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I was a bit shocked to walk in to the NEW Peckham Rye Cafe. This is our local and we've been regulars for years. I had no warning that things were changing. While I did often wish for some updating of the menu, I am deeply distressed that there seems to be nothing vegan on the new menu and the new soya milk they are using makes my latte taste disgusting. I'm a little devastated. It' been a hard week of loss (USA election, Leonard Cohen, Leon Russell) and the cafe is just a nail in the coffin.


Anyone else super happy or sad about the change?

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Well it is Autumn now coming on Winter and things are quiet, but in the Summer The Park cafe is very popular and one of those little

things than many local people DO give a @#$%& about. So Malcom Tucker can do one.


Often stop of there when out walking. Nothing special but a lovely spot to sit outside with tea and a cake.


DulwichFox

No need to pardon, quotes those pearls o'wisdom away.


Jah Lush Wrote:

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> Pardon me while I quote Malcom Tucker here - "Give

> me a second while I look that up in my little file

> of things I really don't give a @#$%& about."

Shame the cafe has changed management. Stopped off regularly for a coffee and bacon sarnie. Coffee now is insipid and flavourless. Will go elsewhere. The new management are a chain with strong links to Royal Parks, so probably out bid the old lot, the wind has blown in from a new direction....!

I started a thread saying this very thing! You may want to look for it, the link to contact the caf? is on there, although they know my views because I complained in person too.



dreamymummy Wrote:

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> I was a bit shocked to walk in to the NEW Peckham

> Rye Cafe. This is our local and we've been

> regulars for years. I had no warning that things

> were changing. While I did often wish for some

> updating of the menu, I am deeply distressed that

> there seems to be nothing vegan on the new menu

> and the new soya milk they are using makes my

> latte taste disgusting. I'm a little devastated.

> It' been a hard week of loss (USA election,

> Leonard Cohen, Leon Russell) and the cafe is just

> a nail in the coffin.

>

> Anyone else super happy or sad about the change?

Louisa Wrote:

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> More first world problems. Why not just find an

> alternative venue which sells the things you miss?

> I'm losing the will to live reading some of the

> posts on here today. Going for a lay down.

>

> Louisa.


If only everyone could copy the stoical attitude you showed to losing your beloved Iceland Louisa! I don't think you were a great fan of suggestions then that you should "just find an alternative venue which sells the things you miss," were you?


I must admit I did at first think it's a caff, get over it - but then I thought some people get just as attached to caf?s as I do to pubs - if my favourite local was taken over and they stopped selling my favourite beers I'd be cross, I can actually see the OP's point.

I do miss Iceland rendel, but I didn't bang on about it. I jumped in my trusted automobile, and ventured down the old Kent road where I have since found a new exciting alternative to the old ED store. It's a shame we can't arrange once weekly free transport (some sort of mini bus?), to the new warehouse store for locals craving an Iceland fix. I know many less agile people who are openly quite jealous about my car trips to the new store. Not that I'm one to gloat.


Louisa.

Louisa Wrote:

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> I do miss Iceland rendel, but I didn't bang on

> about it. I jumped in my trusted automobile, and

> ventured down the old Kent road where I have since

> found a new exciting alternative to the old ED

> store. It's a shame we can't arrange once weekly

> free transport (some sort of mini bus?), to the

> new warehouse store for locals craving an Iceland

> fix. I know many less agile people who are openly

> quite jealous about my car trips to the new store.

> Not that I'm one to gloat.

>

> Louisa.


Ah Louisa, I'm a big fan of your posts but you did bang on just a wee bit!


Caf?s and pubs are different anyway, if someone's used to dropping in to the same caf? on their morning school run/exercise/dog walk etc, it's not much consolation to know that they could get in their car and drive two miles to find one similar to the one of which they've been deprived.

Willard Wrote:

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> Come on people, this is clearly a wind up...



If it is, DreamyMummy is clearly playing the long game, and very well. 37 other quite normal posts over the last two years... that really would be a top wind-up effort.

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