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friendofdorothy said:
yesterday afternoon I went to our new cocktail bar First Aid Box. It was fab - over 25 types of gin and I was seriously bad mood in need of gin medication. I was up front that I only had £9 on me (£4 for a small gins ok.) I had a local Peckham gin - lovely and then some fantastic rhubarb gin (mango5 you would love it) Chris, the host, was very chatty and pleasant local lad who remembers the plumbing shop. Weird shop that, very anti retail. He was very knowledgable about all the booze. We had an amusing conversation about this and that.

He insisted I try a cocktail on the house - which was delicious. Then insisted I try an Aviation, then offered 'one for the frog' no idea why, but it was a superb stawberry martini - all on the house. As I'm neither young nor attractive, and obviously not rich, I can only assume he found me witty or he was bored - either way I appreciated the generousity.
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No hat required it would seem. My mate and I were given drinks on the house simply on account of being the last people in there. Having not been in before, I've visited twice this week. Quite impressed really. And very friendly. Seems to have avoided the more gimmicky cocktail ideas from shrub whilst still being original.
 
Popped into the Commercial and ordered at pint of Meantime lager. £5.05 !!! I swore at the barman. He commented that was a normal price, Herne Hill is over......
 
Rushy said:
Head to the Regent. Hop Head starts with a 3.
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Great news.

To be honest I was being a little unfair. I went to the Bullfinch tap room last week and had some of the finest beer on the planet at reasonable prices. It's just if you want some 'brand' lager they try and rip you off in the pubs.
 
DJWrongspeed said:
Great news.

To be honest I was being a little unfair. I went to the Bullfinch tap room last week and had some of the finest beer on the planet at reasonable prices. It's just if you want some 'brand' lager they try and rip you off in the pubs.
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I've always thought meantime horribly over rated to be honest. Disappointed that the commercial stopped doing Beavertown. But it was pricey too.

I tried the bullfinch last weekend. Liked the place. Wasn't blown away by either of the beers I tried but will definitely try again. Canopy Brockwell and Milkwood I like a lot.
 
DJWrongspeed said:
Popped into the Commercial and ordered at pint of Meantime lager. £5.05 !!! I swore at the barman. He commented that was a normal price, Herne Hill is over......
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editor said:
Fucking hell. That is an almighty rip.
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Meantime was always expensive. A half pint at RFH used to b e about £3 3 years ago.

Besides that they've now been taken over by ("sold out to") Inbev!
 
I like the Meantime London Pale, but I don't see why it should be more expensive than anything else. More than a fiver on the far edge of Zone 2 is a piss take.

Mind you, I was hit with a bill for £5.65 a pint in the Railway about 18 months ago.
 
Smick said:
I like the Meantime London Pale, but I don't see why it should be more expensive than anything else. More than a fiver on the far edge of Zone 2 is a piss take.

Mind you, I was hit with a bill for £5.65 a pint in the Railway about 18 months ago.
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For one pint? What of?
 
I took the boy to Canopy (I think- arch off Rosendale). Nice environs but almost choked when it was almost a tenner for a takeaway two pint milk carton... Tbf I don't get out much now. Maybe that's normal?!
 
Sister Midnight said:
I took the boy to Canopy (I think- arch off Rosendale). Nice environs but almost choked when it was almost a tenner for a takeaway two pint milk carton... Tbf I don't get out much now. Maybe that's normal?!
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Shouldn't be. Their standard pints are £3.50 so you must have been buying the Special Reserve or something.
 
snowy_again said:
Rosendale would be Bullfinch brewery
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Canopy is under the Tulse Hill Herne Hill railway line, behind the row of shops with the post office, chutney Indian, soft play etc.

I remember thinking it was a bit pricey, but I don't know what it costs to run it. They wouldn't have the volume of the bigger independents.

It's nice to sit out there in the sun. There's an old Citroen DS to look at as well.
 
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A few things I saw today on my walk around Herne Hill...

The old Just Williams shop has a licensing notice for Chix and Buck - who run the Wine Parlour on Atlantic Road, so it looks like they are planning something similar for Herne Hill. Does Herne Hill now need an offshoot of every popular Brixton business? We've already got the Shrub and Shutter mark II.

Also, Saray the new Turkish restaurant where Saz once was on Norwood Road looks like it's nearly ready to open. They've done a lot of work refurbishing it. Hoping its going to be good.

The Best Kebab, on the stretch being refurbed by Network Rail, seems to be refusing to shut. Apparently it's causing delays to the work starting on that whole stretch. :D

The lovely but now sadly closed number 22 restaurant has become a posh hairdressers called Aitch SE24. Think it opened yesterday. Apparently the first 100 people through the door get a free haircut, not sure of the small-print though.
 
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