lang rabbie
Je ne regrette les gazebos
The vinyl is starting to look grubby already - they need a window cleaner to wash it down!
Costa coffee opening at the old Homelook 460 Brixton Road, SW9
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editor
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I took a look inside. Veh meh.
http://www.urban75.org/blog/a-look-inside-the-new-costa-coffee-brixton-road-brixton-sw9/
http://www.urban75.org/blog/a-look-inside-the-new-costa-coffee-brixton-road-brixton-sw9/
I popped in on the weekend. seems fine to me.
i like federation but it can get pretty manic in there given how much time they take over making their coffee... costa was very chilled in comparison. obv the quality of the actual coffee was nowhere near as good, but the ambience was much more suited to an olympic sized hangover.
i like federation but it can get pretty manic in there given how much time they take over making their coffee... costa was very chilled in comparison. obv the quality of the actual coffee was nowhere near as good, but the ambience was much more suited to an olympic sized hangover.
twistedAM
Left Of The Dial
Just had a great double macchiato for £1.10 admittedly in the Palace but if I had wanted to I could have paid £1.90 for a single a few doors down in a place that purports all this hand-crafted speciality bobbins.
Some coffee prices are just stupid.
5t3IIa
Registered User
I noticed the lack of windows while going past on the 133 yesterday. Why aren't there any? I mean; there's not exactly A View but still - people watching!!
5t3IIa
Registered User
What's near the window then? Seats, surely?
clandestino
no llevar papel
I walked past this today. The open door makes it clear that it's open, and I guess they're happy enough with that. The point of the frontage though, I reckon, isn't to invite Brixton in, but to keep Brixton out - so it's almost like a gated cafe, like Brixton Village. You go into Costa to escape Brixton. Having a see through window would destroy that.
May sound like lunatic logic, but why else have a front like that?
May sound like lunatic logic, but why else have a front like that?
clandestino
no llevar papel
Also I imagine some bright spark at head office said: "You know if we don't have windows then they can't be smashed during the next riot. Think ahead, people, think ahead..."
editor
hiraethified
That's more my suspicion, ridiculous though it seems.
Minnie_the_Minx
someinenhhanding menbag and me ah bollox
5t3IIa
Registered User
That's stupid but I supposed the view directly across the road is the boarded up Footlocker...?
Minnie_the_Minx
someinenhhanding menbag and me ah bollox
Nah, it's the mobile phone shops
5t3IIa
Registered User
Wait - didn't the previous shops have windows?
quimcunx
imprimeo, lamino, distribuo
No.
Crispy
The following psytrance is baṉned: All
Display cases, yes. The shop front was a couple of feet in front of the wall.
clandestino
no llevar papel
I don't think whatever the frontage is made of at the moment is super sturdy, so nice theory but it would be a solid brick wall if that were the case. As you can see from Ed's pic above, it's not.
London_Calling
Pleasant and unpatronising
The first floor had (4) conventional windows at some point, though?
Crispy
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Do you mean where it says "Qualified Opticians" "Diamond Merchants" and so on?
I very much doubt it.
ETA: I really should be working
London_Calling
Pleasant and unpatronising
Yep,it was an opinion derived from the ballustrade (two with, two without), I suppose... but then I don't know a lot...
Bit noisy for residential on the first floor, perhaps
Bit noisy for residential on the first floor, perhaps
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