Champagne & Fromage opening in Brixton soon

[TruXta]

Good luck to 'em.

Restaurants should be judged on the quality of their food & service, not by who you think it will appeal to.

Fuck off.

 

[pissflaps]

i thought so.

 

[Chilavert]

If it's in CV it's bloody well trendy.

Really?

 

[TruXta]

Really?

Yeah, really.

 

[Manter]

covent garden isn't trendy- it's touristy and a bit crap

 

[TruXta]

Really?

Note, it should've read CG for Covent Garden.

 

[pissflaps]

bang goes that argument.

 

[TruXta]

covent garden isn't trendy- it's touristy and a bit crap

Tell that to the heaps of people who've opened chi-chi cafes, trendy burger joints, super-expensive clothes outlets etc in the area. Touristy and trendy can coincide you know.

 

[editor]

I'm just saddened that every time an expensive, upmarket west end/corporate/chain operator moves into Granville Arcade, a little bit of what made Brixton unique and special vanishes forever.

I was just talking to one of the traders and he said that many of the traditional stalls in there are living in fear of the next rent rises. Most likely, they'll be priced out.

 

[Badgers]

Harrods is not posh. It is just expensive and touristy.

 

[Winot]

covent garden isn't trendy- it's touristy and a bit crap

But it's "London's Theatreland" !

 

[Manter]

Tell that to the heaps of people who've opened chi-chi cafes, trendy burger joints, super-expensive clothes outlets etc in the area. Touristy and trendy can coincide you know.

touristy and expensive can co-incide. Expensive and trendy can co-incide. In my world (which is, tbf, a pretty special place) touristy and trendy are diametric opposites

 

[Manter]

But it's "London's Theatreland" !

My point made beautifully for me

 

[Winot]

Harrods is not posh. It is just expensive and touristy.

Are we getting a Harrods now? Gentrification gone mad.

 

[pissflaps]

some restaurants in CG are fucking amazing.

http://www.polpo.co.uk/

 

[rutabowa]

re: covent garden, whilst i wouldn't call the area itself trendy, there is no doubt the highest concentration of trendy eating places there in all of london.

 

[pissflaps]

quite possibly. a lot of them are pretty good - a few not so good.

 

[Manter]

re: covent garden, whilst i wouldn't call the area itself trendy, there is no doubt the highest concentration of trendy eating places there in all of london.

soho has a higher concentration IMO. (and some in CG can be declared as soho )

 

[Manter]

some restaurants in CG are fucking amazing.

http://www.polpo.co.uk/

yeah, you got me there

 

[editor]

I just went past it now but can't work out if Faiz have already moved or if this is the site of the forthcoming champers bar.



Can anyone confirm?

 

[Winot]

some restaurants in CG are fucking amazing.

http://www.polpo.co.uk/

It's good but Bocca di Lupo is better (though not as trendy).

 

[TruXta]

So we're agreeing that Covent Garden has a lot of trendy chi-chi eateries and shops then? Good.

 

[Manter]

I just went past it now but can't work out if Faiz have already moved or if this is the site of the forthcoming champers bar.

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Can anyone confirm?

I think the champers place is next to Honest (ie the place opposite)- Faiz are storing some stuff in there at the mo, but I saw a couple of the owners of the newer stalls talking to a bloke with a clipboard in the entrance of it, and it looked like stuff was being stripped out

 

[Manter]

So we're agreeing that Covent Garden has a lot of trendy chi-chi eateries and shops then? Good.

nope, not shops. Eateries, and I think most of them count as Soho.

 

[editor]

I think the champers place is next to Honest (ie the place opposite)- Faiz are storing some stuff in there at the mo, but I saw a couple of the owners of the newer stalls talking to a bloke with a clipboard in the entrance of it, and it looked like stuff was being stripped out

The place in the picture is more or less directly opposite Honest so I'm a bit confused!

 

[Winot]

So we're agreeing that Covent Garden has a lot of trendy chi-chi eateries and shops then? Good.

Bocca di Lupo is in Soho.

 

[TruXta]

nope, not shops. Eateries, and I think most of them count as Soho.

Oh FFS. We could do this all day - is it Soho, Covent Garden, West End? FWIW the shop this thread relates to is most certainly not based in Soho.

 

[Manter]

The place in the picture is more or less directly opposite Honest so I'm a bit confused!

sorry- the place opposite that pic, next to honest

<<heat addled brain>>

 

[rutabowa]

So we're agreeing that Covent Garden has a lot of trendy chi-chi eateries and shops then? Good.

yes. i know covent garden very well. it is where trendy places open up after they have done their first local place/market stall and before they expand into a chain.

 

[editor]

sorry- the place opposite that pic, next to honest

<<heat addled brain>>

Right. So Faiz have already moved and this is their new premises?

*mind jumbled up due to heat