Costa coffee opening at the old Homelook 460 Brixton Road, SW9

[editor]

I think the increased popularity of coffee shops has a bit to do with the growth of freelancers and people able to work at home. If I'm stuck on a writing job, I often go out for a coffee and carry on working in the cafe.

 

[magneze]

Cup cake shops, Scotch Egg shops, pie shops?

You can never have enough pie shops. Fact.

 

[Minnie_the_Minx]

You can never have enough pie shops. Fact.

Depends how much the pies cost!

 

[kyser_soze]

It's probably worth pointing out that Britain used to have loads of coffee houses, and drink more coffee, than tea, so this is a kind of return to an old pattern of consumption.

 

[Onket]

You can never have enough pie shops. Fact.

Correct.

A week or so was British Pie Week, too- http://www.britishpieweek.co.uk/

 

[editor]

Waits for "Go back to Vauxhall. Artfag coffee house. Bring back Homelook" graffiti to be scrawled inside the cafe's toilet.

*look suspiciously at Onket when it appears

 

[Onket]

I honestly wasn't the person who did that. I just took a photo!

 

[TruXta]

Sure you did. Sure.

 

[wtfftw]

Didn't coffee shops used to be revolutionary hubs? You know, like back in history wot i never studied.

 

[Onket]

For the record-

Not even my handwriting.

 

[wtfftw]

The Goose?

 

[Onket]

Yes.

And is that a willy at the bottom of the pic?

 

[wtfftw]

I hope not. Doesn't look good.

 

[wtfftw]

Goose did nice veggie burgers I spose.

 

[miss minnie]

Yes.

And is that a willy at the bottom of the pic?

Its a USB flash stick no doubt filled with arty-faggy mp3s.

 

[Onket]

More proof- Doesn't look like my willy or my USB flash stick.

 

[magneze]

Looks like a fountain pen.

 

[Onket]

Doesn't look like my fountain pen either.

 

[timmu]

Well I'll still go to opus or goodbench, but it has to be better than another fried chicken shop...

 

[fortyplus]

Every time I've had a costa coffee recently (mostly from motorway services) it has been like dishwater, only more bitter and less aromatic.

 

[ash]

Interesting that Coffee shops used to be popular business meeting places (Samuel Pepys era). There were loads of deals struck and businesses started in the many coffee shops in London. It seems (as has already been mentioned) that we have done a full circle with all the freelancers working from and having meetings, interviews etc in coffee shops.

 

[bi0boy]

Every time I've had a costa coffee recently (mostly from motorway services) it has been like dishwater, only more bitter and less aromatic.

Does it taste like a relentless drive to maximise shareholder profits by reducing costs?

 

[IC3D]

Big New Costa coming to Turnpike Lane too and they have stripped it back to the brickwork, I wonder when they'll plaster them up again. Not to bothered as it was a Burger King and Wood Green is basically a soulless dump.

 

[editor]

It's definitely opening soon as Costa.

http://www.urban75.org/blog/costa-coffee-gets-ready-to-open-in-brixton/

 

[TruXta]

Oh cock...

 

[Badgers]

I think the increased popularity of coffee shops has a bit to do with the growth of freelancers and people able to work at home. If I'm stuck on a writing job, I often go out for a coffee and carry on working in the cafe.

So by reporting the problem you have effectively become the problem?

 

[editor]

So by reporting the problem you have effectively become the problem?

Not if I'm only going to small independent coffee shops, no.

 

[Badgers]

Not if I'm only going to small independent coffee shops, no.

I see

Shame to see Costa arrive (personally) but not that surprising.

 

[Chilavert]

Yes! Another coffee shop.

 

[Onket]

Better than a boarded up bird poo collector.