Champagne & Fromage opening in Brixton soon

[teuchter]

I assume that's an Apple laptop?

Pomme

 

[editor]

I assume that's an Apple laptop?

Of course.

 

[cesare]

Pomme

Pomme and Pommery bar.

 

[T & P]

what happened to this:

I think that illustration merits a b3ta-style image challenge. Ladies and gentlemen, start your Photoshops...

 

[Nanker Phelge]

Isn't there already a posh wine, cheese and meat shop in the other bit of the market?

 

[rutabowa]

What will it achieve? Probably nothing more than a discussion and a debate.

SUCCESS!

 

[teuchter]

This is nothing more than a symbolic gesture to say that not everyone enjoys seeing this kind of lifestyle being flaunted in an area where real social deprivation exists.

I think you're on quite wobbly ground once you start implying that this lifestyle should only be "flaunted" in certain areas.

 

[editor]

Isn't there already a posh wine, cheese and meat shop in the other bit of the market?

Yes.

 

[Chilavert]

Pomme

Touche.

 

[editor]

I think you're on quite wobbly ground once you start implying that this lifestyle should only be "flaunted" in certain areas.

I don't.

 

[Nanker Phelge]

Yes.

Thought so.

 

[editor]

 

[ska invita]

Pomme and Pommery bar.

Coke et Frottage

 

[han]

I don't think it should be flaunted anywhere. How do shops flaunt a lifestyle anyway? What an odd idea.

 

[teuchter]

I don't.

If we keep it somewhere where the poor people can't see it, it'll all be fine.

(And vice versa. Hooray for ghettoisation.)

 

[editor]

If we keep it somewhere where the poor people can't see it, it'll all be fine.

(And vice versa. Hooray for ghettoisation.)

Can't be arsed with your simplistic, twisting, argumentative-for-the-sake-of-it nonsense today, sorry.

Bye! HAND.

 

[littlebabyjesus]

It doesn't look flashy at all. It will have people sat at small tables drinking Champagne and eating cheese. The cheese will no doubt be very nice and very pricey, but it's hardly rubbing people's noses in the dirt to sit in public eating cheese.

Is it the name that's getting people's hackles raised? It is a very silly name.

 

[Monkeygrinder's Organ]

...ah, the bar is at the other end i think, thats the shop end

So there are two?

 

[editor]

'The cheese will no doubt be very nice and very pricey, but it's hardly rubbing people's noses in the dirt to sit in public eating cheese.

You forgot the champagne.

 

[han]

Is it the name that's getting people's hackles raised? It is a very silly name.

It's got to be the name. If it was called Cheesebubble, or Bubblecheese, or House of Cheese, I doubt there would've been this fuss, even if it was just cheese and champagne on the menu. It's just an incredibly wanky name which was bound to provoke scorn and anger.

 

[littlebabyjesus]

You forgot the champagne.

Ah yes. Only a complete cunt would drink Champagne in public.

Would it be different if they also sold beer?

 

[Badgers]

PICS PICS PICS

 

[rutabowa]

It doesn't look flashy at all.

the protest has never been about whether their interior designers are tasteful or not.

 

[editor]

It's got to be the name. If it was called Cheesebubble, or Bubblecheese, or House of Cheese, I doubt there would've been this fuss, even if it was just cheese and champagne on the menu. It's just an incredibly wanky name which was bound to provoke scorn and anger.

I think this post summed it up very well indeed:

Champagne and fromage is neatly symbolic. It may not be, per se, particularly worse than any of the other "mid-range luxury" establishments colonising the village, but there is a symbolism to champagne as the ultimate libation of the rich, which makes the inequality and contrast impossible to ignore for lots of people. Then the word "fromage" seems a bit pretentious, because it's French and we've a perfectly good English word for it (and easily as good british cheeses, for that matter)... The pretentiousness invites attention and then contempt, and galvanises people to protest.

I like cheese and fizzy wine, but I totally get why these guys are fair target.

 

[han]

Thanks Editor, yes, I saw that post before and think it sums the situation up perfectly.

 

[Chilavert]

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So the launch has a nautical theme, or is it the anti- launch party?

This has all got so confusing.

 

[leanderman]

I think this post summed it up very well indeed:

It's a good and intelligent comment. But I am not sure it is a balanced summing-up.

 

[T & P]

Nobody has mentioned how the various Village resident cats will react to the new arrival, but given the capitalist nature of our feline friends, I think they'll become frequent visitors

 

[han]

I think the way the protest has been publicised has been totally misguided, but I am sympathetic to the sentiment behind it.

I just think the real demons we should be focussing on are the chains and the loan sharks, these are things that really destroy communities and livelihoods, all round the country.

 

[Dexter Deadwood]

Nobody has mentioned how the various Village resident cats will react to the new arrival, but given the capitalist nature of our feline friends, I think they'll become frequent visitors

Will they become fat cats?