The Drum, home

[tomM]

Saffron from Republica was there??? at The Drum?

why was she there??? is she a regular?

[ratty]

The Drum is great, but, at the risk of going Off Topic, Cheers is absolutley the friendliest shop on LL!

Anyway, that's my first post and all I have to say for now!

[Keef]

Cheers ("Where Everybody Knows Your Name")

Making your way in the world today takes everything you've got.

Taking a break from all your worries, sure would help a lot.

Wouldn't you like to get away?

Sometimes you want to go

Where everybody knows your name,

and they're always glad you came.

You wanna be where you can see,

our troubles are all the same

You wanna be where everybody knows

Your name.

You wanna go where people know,

people are all the same,

You wanna go where everybody knows

your name.

Yeah well perhaps not, but they're good guys (tu)

[karter]

I think i must be going blind. I'm a trader on LL..... where the heck is cheers?

[ratty]

Nortchross Road - easy to find!

[mightyroar]

lovely use of music to illustrate your point Keef

[Quaywe]

Cheers is a little "Offy" on LL opposite St Thomas More Hall. It's small and doesn't stand out but the service really is friendly.

[Kathryn]

I thought Cheers was the one on LL

Lovely staff prob the friendliest on LL

[Keef]

Kathryn, you thought right, Cheers is the one on LL. Think someone was mixing up Cheers and The Drum.

[Kathryn]

I think mightyroar might have a little bit more to say about their experience in the drum

[Xanadustar]

I HEART the Cheers boys, absolutely lovely. And they have a (seldon seen) resident cat.

[Bony Fido]

That cat is a bloomin fruitcake!

[TillieTrotter]

Anyone eaten in the new style Drum yet?

[dulwichmum]

Myself and Freya had enormous scrummy Danish pastries there on Saturday morning.

The place was full of mature new mummy types insisting on Soya Milk Latte and various confections for their children which were manufactured in a nut free environment. I am not exaggerating at all - just for a change! Four out of five of them had diet related allergies! The one with the nut allergy decided to throw caution to the wind when she saw how super the pastries appeared - which is alarming, because (and I do know a little about this subject) anaphylactic shock is not something you can decide to just put up with because you fancy some cake!

The staff smiled on throughout the requests, even when one mother asked that the milk steaming appliance not be used for a half an hour as it was upsetting darling Hugo!

The lovely waiting staff desserve a medal.

DM

[TillieTrotter]

I used to help out in there a year back and I can tell you it can get quite depressing when you hear a two year old demand a soya milk baby chino in an imperious manner!

[flong]

dulwichmum Wrote:

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> The place was full of mature new mummy types

> insisting on Soya Milk Latte and various

> confections for their children which were

> manufactured in a nut free environment. I am not

> exaggerating at all - just for a change! Four out

> of five of them had diet related allergies! The

> one with the nut allergy decided to throw caution

> to the wind when she saw how super the pastries

> appeared - which is alarming, because (and I do

> know a little about this subject) anaphylactic

> shock is not something you can decide to just put

> up with because you fancy some cake!

It prompts me to wonder whether they were true allergies - which, as you mention, may be life-threatening - or the fashionable ailments that are "intolerances"... no doubt disgnosed by dangling a crystal over the kiddies' stomachs at one of the alternative health practices that SE22 suddenly seems to be riddled with.

[Keef]

Sounds absolutely horrific!!!!!! :-S

[TillieTrotter]

But anyway, has anyone eaten there yet?

[dulwichmum]

Yes! We had Danish pastries and a croissant!

[TillieTrotter]

Its now a bistro!!

[SeanMacGabhann]

Resurrecting this ole thread as Mrs Mac and I went there last night to check out the bistro menu. I don't want to come over all Living South about it ("dish after dish was just lovely.. etc) but we did have 4 dishes and they were all totally gorgeous. Nothing was overly fancy (the black pudding, lardon and spiced apple compote was the closest to fancy and was well lush) but everything was top notch.

And the Peroni was on, which made a nice change ;-)

Recommended

(as were the glasses of red we had at G&B afterwards)

[Nero]

Ha. V good re the Living South shtick. Their reviews are hilariously bad. As if they are going to say 'not only was the food cold, uninspired and foul-tasting, but the service was slow and the prices were sky high'. Nero

[TillieTrotter]

Had the tagliatelle in there on Friday which was truly scrumptious.

[Keef]

Do they still charge ?3.50 a pint? :-S

[Jah Lush]

I was in there Saturday night Sean but didn't eat, although I must say the food smelt wonderful, spent most of the time outside as they now have a no smoking policy. Must eat in there soon though.