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The Honor Oak - NOT A GASTRO PUB!!


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The Honor Oak has been refurbed and opens for business today. We stopped by yesterday to check it out, as it looked really nice. The new owner was there and we asked if it was a gastro pub - he reacted as if that was an insult, and informed us that it is most definitely not a gastro pub (apparently that is 'old hat'), it is a 'british dining concept' - ha ha, needless to say on the basis of that pretentious and unfriendly 'welcome' we will giving it a miss!!
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Bluelagoon Wrote:

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> DulwichFox Wrote:

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> > Not an East Dulwich Business.

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> Best not mention it then, eh?


Mention it by all means but should not be in the ED Businesses, Restaurants & Trades section.


Should be in the Lounge.


DulwichFox

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MrBen Wrote:

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> I'm you'll be down there fro a pint soon Foxy.

> Knowing how much you enjoy a good British dining

> concept.

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> :-)


Just experienced a True British dining concept.


Fish & Chips and Pickled Onions


Foxy. :)

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firkinboo Wrote:

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> ha ha, needless to say on the

> basis of that pretentious and unfriendly 'welcome'

> we will giving it a miss!!


How is that pretentious and unfriendly? You'll really not go somewhere because the landlord says that?


Really?

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We tried to book, but no luck, so we turned up to try and get a table, again we failed


So went to the Crooked Well, no luck either


Ended our tour at The Camberwell Arms, and it delivered. Whole chicken sharing platter for 4, roast potatoes and greens, bottle of wine


It's so consistent and secretly where I really wanted to go in the first place, even my not-so-communicative teen-boy was fully engaged with the whole thing


I shall try again with The Honor Oak and The Crooked Well, pretty well spoilt for choice on a Sunday, or any other come to think about it

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Tried the new Honor Oak on Friday evening. We were there by 18:30 and it was really busy. Inside full of grown ups, garden full of families & kids. I liked it but unfortunately when we tried to order food at 19:30 they had stopped taking orders as they were too overwhelmed! And I really wanted the Lobster Burger... The restaurant bit looked nice. It was fully booked out so we didn't even get to see the menu (different from the bar menu).

Didn't get to see the Whisky Room either but look forward to paying another visit.


So we went off and ate at Babur. Which was expensively delicious!

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I look forward to trying it out with Mrs Sydenham Central and Master Sydenham Central along with the new Bistro in Sydenham (on the Hoof) which is opening soon (and is wonderful as we went to the 'soft' opening).


Why do people no like the term Gastro pub? It's just a word, and to me means 'they serve food that is a little better than McDonalds'. Where I grew up, all pubs served food, and they were all the same. There is probably more variety now than there ever was.


Good luck to them. Shame they covered up those beautiful tiles outside though, which was a bit daft.

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I think "Gatro pub" is a dated term now, and it puts me in mind of the early 2000s when it meant that pubs would be stripped out, and serve very bland food in very bland surroundings. If I was opening a new pub that was aiming for good food, I'd want to avoid the term to be honest.
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I agree with Otta. As a term its as wed to early 2000's as "e-commerce".But in the absence of anyone coming up with a better word which describes it its still widely used.


This is a bit radical, but what about "Pub & Restaurant"?


:-)

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This pub actually seems to have some good reviews anyway.


On a similar note walked into two pubs with no football on yesterday and people were eating

- disgusted ;) - luckily the Rye had their big screen up :) it's the Premier League folks.

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