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hiraethified
An expensive one too: you can guarantee that the drink prices at Pop will be hugely more expensive than the Canterbury.
Pop Brixton (formerly Grow Brixton) Pope's Road development
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Nanker Phelge
Leave the gun. Take the cannoli.
I've done some research and it's fairly common apparently...but I've not heard of it before....not that cocktails are my thing.
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hiraethified
You can guarantee that it's not something the landlord wants on his menu. To be honest, I've never seen a single cocktail served at the Albert. In fact, I didn't even know they did them until it was brought up here (to score points, natch).
Still, if people want to persist with this erroneous comparison, I note that they're priced at 2 for 1 after 5pm. So that's £3.50 per cocktail. Shall we see what the price is at the committed to supporting the local community Pop?
Nanker Phelge
Leave the gun. Take the cannoli.
Do the staff even know how to make 'em?
han
love is the answer
I doubt it - they don't even usually have a clue who's turn it is to be served next, unlike in the good old days....
Pubs *like that* aren't really where anyone would go for cocktails, are they. What an odd idea.
han
love is the answer
I was merely answering a question, but yes, I agree with you about Pop. The lack of diversity in that photo (age, ethnicity etc) does reflect that they're not bothered about attracting the wider community at all. Just rich, young, white people.
Nanker Phelge
Leave the gun. Take the cannoli.
Yes, any chance of Pop ever being a genuine community focussed venture has long since gone, and now they they are not even trying to pretend otherwise. That's not going to change is it? It's likely to become more monocultural, not less.
It's there for the people they want it to be there for, which is those that have enough disposable income to have an £8 cocktail and a £10+ burger...and pay £5 for a beer....etc etc etc....
No one's doing anything about it though are they? Pop has been allowed to do as it the pleases. the railway arch businesses will go, more local shops and businesses will suffer under rent increases and more local people will be displaced due to greedy landlords and property developers?
I'm a bit numb to it all now....
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Nanker Phelge
Leave the gun. Take the cannoli.
False advertising....bastards!!!
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hiraethified
Like I said, that site really has very little to do with the Albert itself. It's just a crappy generic corporate placeholder. But if they did do cocktails, they'd be a shitload cheaper than rip off Pop
Nanker Phelge
Leave the gun. Take the cannoli.
There's enough cocktails in the world...we can live without anymore...
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hiraethified
I dearly wish that were true but I've no doubt there'll be even more cocktail-shuntin' yuppie attractin' unaffordably priced cocktail bars opening up in Brixton soon. They go so well with a £10 trendyburger.
T & P
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I have just looked on the Pop website- something I seldom do as I have little reason to- and was surprised to see that this supper club event is not the one and only birthday event, actually.
One of the other birthday events is a fancy dress birthday ball this Friday, and is completely free of charge.
And the main birthday party event takes place on Saturday and consists of 12 hours of live music and DJ sets, with tickets costing a very affordable and reasonable £3 to £5.
I thought this was worth pointing out in case some people thought the £50 gourmet dining gig was the only birthday event at Pop Brixton, which would have indeed been rather exclusive. But as it happens that's not the case at all.
3Zeros
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I don't see that anyone claimed that the meal was the only event, but I'm glad you took time out of your day to investigate. I'm sure this was done for the good of the posters of this forum and definitely not so you could feel you got "one-up" in this thread. Well done you.
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hiraethified
The £50 'feast' is still exclusive, regardless of any other events that take place. Add in the fact that the place trumpets itself as being "for the community" yet advertises the event with a photo completely free of diversity and you've got an indefensible pile of excusive bollocks.
And as for those other events, the place will still be ripping off punters with £5 pints in shitty plastic containers. But that's alright with you too, eh?
T & P
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hiraethified
Seems a whole load more meaningful and on-topic than bringing up the Albert in a disasterously backfiring attempt to undermine the discussion with cheap personal digs..
Really good contribution to the debate, well done
T & P
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I thought we were done debating image demographics?
Of course the supper club event is exclusive- I said that myself. But Pop/ Grow Brixton had always, from the very beginning, been envisaged to be supported by commercial ventures. It was never going to be a 100% free, non commercial experience for the community. If every event taking place cost as much money as the supper club it would be a different story, naturally. But it is just one event. One.
T & P
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Who's been doing that?
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hiraethified
Did you miss the references to the Albert in this thread? How strange.
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hiraethified
But it's absolutely OK with you for community projects that claim to be 'for the community' to hold unaffordable, exclusive events as part of their birthday celebrations, yes? It's not like this is the only unaffordble 'feast' they've had there, but generally birthday meal celebrations are for everyone, not just the well-to-do.
SpamMisery
Pretty comfortable here right under your skin
Nobody claimed it but from the discussion on here i got the impression it was the only thing on. £3 - £5 sounds pretty affordable
T & P
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It's a fair point and I agree with it and with your sentiment about it. I am not claiming that everything that takes place in Pop is good or beyond criticism.
twistedAM
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"Red Guard"(NLYL)
Gets 78/100 on Ratebeer.com though at 4.1% abv I wouldn't buy it for £4. Maybe if it was some head-banger special 14%.Dalston beer, so bound to be expensive
twistedAM
Left Of The Dial
Tut tut, the money they spent on design, marketing and PR more than justifies this.
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"Red Guard"(NLYL)
Not convinced your link is the Dalston brew. It refers to an Australian beer amusingly called "Redneck English Easter Bunny".
On the other hand 40ft Pale Ale is definitively the Dalston overpriced stuff.
