but the fact that it's considered a key selling point is not so great.

 

[Badgers]

Yes yes....

 

[George & Bill]

Dont go there then you picky twat

Sure, everything else being equal I probably wont, and having watched restaurants around Camberwell and seen how much they have to do right to get off the ground, I'd guess most others wont either.

 

[teuchter]

It doesn't mean some kind of apartheid system, then?

 

[Orang Utan]

No DSWs

 

[Onket]

don't explicitly state the absense of various undesirable attributes right under the name of your establishment, because that a) makes people think of them and puts them off their food, and b) implies that the place's greatest achievement is not to actively do anything right, but merely to avoid doing something wrong.

Eh?

If most other places dose up their food with colouring, it makes perfect sense to state that you don't do it at your place.

point a- No, it would make you think of undesireable colouring in food sold by other outlets.

point b- No, it doesn't say it's greatest achievement is not putting colouring in it's food.

 

[Maggot]

So, exacly the same principle - don't explicitly state the absense of various undesirable attributes right under the name of your establishment, because that a) makes people think of them and puts them off their food, and b) implies that the place's greatest achievement is not to actively do anything right, but merely to avoid doing something wrong.

Really? Why do think so many food manufacturers delare their products are additive-free, sugar-free, colouring free, etc?

 

[Orang Utan]

What's odd is that it only mentions colour, not any of the other likely things

 

[George & Bill]

Eh?

If most other places dose up their food with colouring, it makes perfect sense to state that you don't do it at your place.

point a- No, it would make you think of undesireable colouring in food sold by other outlets.

point b- No, it doesn't say it's greatest achievement is not putting colouring in it's food.

Well, it's a strapline - it's the writing right underneath the name of the restaurant, or at least it was when I was last there a couple of weeks ago. That sort of suggests to me that it IS the single most important message that whoever made the sign wanted to convey.

 

[Onket]

Ok.

 

[Badgers]

Have you eaten in the Khan's on Brixton Water Lane before slowjoe?