Hipster overload: Cereal Killer Cafe opens

[Cribynkle]

It took them a year and a fucking half to open a café that serves nothing but cereal.

They've had to spend a long time getting their website up and running, it must have taken ages to do the menu page:

http://cerealkillercafe.co.uk/#menu

And as for the events and corportae catering (!) page:

http://cerealkillercafe.co.uk/#event-hire-corporate-catering

So it's not like they've just been sat around twiddling their beards

 

[Cowley]

Why is it that everywhere is in Dalston these days? Years ago desperados would say they lived in Shoreditch if they lived in Dalston, nowadays it seems it's the other way round

 

[Utopia]

I liked the C4 interviewer I thought his approach was reasonable.

Felt it was a little unfair to point the finger at 2 youngish chaps on the first day of starting out their independent, creative(to a point!) new business when Tower Hamlets has plenty of Starbuck's, Costa’s or even Subway's that sell over-priced basic goods to an impoverished area and have done for years!

 

[ChrisFilter]

Exactly.

 

[gosub]

Front for drug money laundering, people leaving coked up will be explained away as being on sugar rush

 

[SarfLondoner]

Front for drug money laundering, people leaving coked up will be explained away as being on sugar rush

Smack,crackle and pot

 

[Mr Retro]

Hipsters have put parody out of business.

I've always been naive and easy to take the piss out of but now I'm fucked. I can't work out at all any more when something is serious or taking the piss.

 

[Pickman's model]

Hipsters have put parody out of business.

I've always been naive and easy to take the piss out of but now I'm fucked. I can't work out at all any more when something is serious or taking the piss.

parody died the day kissinger won the nobel peace prize.

 

[boohoo]

yoo can't stand on that end of brick lane and not be aware you're in one of the poorest boroughs of the UK, unless you're a dickhead

I think a lot of people don't see it. I'm sure all the tourists don't - they just think it's all a little rough around the edges.

 

[cantsin]

Why is it that everywhere is in Dalston these days? Years ago desperados would say they lived in Shoreditch if they lived in Dalston, nowadays it seems it's the other way round

this is a good cple of miles + away from Dalston

 

[maomao]

this is a good cple of miles + away from Dalston

You should go down to the Prince Albert pub in Streatham and see if you can find editor to complain.

 

[youbeauty]

Turns out they're a couple of working class brothers from Belfast: http://usvsth3m.com/post/so-i-visited-the-cereal-killer-cafe-and-what-happened-next-surprised-me
Im not sure why these two are getting so much grief for charging £3 for a bowl of cereal when there are loads of places round there charging similar amounts for a coffee.

 

[gosub]

Turns out they're a couple of working class brothers from Belfast: http://usvsth3m.com/post/so-i-visited-the-cereal-killer-cafe-and-what-happened-next-surprised-me
Im not sure why these two are getting so much grief for charging £3 for a bowl of cereal when there are loads of places round there charging similar amounts for a coffee.

There is some skill in making a decent coffee, (wouldn't pay £3, but don't live in London)

 

[youbeauty]

That may be but if you can't afford one, you can't afford the other.

 

[T & P]

i hate this rampant beardism. as someone who has owned a beard, on and off, for over 20 years, I feel everyone is looking at me like i am one of those

So you had a beard long before it became cool.

That's the kind of claim a hipster would put forward

 

[Sue]

Brush it regularly, oil it, store snacks in it, provide a home for small birds.

'There was an old man with a beard...'

(Not that I'm saying you're old, blame EL.)

 

[Orang Utan]

That may be but if you can't afford one, you can't afford the other.

Surely that depends on whether you think whether it's worth it. I've noticed the people I know on social media who have been bemoaning this café as evidence of the end of days would think nothing of spending £6 on a pint of craft beer or £15 on a pizza.

 

[Geri]

Turns out they're a couple of working class brothers from Belfast: http://usvsth3m.com/post/so-i-visited-the-cereal-killer-cafe-and-what-happened-next-surprised-me
Im not sure why these two are getting so much grief for charging £3 for a bowl of cereal when there are loads of places round there charging similar amounts for a coffee.

Because it's not coffee! It's cereal, you pour it into a bowl and add milk. Rip off.

 

[Orang Utan]

Because it's not coffee! It's cereal, you pour it into a bowl and add milk. Rip off.

Some people would rather have cereal though.

 

[Nancy_Winks]

Turns out they're a couple of working class brothers from Belfast: http://usvsth3m.com/post/so-i-visited-the-cereal-killer-cafe-and-what-happened-next-surprised-me
Im not sure why these two are getting so much grief for charging £3 for a bowl of cereal when there are loads of places round there charging similar amounts for a coffee.

Oh good luck to them Most small businesses deserve support cos it's bloody hard graft!

 

[tommers]

Surely that depends on whether you think whether it's worth it. I've noticed the people I know on social media who have been bemoaning this café as evidence of the end of days would think nothing of spending £6 on a pint of craft beer or £15 on a pizza.

Exactly. It's nonsense. They're ridiculous but to blame them for people not being able to afford stuff is a bit rich (Ho ho).

I guess that reporter is outside Barclays right now asking them about rigging the libor rates. Beardy didn't handle it very well but he recognised correctly that he was on a hiding to nothing. Pubs charge £4 a pint and you can get carling for a quid.

 

[maomao]

Don't think the price is the problem, it's hard to think what you could have for less round there that comes with a sit down. It's more that it's a big pile of hipster wank.

 

[alan_]

Don't think the price is the problem, it's hard to think what you could have for less round there that comes with a sit down. It's more that it's a big pile of hipster wank.

a shit

 

[Orang Utan]

Don't think the price is the problem, it's hard to think what you could have for less round there that comes with a sit down. It's more that it's a big pile of hipster wank.

No more than coffee or beer is.
It's like that cyber candy shop. It's cool.

 

[Wolveryeti]

To state the obvious: punters are paying mainly for the surroundings and staff costs not the cereal in that 3 quid.

 

[Pickman's model]

No more than coffee or beer is.
It's like that cyber candy shop. It's cool.

there's one born every minute

 

[maomao]

No more than coffee or beer is.

There's a lot more to a good coffee or good beer than there is to finding some kitsch colourful boxes and pouring them into a bowl with milk. And both were enjoyed extensively and openly by discerning adults long before most hipsters were born.

It's like that cyber candy shop. It's cool.

Wasn't familiar but had a look and they've been in business fourteen years and I would imagine they make at least as much money from expats and children as they do from excitable hipsters on the look out for something unique. This is just a cool café type thing, and one with no depth at all beyond the colourful boxes and 'unique'* idea.

(*unique as in ripped off wholesale from a 7 year old film)

 

[Orang Utan]

It's a matter of taste. I'd rather eat a novelty cereal or chocolate bar than some poncy cup of coffee that tastes of earth or some rancid dark ale that costs £6 a pint. They're all as 'hip' as each other.

 

[Orang Utan]

There's a lot more to a good coffee or good beer than there is to finding some kitsch colourful boxes and pouring them into a bowl with milk. And both were enjoyed extensively and openly by discerning adults long before most hipsters were born.


Wasn't familiar but had a look and they've been in business fourteen years and I would imagine they make at least as much money from expats and children as they do from excitable hipsters on the look out for something unique. This is just a cool café type thing, and one with no depth at all beyond the colourful boxes and 'unique'* idea.

(*unique as in ripped off wholesale from a 7 year old film)

So what? Don't get the hate apart from the fashionable sneering. The irony of it being cool to dismiss things as shit by labelling them as being for hipsters.

 

[maomao]

It's a matter of taste. I'd rather eat a novelty cereal or chocolate bar than some poncy cup of coffee that tastes of earth or some rancid dark ale that costs £6 a pint. They're all as 'hip' as each other.

If your coffee tastes like earth it's been made wrong, coffee made from freshly ground beans is rather nice, if you don't like coffee, you don't like coffee. I have one cup a day from nice beans I buy myself as a treat, at work I'm happy with whatever the cafe serves, I won't pay extra for coffees with fancy names, most cafes are shit and leave the grounds in the grinder for hours anyway so whatever it is it tastes bitter.

I never have and probably never will pay £6 for a pint of beer, but I do like to try a few different beers from the supermarkets when they're on offer. I'm aware that both beer and coffee have expensive 'hipster' purveyors but I'm not really well off enough to sample them.

So what? Don't get the hate apart from the fashionable sneering. The irony of it being cool to dismiss things as shit by labelling them as being for hipsters.

Never been accused of being fashionable, I just think it's a silly idea, ripped off and without depth. And it was the hipster invasion that priced me out of Hackney so yes I do feel I'm allowed to have a bit of a go at them and make fun of their silly clothes.