Hipster overload: Cereal Killer Cafe opens

[littlebabyjesus]

We did not need the kind of re-generation we got, what we needed was for the local council to invest appropriately in the area..

Yes, indeed. TBF there are better examples elsewhere - around King's Cross, for instance, where estates have been improved a fair bit without the social cleansing.

 

[ViolentPanda]

I moved from Haggerston last year after being socially cleansed regenerated from there. I lived on Haggerston Estate from 1996, until then. We did not need the kind of re-generation we got, what we needed was for the local council to invest appropriately in the area.

What they actually did was systematically under maintain the estates we lived on so that when they moved to sell the land out from under us, most people were so unhappy that they voted yes to being taken over by L&Q.

They were deliberate about leaving the buldings to run down and rot. Low and behold when 'improvement' surveys were done the flats were condemned, on account of how much it would cost to refurbish/renew. This is going on everywhere.

Yep Lambeth council are currently trying to pull this on the estate that Greebo and I live on.

 

[harpo]

The only reason hating has gone on with this venture is the beards. They could've passed unnoticed without them and for whatever reason, those kinds of beards inspire irrational hatred.

That is where they went wrong.

 

[harpo]

Oh and Brick Lane (which is not Dalston) has been full of ridiculously priced ventures for at least 10 years.

 

[Orang Utan]

http://samkriss.wordpress.com/2014/12/15/a-visit-to-the-cereal-cafe/

 

[uk benzo]

I liked this, but it's equally guilty of said lazy journalism by bringing up the Brunswick Centre. I'm guessing they mean the Italian opposite the cinema, which is quite pricey. But they neglect to mention that literally two doors down from that is a Nando's. There's also a health centre, a Superdrug, a couple of supermarkets, a card shop, Boot's, a Yosushi and an assortment of mid-price clothes chains. And a bookie.

Does this person remember what the BC used to be like? It had a pretty ropey Tesco, a large greasy spoon, and um, not much else. It was grim, and felt grim, and families didn't hang out there in the way they do now. It felt not particularly safe. Now I lament the demise of the greasy spoon, but there's still a good, cheap cafe just about a minute's walk from the BC.

I'm guessing this journo didn't actually bother asking what the people who live there think of the changes. Also lazy to equate 'lives in social housing' with 'skint'.

The greasy spoon was a Jennys Burger. I knew the owner. A Swiss guy that worked his arse off to put his son through education. His son became a medically qualified histopathologist no less.

 

[RoyReed]

http://samkriss.wordpress.com/2014/12/15/a-visit-to-the-cereal-cafe/

A Ballardian vision of cereal hell!

 

[belboid]

http://samkriss.wordpress.com/2014/12/15/a-visit-to-the-cereal-cafe/

christ what a twat. A perfect fit with the cafe.

 

[youngian]

This is as much clickbait for lefties as much as Daily Mail article about the Roma moving next door is to their demographic. They are not the only ones selling overpriced nonsense to other tossers. As anyone whose seen someone pay money for water in a supermarket will testify. I would never come up with these kind of business ideas as I'd never believe there was enough demand for such idiocy and would certainly have no intention of feeding it. And I'm glad I think that way.

 

[littlebabyjesus]

 

[rutabowa]

The only reason hating has gone on with this venture is the beards. They could've passed unnoticed without them and for whatever reason, those kinds of beards inspire irrational hatred.

That is where they went wrong.

they went wrong? apparently it's been packed ever since it opened.

 

[DotCommunist]

anyone on the thread been there yet? 4 quid bowl of cereal lol.

I still might consider it if the cereal was sufficiently exotic and sugary. But only once.

 

[Ted Striker]

The greasy spoon was a Jennys Burger. I knew the owner. A Swiss guy that worked his arse off to put his son through education. His son became a medically qualified histopathologist no less.

As opposed to a medically qualified hipstathologist, like these two

 

[Orang Utan]

anyone on the thread been there yet? 4 quid bowl of cereal lol.

I still might consider it if the cereal was sufficiently exotic and sugary. But only once.

I'm living just round the corner right now so am going there for pudding soon after eating a hipster burrito.

 

[Orang Utan]

I had a Unicorn Poop cereal cocktail for £4.50. It was alright.

Can the title of this thread be updated with the correct location please?

 

[Orang Utan]

Forgot the obligatory photo:

 

[maomao]

Forgot the obligatory photo:
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That's not even a proper cereal bowl! That's a little ice cream bowl!

 

[Monkeygrinder's Organ]

That's not even a proper cereal bowl! That's a little ice cream bowl!

Right! They've gone too far now!

 

[marty21]

Someone told me there is a cat cafe near the cereal cafe , a cafe for cats , not hip cats, furry meowing cats . This didn't get all the stick that the cereal cafe got, I think non cats can go there as well and have non cat treats

 

[Fingers]

Fuckers.

 

[BoxRoom]

That's not even a proper cereal bowl! That's a little ice cream bowl!

It's like something some bizarre people put baked beans in as part of their FEB.

 

[maomao]

I want to go there just so I can kick off about the serving size now. That's barely a tablespoon.

 

[marty21]

It's like something some bizarre people put baked beans in as part of their FEB.

It is part of a FEB

 

[FridgeMagnet]

Cereal ramekins

 

[Orang Utan]

It was delicious. I doubt I will go again, mind.

 

[BoxRoom]

It is part of a FEB

I know!

I had to re-word it after I first typed it coz it made it look like I said it was optional or something.
For the record: Beans loose on the plate with no barrier twixt beans and egg.

Win.

 

[Giles]

Gotta say. There's about a million other people this reporter could/should be asking this sort of question to. Like, these two are obviously total fuckheads and the fact that they get the resources to set this nonsense up is grossly unfair on all the people in Tower Hamlets who'll never get such great opportunities ... but... they're not actually responsible for poverty in Tower Hamlets, they're not responsible for our capital city being used as a plaything/money tree for real estate investors/agents or even the vacuousness of modern subcultures. They're just regular strength arseholes being pandered to by a society that doesn't know the actual value of anything at all.

You could walk into pretty much any restaurant / cafe / bar anywhere, and "accuse" the owners of somehow "ignoring the poor" on the grounds that people who are skint don't spend money to eat or drink "out" because they can buy 10x the food in shops and eat it at home.

If they can persuade enough fools to hand over £3 or £5 for a bowl of corn flakes worth 10p, good luck to them.

 

[Lo Siento.]

You could walk into pretty much any restaurant / cafe / bar anywhere, and "accuse" the owners of somehow "ignoring the poor" on the grounds that people who are skint don't spend money to eat or drink "out" because they can buy 10x the food in shops and eat it at home.

If they can persuade enough fools to hand over £3 or £5 for a bowl of corn flakes worth 10p, good luck to them.

Good luck to them is a bit of a stretch, imo. They're still wankers.

 

[marty21]

I know!

I had to re-word it after I first typed it coz it made it look like I said it was optional or something.
For the record: Beans loose on the plate with no barrier twixt beans and egg.

Win.

Yes

 

[Treacle Toes]

Forgot the obligatory photo:
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I have the perfect outfit to wear whilst eating that...I'll make sure i'm wearing this when I go to eat a bowl of expensive sugar there.