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Champagne & Fromage opening in Brixton soon

littlebabyjesus said:
You're confusing wanting to give people pleasure with trying to impress people. I might buy an expensive bit of cheese and offer it to someone to try before serving them an ox cheek stew made for about the same price as the cheese cost. It's not about impressing people - it's about sharing things you like with them because they might like them too.
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you're getting confused because i was replying to someone else and not to you.
 
Wy is Cannon and Cannon aceptable if Champagne and Fromage isn't?

The cheese in Cannon and Cannon is pricey, as is the Brixton Beer they sell in there, and the chorizo, and air dried ham, and the brownies aren't cheap either.
 
Pickman's model said:
if you're entertaining then you might want to get 250g of yarg, which at waitrose would set you back £4.50. but you can't stop there because showing people a plate with a lump of cheese on - and not a particularly large lump either - won't impress them much. so you go perhaps for an unusual cheese. perhaps some waitrose vacherin du haut-doubs aop, retailing at a mere £6.79 (down from £8.49) for 350g. but you can't leave it there either as you need to have a couple more lumps. not to mention some bread, some wine and some pickles or chutney. and a few scotch eggs to scatter round the place. before you know it you won't get change out of a £50 note.
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Maybe you should host a bookgroup?. :cool: It's been a while since you've been.
 
ska invita said:
amused :)

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that is lovely. needs to sort out the pocket square though.

lovely stitching.
 
littlebabyjesus said:
I think it's mostly because C and F has a silly name.
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I think it's partly that at least, and also that you'd have to try really hard to portray this place as anything but very upmarket. The question has been asked several times on the thread though as if everything else was fine and then people have suddenly gone nuts just because of this place, when actually the difference is between people resenting the changes, and people resenting the changes enough to wander down there and make a little noise for a bit. Not really a huge leap.
 
littlebabyjesus said:
I think it's mostly because C and F has a silly name.
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Do you know, I actually said that in my post, and then edited it out.

Fromage and Champagne is ridiculously Sloaney, isn't it. It will no doubt be shortened to From-an-Champ by the regulars who flock over Chelsea Bridge to access it.
 
story said:
Do you know, I actually said that in my post, and then edited it out.

Fromage and Champagne is ridiculously Sloaney, isn't it. It will no doubt be shortened to From-an-Champ by the regulars who flock over Chelsea Bridge to access it.
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Kind of thing that makes you wonder how anyone would think it was a good idea. Mind you I thought that about pret-a-manger when they started, and now everyone just calls it pret and it kind of seems normal.

I keep thinking of frottage when I see this name.
 
story said:
Do you know, I actually said that in my post, and then edited it out.

Fromage and Champagne is ridiculously Sloaney, isn't it. It will no doubt be shortened to From-an-Champ by the regulars who flock over Chelsea Bridge to access it.
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I think those north of Chelsea bridge are still petrified of Brixton. They're scared of Clapham FFS.

Actually, come to think of it, I'm scared of Clapham
 
Mind you, it might be awfully nice for those well heeled types slurping champagne to watch the poor locals shuffling by to shop in what's left of their market. Give it a year or two and they'll just probably have to shuffle out of the market altogether, because it'll all be taken over by more of the same. Huzzah! Afternoon tea for the price of a weekly shopping spend anyone?
 
littlebabyjesus said:
Kind of thing that makes you wonder how anyone would think it was a good idea. Mind you I thought that about pret-a-manger when they started, and now everyone just calls it pret and it kind of seems normal.
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good point.

Though Champagne + Fromage 'Let's bubble' is in a league of its own in terms of dumb names...
 
story said:
I think Tique Booty is pretty fucking stupid myself. I fucking hate that shop, and everyone involved with it. Proper hate it.
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One of the guys who runs it really thinks he is down with proper real Brixton and 'all the Jamaicans and locals and real Brixton people shop there' yadda yadda yadda.
 
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