My Fathers Place on Coldharbour Lane to become a cocktail bar

[Peanut Monkey]

So it's goodbye to this long serving Caribbean restaurant and hello to the world of 'cocktail therapy' and 'modern speakeasy's.

It's set to open in Easter - the name is yet to be decided, but these are the people behind it: Chris & Dave of @saltsearth.

More here: http://www.brixtonbuzz.com/2014/02/...my-fathers-place-on-coldharbour-lane-brixton/

Any news on whether this is happening? Nothing seems to have done to it at all and Easter has long gone.

 

[cuppa tee]

Any news on whether this is happening? Nothing seems to have done to it at all and Easter has long gone.

I checked their twitter and it looks like they have been busy in the Cotswolds

 

[Yelkcub]

Any news on whether this is happening? Nothing seems to have done to it at all and Easter has long gone.

Maybe they are waiting for a delivery of banter? Or hats?

 

[trabuquera]

Too busy doing great things for the community. perhaps.

 

[leanderman]

Maybe they are waiting for a delivery of banter? Or hats?

They now suggest they might be taking over the Montego Inn on Brixton Water Lane instead.

 

[editor]

They seem awfully vague.

 

[Dexter Deadwood]

I hope they have the courage of their original convictions and open on Coldharbour Lane.

 

[Rushy]

I hope they have the courage of their original convictions and open on Coldharbour Lane.

Montego Inn is a cool little venue though. Over the years it has hardly ever seemed to be open.

 

[editor]

I hope they have the courage of their original convictions and open on Coldharbour Lane.

I reckon it would certainly prove an interesting addition to that very lively stretch

 

[leanderman]

Montego Inn is a cool little venue though. Over the years it has hardly ever seemed to be open.

Looks a better bet for these guys - and me

 

[gabi]

Montego Inn is a cool little venue though. Over the years it has hardly ever seemed to be open.

The owner goes home to Jamaica every summer for a few months. Weird but cool little spot to stop. He's always got a story or two.

 

[Rushy]

Looks a better bet for these guys - and me

It'll be rammed with people waiting for the Hoot queue to go down!

 

[leanderman]

It'll be rammed with people waiting for the Hoot queue to go down!

They could profit from the new-found 'vibrancy' of Lower Tulse Hill: Effra Social, Sainsbury and er, that's it.

 

[Badgers]

Montego Inn is a cool little venue though. Over the years it has hardly ever seemed to be open.

I suspect business was taking place

 

[Ms T]

I suspect business was taking place

.

 

[CH1]

The owner goes home to Jamaica every summer for a few months. Weird but cool little spot to stop. He's always got a story or two.

I suspect business was taking place

I know it. A work colleague used to go there.

Is it still owned by a guy called Bruce Stennett? Can't say I recall him, but I do remember he had a bash at getting into the shebeen type market in the early 1980s. He would open up on Sunday afternoons when the pubs turned out at 2 pm (yes - PM). He was really running a bar using his restaurant licence I suppose - but it never quite took off.

 

[editor]

Here's the lads at work.

Looks like they've given up on vibrant Coldharbour Lane now.

 

[Dexter Deadwood]

They bottled it

 

[trabuquera]

<feels warm glow of malicious schadenfreude - especially after seeing the pic in post#377>

 

[shakespearegirl]

Bruce had had the business up for sale for quite a few years, in his usual very laid back fashion. Think he wasn't that bothered and was waiting for the right buyer to come along

 

[leanderman]

Bruce had had the business up for sale for quite a few years, in his usual very laid back fashion. Think he wasn't that bothered and was waiting for the right buyer to come along

The generation of people who got properties basically for free, probably with flats thrown in above!

 

[CH1]

Here's the lads at work.

Looks like they've given up on vibrant Coldharbour Lane now.

I had been thinking the dynamic duo would be better suited to the Angel with their bijou mews set, rather than My Father's Place.

It seems they should rather contact LJAG and go in with the Loughborough Farm.

 

[leanderman]

Here's the lads at work.

Looks like they've given up on vibrant Coldharbour Lane now.

The picture is disturbing - but an extra bar is not to be sniffed at, especially with Mango gone

 

[SarfLondoner]

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[CH1]

Update on 334 (next to my Fathers Place)
Lambeth Planning have just given them planning permission to turn most of the ground floor space into a bedsit, although a small retail unti is supposed to remain at the front.
http://planning-docs.lambeth.gov.uk/AnitePublicDocs/00487202.pdf
seems that property development rather than cocktail bars/pop-up restaurants is the name of the game.

 

[Winot]

is it right that Mango has shut down?
if so whats happened to the spot?
very sad news if so.

A photo taken this weekend:

(Couldn't find a specific Mango Landin' thread.)

 

[Winot]

Hmm...



*waves to Brixton Blog*

 

[editor]

They're now announced that they will be opening a "neighbourhood cocktail and snack bar" in Brixton in late Summer.

 

[leanderman]

They're now announced that they will be opening a "neighbourhood cocktail and snack bar" in Brixton in late Summer.

Montego Inn, late July.

 

[Badgers]

Montego Inn, late July.

Yeah, I heard about this. It is a great potential venue space wise, but there have been a few (Khans aside) different bars/cafes on that row which have gone under Perhaps they will have a better offer and/or marketing team? Possibly the arrival of Effra Social and the overspill from the Hoot will make this a better location now?