Hackney chitter-chatter &tc

[Miss-Shelf]

hackney's ace - where are you going?

 

[Stigmata]

Near London Fields

 

[sherriff rosco]

good.

i had many nights of wierdness at chats palace, a particularly memorable evening that i vaguely remember was seeing spasm on psilocybins, tottenham ak47's, super-8 movies and angry naxi slurs. well cool

I squatted next door for 7 years. Saw a fair few " odd" nights myself!

 

[Diamond]

Could be moving into a room in Hackney Central overlooking Mare Street.

Does it live up to its name?

Also, generally, is Hackney Central a good/fun place etc...

 

[Miss-Shelf]

some good cheap restaurants/cafe - esp turkish/vietnamese

its got a train station

and the narrow way shops - its not central in the way that brixton has a centre strangely

 

[Paulie Tandoori]

mare street always feels a bit souless to me. but like you say, well connected transport-wise and some alright cheap grub.

 

[rutabowa]

good takeaways... good for food and late night beer shopping... will be a bit noisy all through the night with traffic etc.

 

[lighterthief]

Near to London Fields, if that's your bag.

 

[pootle]

some alright cheap grub.

Had a very nice feed at Green Papaya on Mare Street on Sunday night!

 

[Diamond]

Doesn't seem to be a great amount of enthusiasm for hackney central.

Just to clarify - is Mare Street pretty noisy at night?

(just because it seemed so in the middle of the day when there were many, many buses)

 

[braindancer]

Doesn't seem to be a great amount of enthusiasm for hackney central.

Just to clarify - is Mare Street pretty noisy at night?

(just because it seemed so in the middle of the day when there were many, many buses)

Yep - if you're after the quiet life then living on Mare Street itself is not a wise choice...

 

[rutabowa]

Doesn't seem to be a great amount of enthusiasm for hackney central.

Just to clarify - is Mare Street pretty noisy at night?

(just because it seemed so in the middle of the day when there were many, many buses)

yes it's noisy all night. i like it a lot there because it has all the shops and transport right nearby, but no trendy places to go out so you don't get the london fields crowd etc there, it is just a neighborhood area. if you wanted a bit more quiet you could head away from mare street down graham road.

 

[blossie33]

I would have thought the Bethnal Green end of Mare Street was quieter but maybe not?

 

[rutabowa]

at bethnal green it's not mare street any more, it's cambridge heath road... i was just talking about the bit of mare street near hackney central and the town hall though anyway.

 

[blossie33]

I meant on the Hackney side of the canal, it's still Mare Street there.

 

[Stigmata]

Yeah that's pretty quiet

 

[marty21]

Chatsworth road will soon be having a regular Sunday street market, it might have started today (but I'm not in London atm) I'm hoping that it doesn't become like broadway market.

 

[rutabowa]

the people doing it do seem pretty keen on not letting it get like that and making it an affordable market for everyone rather than a hipster market. i guess will see what happens though.

 

[marty21]

the people doing it do seem pretty keen on not letting it get like that and making it an affordable market for everyone rather than a hipster market. i guess will see what happens though.

let's hope so, it's still a good place to shop atm - not full of broadway market cunts

 

[Stigmata]

the people doing it do seem pretty keen on not letting it get like that and making it an affordable market for everyone rather than a hipster market. i guess will see what happens though.

I've been looking for a good place to buy fish, I hope this market will have a stall.

 

[Paulie Tandoori]

I've been looking for a good place to buy fish, I hope this market will have a stall.

fish mongers on the high st always seems to be busy

 

[Nanker Phelge]

I have now left hackney after living here for 19 years

that is all - I shall have to move to the appropriate chitter chatter now

of course, not nanker cos he's never lived in hackney, Miss Shelf

 

[marty21]

I have now left hackney after living here for 19 years

that is all - I shall have to move to the appropriate chitter chatter now

of course, not nanker cos he's never lived in hackney, Miss Shelf

you can take the girl out of hackney, etc etc


you are still welcome in the chit chattiness

 

[marty21]

gentrification of chatsworth road continues, now along with the deli, coffee shop, juice bar, comes the creperie - now opened

 

[braindancer]

gentrification of chatsworth road continues, now along with the deli, coffee shop, juice bar, comes the creperie - now opened

Good lord - where will it end? A creperie?

I too am an exiled long-term inhabitant of Hackney but there is no Waltham Forest chitter chatter and I'm not sure it's worth starting one?

 

[rutabowa]

has anyone been in Chatsworth kitchen? was a it chaotic when i went in and had to leave before our food had arrived (they gave us monye back). was a nice cup of coffee though.

 

[marty21]

has anyone been in Chatsworth kitchen? was a it chaotic when i went in and had to leave before our food had arrived (they gave us monye back). was a nice cup of coffee though.

yep, do a lovely breakfast in there, bit pricy but very very nice - I think they can be a bit chaotic as they've only been opened a while, they need to shape up tbh

 

[rutabowa]

yeh there was some kind of kitchen meltdown going on, i went down to say we were leaving and they were all shouting at each other with no cooking going on.

 

[marty21]

yeh there was some kind of kitchen meltdown going on, i went down to say we were leaving and they were all shouting at each other with no cooking going on.

bad times

I've had breakfast in Venetia's across the road - do nice breakfast sandwiches, and they have a nice garden for sitting out in when it's sunny and that

 

[rutabowa]

yes she is really cool too, she taught an NCT class that i went to. no hot food in that cafe though... the best breakfast currently is from the fluorescent orange place nearest the hospital