StraferJack

There was a Potemkin russian restaurant Farringdon way for a while. It wasn't very good. Food (stews! Starch!) was ok, but the basement setting, damp smell and distinctly underwhelming service did it no favours Baltic on Blackfriars Road maybe?

New plastic bottle of milk and that poxy foil peel back bit after unscrewing the cap

* cough * http://www.eastdulwichforum.co.uk/forum/read.php?5,1146219,1280521#msg-1280521 But given that, I think it will be a great addition to the area and especially in opening up that end of the Lane

Yup - another cracking read I do like the White Hart as well, as a pub - but it does suffer from the usual M&B failings (bar staff can be scarce and the food is expensive and not good)

It was reading LadyG's post that reminded me...!

Loyalty Cards - just F*** off, be good and price things properly, THEN you'll have my loyalty

Still, I'd rather be arsenal fan than a man city fan

he means pizza. I know, hilarious

already linked with us... See I din't think Wenger is blind - I think he has been unable to acquire (for whatever reason)

I've always said install more booths out in the back area - that breaks up the space and makes people relax

Identify those 4 players, and rate % chance of them leaving their clubs now - GO!

pick the last 11 posters on this thread, put us on the park against Arsenal, and I'd fancy us to score

due to general transition below chelsea/city probably right - but it doesn't show much evolution from us. Usually when we f*** up like this we bounce back hard for a month or two but why does it have to happen at all

with hope being the operative word

absolutely shocking. no other word for it

Savage loz, savage!

Jah. I meant the pubs in the patch location. I was saying the patch didn't fail just because of location

Any cycling I did in Australia (on Rotnest Island especially, where there were NO cars!) was ruined by having to wear a helmet. No cars but forced helmet wearing = serious downgrade of nature admiration

but all of it seemed so obvious from the get go MrB

Location isn't ideal, no But the loacation will improve a lot when the cinema opens In relatively recent years (up until it's Rose incarnation) it managed to pull respectable numbers of people I think with the right owners it could do well Then agaon, Am I right in thinking it's a tied pub? That could be the problem, or one of the main ones anyway. Combination of location, bad vibes and inability to buy beer at reasonable wholesale prices makes it a tough gig So right owners with enough money to buy freehold could do well...

"but nobody even thinks that way now" hmmmmm

"But the owner claimed that everything was freshly prepared? Well, that's not a lie. You prepare frozen stuff by taking it out of the bag and heating it up." yup - drives me mad so many places do this. Then again not many places promised as much as the Patch did

The bus never stops in the same place and/because the stop serves multiple routes. So if you take the one outside ED station, that serves what, 5 different routes. Do you have 5 queues? Or one queue for all routes and then when 2 different buses arrive, somehow everyone for those buses politely removes themself? It's sunrealistic to expect a queue in these situations, to my mind

I didn't think Keane was having a go at Scholes for having a career in the media as I read it he was having a go at him for NOT doing the same media duties as a player that the other players did and that he hid behind a "aw gee shucks" persona - one he has now shed As for two egomaniacs fighting over book sales - I strongly doubt they are fighting a zero sum game - most people reading one will read the other And both will be infinitely more interesting than (to pick someone at random) Scholes book

Londoners - please be advised Toads in the Hole is coming to you - well, the Eagle in Battersea anyway