Just Wondering

[The Minkey]

I first came to visit a friend who lived in a bedsit on Oglander Road back in the early eighties. It's changed beyond recognition since, who would have guessed it back then.

[david_carnell]

Moflo Wrote:

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> I have lived in ED for 41 years, not born here!

> Changes in the place not all the best but on the

> whole its a great place to live. Could do with

> some more traditional pubs, M&S, an Italian (Bella

> Pasta, Zizzi), a good steak house. Don't agree

> when someone said shouldn't have Iceland here, can

> get some good bargains there!!

So help me Jesus.

An Italian? Really? I've said this before, but I'll keep saying it till I'm blue in the face. We HAVE Italians. Lots.

Il Mirto - Melbourne Grove

Si Magia - Forest Hill Road

Case Smerelda - towards Nunhead

Il Giardino - opposite Peckham Rye station

Locale - East Dulwich Road

The Gowlett and the Actress do pizzas

There is another new Italian opening on Bellenden Road.

AND, to top it off, the two things you've suggested....Bella Pasta and Zizzis....are NOT Italians. They serve some vague approximation of cod-Italian pre-cooked, packet sauce slop. The have about as much relation to Italian food as a horse and cart to a Ferrari. Please, stop it now before I explode in a mess of puttanesca sauce!

[mockney piers]

Ooh ED needs French food, like Cafe Rouge.

[SeanMacGabhann]

don't forget the new proper Italian opening in the Village

And erm... Pizza Express is there too. And Bella Pasta.

[Keef]

Kbabe01 Wrote:

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> I suspect we do.

>

> Karen x

Thought it might be you. Hiya.

[Kbabe01]

oh for gods sake. How anal to point out ALL italians in ED (with addresses!) Plus how "not italian" those suggested are! Maybe she was just of the opinion an italian on lordship lane would be nice.

Hi "Keef"!

[peckhamboy]

Which it would. But not a bella pasta or zizzi, please - not because they're "not italian" but simply because they're crap. Si Mangia is no more expensive than those, but a hundred times nicer. Somewhere like that along LL would be great.

[Santerme]

?9.99 and you are in Naples with low cost flights...

[mockney piers]

I went out with a bella pasta waitress for a wee while.

Her tales could turn you grey haired over night.

The food was so bad she wouldn't even spit on it leave alone eat it, which is something of a coincidence because potentially libellous anecdotes and the vicar said 'Not on your nelly' aha, ha ha... uhhhh hhhhuuuurrrhhhhhhh.

[david_carnell]

Kbabe01 Wrote:

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> oh for gods sake. How anal to point out ALL

> italians in ED (with addresses!) Plus how "not

> italian" those suggested are! Maybe she was just

> of the opinion an italian on lordship lane would

> be nice.

It's not anal. It's pointing out that asking for another Italian when we already are inundated with them is nonsensical. It would be like asking for another curry house. We have loads. Say you don't like the ones we have and discuss what a new one might bring and I might have some sympathy.

Pointing out their addresses saves the OP asking "where's that then?"

And pointing out that neither Bella Pasta nor Zizzis bears any resemblance to actual Italian food is just good eating (as Piers points out). I mean, it's actually depressing. An it doesn't even have the excuse of being cheap.

[SeanMacGabhann]

I think I know her

[Huguenot]

I don't, must have missed that one!

How about a Scottish restauarnt like... erm...

erm...

[mockney piers]

You do, Finnish.

And, Aberdeen Angus Steak House?

[Jah Lush]

SeanMacGabhann Wrote:

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> don't forget the new proper Italian opening in the

> Village

>

> And erm... Pizza Express is there too. And Bella

> Pasta.

You've obviously not been in the village for a while Sean. Bella Pasta closed down about three years ago and was replaced by Cafe Rouge.

[SeanMacGabhann]

Good catch Jah. I had indeed forgotten.

[KalamityKel]

Hehe I like that if a place dishes up a pizza or two its an italian restaurant... *giggles*

soz

[Ridgley]

My grandparents, lived here I grew up in Battersea