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Judging by Vogues' Best Summer Bars which is a national review of bars no less


Tulse Hill and Peckham are the coolest areas in South London with the Railway Tavern in Tulse Hill


and Frank's in Peckham being the hubs.


http://www.vogue.co.uk/blogs/the-culture-edit/2012/05/best-summer-bars-london-and-uk


I would also say West Norwood is starting to attract the more arty types too as places like Herne Hill

and Dulwich become increasingly gentrified.

MrBen Wrote:

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> East Dulwich was cool between 2002-2004 when it

> was "on the turn". Camberwell is now way cooler.



Camberwell's always been cooler. ED is cool lite at best. There are and have been some decent bars/pubs but hipster behave, most of its residents are just not that cool its just 30 something middle class Londoners. Nothing wrong with that but it!s all thoroughly straight and predictable. The cool label for SE22 has me chortling muchly.

???? Wrote:

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> Camberwell's always been cooler. ED is cool lite

> at best. There are and have been some decent

> bars/pubs but hipster behave, most of its

> residents are just not that cool its just 30

> something middle class Londoners. Nothing wrong

> with that but it!s all thoroughly straight and

> predictable. The cool label for SE22 has me

> chortling muchly.


I used to be cool. I realised I no longer was when I moved from Camberwell to ED. Also when I started fondly reminiscing about once being "with it" while settling down to a takeaway and a bit of Poirot on ITV3.

I guess Camberwell was "cool" back in 2001 for a couple of years. East Dulwich has never really been "cool".


"Cool" places tend to be really shit though, so happy to avoid. Also, the people that make a place "cool" (arty types usually) get priced out once the "cool" rep gets around, and they move on to make another place cool, whilst the area they've left just tries to remain "cool".

Jeremy Wrote:

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> Otta Wrote:

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> > "Cool" places tend to be really shit

>

> Dalston being a prime example...


I was on a bus in Dalston last night. Hairy-faced hipster sharing his ?70 bottle of whisky with teenage dub-steppers, who reciprocated with their Disaronno, Smirnoff and Captain Morgan. Genuinely great moment - and I learned what twerkers are. Then I went for an awesome Mexican, complete with Mariachi band.


Dalston's not shit.


And Shoreditch isn't shit. And New Cross isn't shit. And Peckham isn't shit. There are tw@ts everywhere (hey, anyone read this forum?) But I can't think of a single place where the lunatics have genuinely taken over the asylum.

Hey, New Cross is one place I have most definitely "done". Spent most weekends of my teens in either The Venue, The New Cross Inn, The Amersham Arms, or The Rose Inn (now a hobgoblin or something). It was very rough around the edges in those days, but now it seems a bit more up and coming.
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