New Brixtonite

[Minnie_the_Minx]

Yeah.. sorry I take back everything I said about the bakers.

Is it the same iced bun? Maybe it's not even a real one

 

[Cid]

Well it's a bakers - you lot may just not have seen it at normal bakery hours.

 

[gaijingirl]

ok guys.. I am seriously only joking about the bakers. It is opened in the mornings - but not early before you go to work. I think it tends to close down early afternoon. It was opened when I just went there.

It just makes me laugh because if you do work you will never ever see it open. It's only if you're at home during the day or get the day off you notice that it's actually a real business.

And it does sell those buns with icing sugar and one cherry on the top.

 

[rennie]

And it does sell those buns with icing sugar and one cherry on the top.

I want one!

 

[tarannau]

I know there was a rumour once of someone who had eaten in there. They certainly have a menu and a whole dining room set up.

Here, you leave Bruce and the Montego Inn alone. He used to be a pretty mean cook back in the day - you'd interrupt him from his TV watching and he'd take your drinks order and take to the kitchen eventually, coming out with some fine home cooked food. It was like being in someone's living room.

And yep, he used to throw some mean after-parties in the downstairs wine bar place too. Some seriously debauched affairs at times.

I still pop in to say hi from time to time but I get the feeling he's just winding things down and hoping to sell up, retiring back to the proper Montego Bay. He'll still cook if you ask, but generally he's only got what he was going to serve himself for tea. He's treading water a little and the place needs a major refit, but I'll give Bruce a huge thumbs up - he's been in the neighbourhood for what must be getting close to 20 years, if not more.

Peppers and Spice do great patties, Lick Finger the better meals generally. Lick Finger's the venue of choice for many of the old JA faces...

 

[tarannau]

That bakery is a little bit of a mystery though. I had thought it had been shut for a fair old while, but I swear I walked past a weekend or two back and the place was full of people...and bread. I had to pinch myself to believe it, but I've not really seen anything in there since.

Most peculiar...

 

[Minnie_the_Minx]

but I swear I walked past a weekend or two back and the place was full of people...and bread. I had to pinch myself to believe it, but I've not really seen anything in there since.

Most peculiar...

photographic evidence is needed

 

[Kid_Eternity]

Finally taken the plunge and done the thing that all true Londoners must do at least once... Moving to Brixton. Will be living in a house with 3 mates (who've been there 2 years) and someone else (2 of my friends just moved out, we had someone who wanted to take the 5th place but they've pulled out) on Tulse road. Looking forward to the market, decent places to go out and Jazz nights at the Effra. Camden's been great and I'll always be a north Londoner, but lets face it - head shops and teenage goths lose their appeal after a while...

Aha! The great Northern Invasion continues, moved out from Kentish Town to Southwark January just passed, actually enjoying it a lot more than I thought I would. Nice to not live in an area where family friends get stabbed to death or your house gets burgled every fucking year…

 

[gaijingirl]

Here, you leave Bruce and the Montego Inn alone.

Have I said a bad word about the place? No!... it looks perfectly lovely - if a little on the empty side.

 

[gaijingirl]

That bakery is a little bit of a mystery though. I had thought it had been shut for a fair old while, but I swear I walked past a weekend or two back and the place was full of people...and bread. I had to pinch myself to believe it, but I've not really seen anything in there since.

Most peculiar...

It's open today.

 

[art of fact]

im also soon to be a brixtonite, looking forward to being able to walk around loads of my mates houses.. a year in East London and i av had enough

 

[Cid]

Aha! The great Northern Invasion continues, moved out from Kentish Town to Southwark January just passed, actually enjoying it a lot more than I thought I would. Nice to not live in an area where family friends get stabbed to death or your house gets burgled every fucking year…

You know I never really thought about that, but now I do I know someone who got stabbed over towards Tufnell park and avoiding being mugged got to be something of an art in my teens and even recently. The robberies were certainly frequent too.

Come to think of it, compare Effra road to the Camden end of Kentish Town road late at night... It's odd, I know so many people who avoided Brixton because they were scared and are now living round there. Mind you the Brixton area record is hardly spotless either, but I've never felt threatened on Tulse hill.

 

[Kid_Eternity]

You know I never really thought about that, but now I do I know someone who got stabbed over towards Tufnell park and avoiding being mugged got to be something of an art in my teens and even recently. The robberies were certainly frequent too.

Come to think of it, compare Effra road to the Camden end of Kentish Town road late at night... It's odd, I know so many people who avoided Brixton because they were scared and are now living round there. Mind you the Brixton area record is hardly spotless either, but I've never felt threatened on Tulse hill.

Yep, two friends of my family were killed six weeks from each other a few years back, gun shit getting worse over the years, robberies by crackheads (amongst other local scum)=KE the fuck otta dodge!

 

[Cid]

The guy I knew was my sister's friend's brother - I went to school with him for a while but he's a couple of years older than me so we didn't socialise that much, knew him fairly well though. Was very severely injured but fortunately made a full recovery, and Tufnell Park is one of the safer areas up there.

Even where I was in the wealthy Dartmouth park area (canny house buying by my parents in the early 80s) it wasn't uncommon to be threatened or jumped in broad daylight... Quite often it was just kids from William Ellis or Ackland Burleigh (sp?), but it's still really not something you want to be dealing with on a weekly basis.

 

[Kid_Eternity]

The guy I knew was my sister's friend's brother - I went to school with him for a while but he's a couple of years older than me so we didn't socialise that much, knew him fairly well though. Was very severely injured but fortunately made a full recovery, and Tufnell Park is one of the safer areas up there.

Even where I was in the wealthy Dartmouth park area (canny house buying by my parents in the early 80s) it wasn't uncommon to be threatened or jumped in broad daylight... Quite often it was just kids from William Ellis or Ackland Burleigh (sp?), but it's still really not something you want to be dealing with on a weekly basis.

Indeed. I knew a few people from Dartmouth Park Hill, some of the crims that used to hang out in the crescent used to live up there (ironic how they use to like to go cause shit then retreat to their quieter areas…)…

 

[Ol Nick]

Yeah, Two Woodcocks is a beautiful pub. Full of character, beautiful design, beautiful people and absolutely top-notch grub. Get in there and make it your local. Beats The Albert hands down And what's more, it's a bit of an SW2 secret, so don't let those SW9ers know about it

I was on my way back home to SW9 from the park with my parents the other day and I was thinking of stepping in for a pinot of Pinot Grigio and packet of pistachios but I got a bit overawed and was worried that it wasn't for the likes of me.

Was that Prince Charles I saw in there the other day?

 

[twistedAM]

I was on my way back home to SW9 from the park with my parents the other day and I was thinking of stepping in for a pinot of Pinot Grigio and packet of pistachios but I got a bit overawed and was worried that it wasn't for the likes of me.

Was that Prince Charles I saw in there the other day?

should have gone in they've got a new chef

 

[Brixton Hatter]

I was on my way back home to SW9 from the park with my parents the other day and I was thinking of stepping in for a pinot of Pinot Grigio and packet of pistachios...

ha ha