gipsy hill/crystal palace say ho!

[tommers]

Gurkha is good, only been there once a while back though.

Mehfil on Church Rd is excellent.

Had The Indian Dining Club in Gipsy Hill (bottom, near Mansion House) recommended to me as the 'best curry I've had in the UK' by a mate who no longer lives in the uk.

I really like the White Hart, the Grape and Grain looks a little gruff (as did the pub before it). Opposite ends of the pub spectrum really aren't they?

Mehifil has changed. It's called the Yak and Yeti now. Similar to the Gurkha and equally good I reckon. I really like it.

The White Hart is alright, it lost me a bit when it went through a bad patch a while ago. It's just always busy and it sometimes takes ages to get served in there. I remember when it opened though... it was great to have somewhere that actually served different beers.

The grape and grain isn't gruff. Trust.

 

[tommers]

I can imagine.

The important question is whether you let the sprog follow its dad's beknighted team, force it to support middlesbrough, or see if it opts for palarse.

Oh come on RD. There will not be a choice. I will have failed if there is.

 

[porno thieving gypsy]

The Indian Dining Club is not that good.

 

[liberty]

We are by Dulwich Woods it's beautiful.. Have you been yet?

 

[liberty]

I think we all know that Penge is in fact the poor person's Sydenham.

Agreed Sydenham Hill is very posh

 

[twister]

Agreed Sydenham Hill is very posh

yeah but Sydenham Hill ain't Sydenham.... up there you can look down and spit at everyone else...

 

[twistedAM]

top of the hill!

fave pub at moment is the Albert beer garden

haven't been to Grape & Grain as I even hate just walking past Patricks and the Cambridge

like the White Hart yard/beer garden but the patrons are a bit ya-ya

 

[twister]

like the White Hart yard/beer garden but the patrons are a bit ya-ya

ya? and your problemo amigo?

I went to the Mansion House for the first time (bottom of Gypsy Hill) and found it rather pleasant. Been?

 

[perplexis]

I'm an ex-CPite. Miss it quite a lot... lots of decent drinking establishments, plenty of restaurants and nice community.
Enjoy!

 

[liberty]

yeah but Sydenham Hill ain't Sydenham.... up there you can look down and spit at everyone else...

I could but I don't

 

[beeboo]

I could but I don't

Being a bit further down the hill I'm 'keepin' it real'

 

[twistedAM]

ya? and your problemo amigo?

I went to the Mansion House for the first time (bottom of Gypsy Hill) and found it rather pleasant. Been?

No but just went drinking last night with a few mates in the Albert last night and the manager of the Mansion House turns out to be a mutual friend so I should trundle down the hill sometime.
Although I live in Palace I rarely get a chance to go out there as almost always working in Brixton at night. Like, now.

 

[tommers]

No but just went drinking last night with a few mates in the Albert last night and the manager of the Mansion House turns out to be a mutual friend so I should trundle down the hill sometime.
Although I live in Palace I rarely get a chance to go out there as almost always working in Brixton at night. Like, now.

Isn't it run by the same people who own the white rooms in clapham?

I haven't been to the mansion for a while though...

 

[twistedAM]

Isn't it run by the same people who own the white rooms in clapham?

I haven't been to the mansion for a while though...

No idea but it did get quite a makeover from whatever it was before.
Surprised no one has mentioned the Railway Bell but that's another one I haven't been into in ages.

 

[RubyToogood]

It's nice but nobody goes there, that's why.

 

[dogmatique]

No idea but it did get quite a makeover from whatever it was before.
Surprised no one has mentioned the Railway Bell but that's another one I haven't been into in ages.

Yes it is, and it's gone right downhill since they took over - food has been dreadful on more than one occasion. Don't really go there now.

The Mansion lot moved over to the Bridge House Tavern next to Penge West station and did a similar refurb job on it. The kitchen is now excellent, but on a Sunday it's a total creche.

The Railway Bell is a nice little trad pub, but suffers from lack of punters...

 

[twistedAM]

We should all have a trad pub night out: the Bell followed by the Albert.

 

[19sixtysix]

Another Crystal Palace urbanite. I live just down the hill from the TV tower. I get views of london and the woods.

 

[Minnie_the_Minx]

2 guys in my office live there

My sister's in Thornton Heath near Spa Hill

 

[Minnie_the_Minx]

No but just went drinking last night with a few mates in the Albert last night and the manager of the Mansion House turns out to be a mutual friend so I should trundle down the hill sometime.
Although I live in Palace I rarely get a chance to go out there as almost always working in Brixton at night. Like, now.

pffft

 

[tommers]

We should all have a trad pub night out: the Bell followed by the Albert.

We used to go to the Bell all the time but it's a bit of a local's pub. Good lockins though! And the Youngs is always good.

 

[twistedAM]

The neighbourhood takes a downturn. Budgens has become a NISA.

 

[rennie]

Budgens was crap though.

 

[twistedAM]

Budgens was crap though.

I know; it'll be worse now.

 

[Lit Up]

For a few weeks I was seeing a girl who lived in Gypsy Hill. She was an absolute nutcase named Victoria Logan, (para)militarised to the hilt by a turbulent upbringing in a Northern Irish shithole, and on the wrong side of the nutcase divide (a loyalist - think Mad Dog Adair but in the guise of a small-framed woman). She was a Heavy Metal DJ who would scream FENIAN BASTARD anytime she dropped something. I'm sure that she will suffer a lonely death choking on smoke, drink, devolution and other assorted insecurities.

Anyway just thought I'd express my opinion of the place.... not really worth visiting for any reason, only moving to if you cannot afford anything more..... you know the score.

 

[ChrisFilter]

For a few weeks I was seeing a girl who lived in Gypsy Hill. She was an absolute nutcase named Victoria Logan, (para)militarised to the hilt by a turbulent upbringing in a Northern Irish shithole, and on the wrong side of the nutcase divide (a loyalist - think Mad Dog Adair but in the guise of a small-framed woman). She was a Heavy Metal DJ who would scream FENIAN BASTARD anytime she dropped something. I'm sure that she will suffer a lonely death choking on smoke, drink, devolution and other assorted insecurities.

Anyway just thought I'd express my opinion of the place.... not really worth visiting for any reason, only moving to if you cannot afford anything more..... you know the score.

I love Gypsy Hill. Beautiful place. You sound like the kind of nauseating fuck who lives in Islington, Clapham or Camden.

 

[twistedAM]

I love Gypsy Hill. Beautiful place. You sound like the kind of nauseating fuck who lives in Islington, Clapham or Camden.

Lit Up lives in Camden. Alone.

 

[tommers]

Lit Up lives in Camden. Alone.

I used to live in Camden. Absolutely fucking hated it. Lemontop used to watch the crack dealers before she went to work. Horrible place. I think I finally realised it when I got off the tube on a Sunday morning, hungover, into a whirlwind of dealers, pickpockets, tourists and traffic. Ugh.

 

[Cerberus]

A slightly muted 'yo' from me in Sydenham - as my voice has to carry across the park

Sometimes drink in the Paxton Arms at Gipsy Hill - or whatever its called now - good quiz on a tuesday.

Palace is a bit of a mixed bag IMO. Slightly gentrified. Still slightly rough round the edges. Some good pubs, some shit pubs.

 

[ChrisFilter]

Yeah, I lived on the Lock pretty much. Fucking horrible place.