Hipster overload: Cereal Killer Cafe opens
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Orang Utan
Psychick Worrier Ov Geyoor
Not me.
I might go in the new year when the excitement dies down a bit. I'll be living just round the corner for the next two months, so will definitely at least have a look at their menu.
Orang Utan
Psychick Worrier Ov Geyoor
I rec-corn you're right
Yes, I was surprised they managed to get a loan for what's basically one of those ideas that sounds cool when you're stoned.
IIRC restaurants and cafes are the businesses most likely to fail.
What I find most baffling about this constant whinging about 'hipsters' is that you, editor, spend so much time in these places. I'm sitting in one of your favorite ones right now, Kaff. It's nice. But yes, there are glowing Apple logos everywhere and more beards than even the hippest barber in the market could handle.
Deal with it. Change happens. I've been back in Brixton a week after two years and to be honest, it hasn't changed as much as I'd thought from the constant whining on here from you and others. It's still the best bit of of the best city in the world.
Deal with it. Change happens. I've been back in Brixton a week after two years and to be honest, it hasn't changed as much as I'd thought from the constant whining on here from you and others. It's still the best bit of of the best city in the world.
They're going to lose all their customers to the new Swiss themed Muesli café I'm going to open next door.
Monkeygrinder's Organ
Dodgy geezer swilling vapid lager
I'll look forward to seeing you in your lederhosen on C4 news.
goldenecitrone
post tenebras lux
Call it Abowlofgrits Now with the logo I love the smell of Alpen in the mornings.
Orang Utan
Psychick Worrier Ov Geyoor
tommers
It was... Rebekah Vardy's account
This needs one of those "what happened next" things you get at the end of documentaries.
"Symeone developed his ambush style of interviewing and now fronts newsnight. His suits are handmade by a Savile Row tailor"
"The twins are sold their cafe to Apple for £50 million and are replacing Sir Alan Sugar in the next series of the Apprentice. "
"Symeone developed his ambush style of interviewing and now fronts newsnight. His suits are handmade by a Savile Row tailor"
"The twins are sold their cafe to Apple for £50 million and are replacing Sir Alan Sugar in the next series of the Apprentice. "
Ranbay
The same rules apply
£4 what a rip off, i can fly to the USA and get them for $2
tommers
It was... Rebekah Vardy's account
£4! Who the fuck can afford that?
littlebabyjesus
one of Maxwell's demons
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'.
Treacle Toes
Time
We are heading this way...same shit, different country:
http://rabble.ca/blogs/bloggers/michael-stewart/2012/11/token-solution-downtown-eastside
A token solution for the Downtown Eastside
By
Michael Stewart
| November 23, 2012
Save-On-Meats owner Mark Brand cares about Vancouver's homeless. We know this because he has a reality television show on the Oprah network -- Gastown Gamble -- which follows the stories of "young entrepreneurial hipsters" as they "struggle" to open an upscale deli in the Downtown Eastside. While Brand's show, which also features his wife Nico, documents the anguish the restauranteurs suffer as they agonize over how best to save the troubled residents of the neighbourhood, it doesn't represent so well the owners' complicity in displacing, alienating and disempowering the residents who have lived there for years.
Never mind, though. Mark Brand has a new plan. As reported by the Province, Save-On-Meats has produced 10,000 "tokens" which patrons can purchase to distribute to "homeless" people (who obviously can't be trusted with money). These tokens, which bear the restaurant's logo ("They will never be traded for cash," Brand assures us), can be exchanged for a Save-On-Meats breakfast sandwich, worth $2.25.
http://rabble.ca/blogs/bloggers/michael-stewart/2012/11/token-solution-downtown-eastside
Yes, I've never been in one but the flats look spacious and light from the outside. I'm sure any that have been sold under right to buy would cost a good few hundred thousand pounds on the open market.
littlebabyjesus
one of Maxwell's demons
yeah, I'd love to live there. The BC is a spectacularly bad eg of gentrification, tbh. It's urban regeneration, really, given what has been replaced.
maomao
普費斯
Last sale I can find there was £850k for a 2 bed leasehold in April this year.
littlebabyjesus
one of Maxwell's demons
Treacle Toes
Time
2 bedroomed new build flats in Haggerston are currently half a million pounds.
littlebabyjesus
one of Maxwell's demons
Haggerston is a good example of a place that needed regeneration, tbh. I lived there for a bit in the mid-90s, and in the square by the block I was in, the shops were mostly boarded up. There was a bookie and offie, inevitably, and not much else. The adventure playground was totally derelict. It wasn't very pleasant.
Problem is that the idea of regeneration that doesn't involve yet more hikes in property prices appears to have been more or less totally lost.
Treacle Toes
Time
I moved from Haggerston last year after being
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.
