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Champagne & Fromage opening in Brixton soon

Rushy said:
A friend wanted to meet there a few months ago - Charlotte Street. The queue must have been 40 or 50 long. Never saw inside.

I don't get all this queuing for for food in a restaurant. Drove past a similar queue waiting for breakfast at The Breakfast Club the other day. Why!?
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Agreed, but maybe we're just old. Have waited for excellent food eg Anchor & Hope in the Cut, but at the bar. Honest Burgers' queue app is a good solution.
 
This is a blessing in disguise. Champagne & Fromage has had priceless coverage (be it good or bad) across national newspapers that it would otherwise of not had. Their clientele will not care for the frustrations voiced by the 'Yuppies Out' gang one bit
 
Winot said:
Agreed, but maybe we're just old. Have waited for excellent food eg Anchor & Hope in the Cut, but at the bar. Honest Burgers' queue app is a good solution.
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Honest Burgers have a queue app?!
 
Winot said:
Agreed, but maybe we're just old. Have waited for excellent food eg Anchor & Hope in the Cut, but at the bar. Honest Burgers' queue app is a good solution.
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Er, less of that please granddad.:D

I've never been one for queues. By the time I got in anywhere I'd be too pissed off. I always liked that about going out in Brixton.

Walked past the queue to Electric Social last Friday. That must have been more than 150!
 
littlebabyjesus said:
And this is the nub of the problem and the thing to protest against. Greenwich shopping centre was ruined a few years ago by a spike in rents that drove out many of the smaller businesses. Who owns the shopping centre in Brixton, and what criteria are used to decide the rents?
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The land owners have it all wrapped up. Commercial leases usually have upward only rent reviews. The lease holder is at the end of a long chain of privilege that you could argue goes way back to William the Conquer. Bloody French.
 
han said:
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.
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There's lots of other battles to be had - and perhaps some of the people attending this protest are every bit as involved in some of them too - but that shouldn't be used as a stick to beat down or belittle this action (which some people have done, including that idiot from the Standard)
 
T & P said:
Actually, on a serious note Ed, this is a good point. I susppose Brixton Buzz does not claim to be impartial and has no obligation to be so, but for the sake of balance perhaps it wouldn't be a bad thing if you were to add a post offering the opposing view...
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There's a comment box below the article and people are free to add any comments they like (and many have added opposing views to the previous post).

Besides, it's not like there's a shortage of media outlets offering their version of a 'balanced' view.
 
Nedrop said:
This is a blessing in disguise. Champagne & Fromage has had priceless coverage (be it good or bad) across national newspapers that it would otherwise of not had. Their clientele will not care for the frustrations voiced by the 'Yuppies Out' gang one bit
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What national newspapers?
 
rutabowa said:
Where do you fit into this tragic comedy that you describe?
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I don't really fit into it at all to be honest. I am the son of a Irish dinner lady and a Jamaican mechanic from Croydon (which I suppose one could argue is in Surrey ;)), who works in a local authority social services department (not Lambeth) and who has had a proper job since I was 16 and escaped to Brixton for over 10 years. I am about the least arty person I know and I don't know any venture capitalists.
 
Manter said:
like those vibrating pager things you used to get given in places like TGI Fridays? But a cool version...

Good idea
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And, in the likely event of you tiring of the wait, there is a button on the app to 'EXIT QUEUE'
 
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bosie said:
I don't really fit into it at all to be honest. I am the son of a Irish dinner lady and a Jamaican mechanic from Croydon (which I suppose one could argue is in Surrey ;)), who works in a local authority social services department (not Lambeth) and who has had a proper job since I was 16 and escaped to Brixton for over 10 years. I am about the least arty person I know and I don't know any venture capitalists.
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It was a pretty neat summing up of gentrification that you did (in yr first post), but where do you get yr information from? i mean, what you said is obviously the received wisdom of what is going on, the cliche, but have you first-hand experience that it actually is what is going on? You might well do i dunno... i don't necessarily disagree. it just sounded a bit too neat.
 
fredfelt said:
The land owners have it all wrapped up. Commercial leases usually have upward only rent reviews. The lease holder is at the end of a long chain of privilege that you could argue goes way back to William the Conquer. Bloody French.
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Mate of mine used to work at a reptile shop in Camden. The shop owner died recently and he toyed with the idea of trying to take it over. £30k a year rent - he worked it out that he might just make it work. Except that was the old rent. The solicitor next door, which owns the building is now asking for £70k a year - and it's a small place. No chance of running a different niche-interest place on that.
 
littlebabyjesus said:
Mate of mine used to work at a reptile shop in Camden. The shop owner died recently and he toyed with the idea of trying to take it over. £30k a year rent - he worked it out that he might just make it work. Except that was the old rent. The solicitor next door, which owns the building is now asking for £70k a year - and it's a small place. No chance of running a different niche-interest place on that.
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It's crazy

F+C apparently paid £50,000 to get into Brixton Village.

And I was told that was a one-off premium, not the lease.

Crazy, if true.
 
rutabowa said:
It was a pretty neat summing up of gentrification that you did (in yr first post), but where do you get yr information from? i mean, what you said is obviously the received wisdom of what is going on, the cliche, but have you first-hand experience that it actually is what is going on? You might well do i dunno... i don't necessarily disagree. it just sounded a bit too neat.
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I am just an opinionated grump. Nothing to back it up per se and I could be wrong but if you look at the young 'arty' people - the people who purport to be skint artists and the slightly older people who are opening all of the trendy foodie/clothes places (there's always a bit of a bio about them on their websites/blogs/twitter pages/eveningn standard articles) you will see that they are effectively the same people, just a few years older. Same names, grew up in the same home counties, went to the same art colleges etc etc. That's what I pick up anyway.
 
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