Inside 72 - selling up

[ratty]

I will be gutted as this is one of the places where me and big tony go when we want to get away from our wives! Best music in ED by a mile!

[Asset]

Isn't that because American beers are generally rubbish?

[Jah Lush]

American beer is weak as piss with a taste that is probably not disimilar to urine.

[KalamityKel]

one could hardly call american beer beer ;-)

[snorky]

IM am unimpressed - this is by far the best drinking place son teh strip

bad show!

I would buy it myself, but I dont have a clue abour running a bra

[snorky]

IM am unimpressed - this is by far the best drinking place son teh strip

bad show!

I would buy it myself, but I dont have a clue about running a bra

[lozzyloz]

You buy it I'll run it.

[Marmora Man]

snorky Wrote:

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> I would buy it myself, but I dont have a clue

> abour running a bra

can you undo one single handed?

[MrBen]

This is tragic. I know that change is a constant. But Inside 72 is unlike any bar I have been to in London. it is a treasure. Where else has such a good sound system and good tunes? Any new owners have to keep that up.

I'm genuinely worried that we face a string of bland bars without the quirks that have made East Dulwich a genuinely interesting place to go out in.

We need an Ark. Lets all get in it. Let us load it with our 3 wheel buggies, novelty coffee grinders, combat jackets and victorian properties and find a new land. A land with another Inside 72. And a Hannahs. I hear of a fabled place where they are establishing new colonies. And they call it Honor Oak.

WHO IS WITH ME??!

[TillieTrotter]

Only if I can be Mrs Noah.

[lozzyloz]

I fear Honor Oak will soon be under 30 ft of water as the ice caps continue to melt. Perhaps Crystal Palace is the new promised land.

[huncamunca]

feck

i am really tempted here, bu im afraid the booze might be too much of a temptation

[huncamunca]

aaaarg!

why am i posting as huncamunka ?

who is hunkamunka ?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!

[Peckhamgatecrasher]

Obviously schizophrenic or sloppy on the keyboard. Are you a C or a K?

[MadWorld74]

So the lease is for sale, does this mean that the bar will just be run under new management or does it mean it will disappear all together?

[MrBen]

I'm guessing they could change it into a shop...with a change of use? Don't think it would work as a restaurant as its too small. Is there any room to extend it? The best thing would be for someone local to take it on, keep it largely the same but make a few changes to make it good. I used to love the pop quiz in there.

It's interesting as all of these businesses selling up are a different proposition in terms of space, lease length etc. Any prospective buyer needs some kind of Macroban matrix to compare them on level terms!

For example: What does a weekly net income of ?4900 mean when quoted on the brochure? Is that net of rates? and a ?20K a year isn't too bad for rent on LL?

I hope Inside 72 remains in one form or another....

[Keef]

Went in for a couple of rums on Saturday evening. Was pretty busy in there, but definitely a bar that5 NEEDS smoke!

[Jeremy]

Just got back from holiday, not a very nice welcome home. Probably my favorite bar in ED. Wish I had a few (hundred) grand to buy it.

[Louisa]

It's so funny, when recession hits, and i've seen a few in ED, businesses just disappear and you end up with half the lane abandoned or waiting to be let for years on end. It's even more interesting now all these trendy little bars and quirky places are finding the ride tougher than expected, will the yummy brigade and wannabe claphamites finally be able to afford a propery in the SW postcode now that recession looms large and prices begin to fall? Not long to wait now my middle-class friends, get your bags packed and ready to go!

Louisa.

[TillieTrotter]

We can afford to wait it out Louisa.

[Cassius]

Some of us have grown 'with' the changes and adapted - some of us are of course just dinosaurs (or just plain sour) - and I know which type I am!!

[chuff]

Is under offer at the moment

chuff

[*Bob*]

Don't mind Louisa. She's still fuming after Foxton's undervalued her house.

Is there any more potential space to be had inside i-72? I suppose if there was they would have done something with it already.

[Keef]

I thought they were talking about opening another floor or going out back, but never happened.

On a similar thread, I popped in to Black Cherry on Saturday evening, and they had fliers on the tables saying they'd been turned down for permission to have outdoor drinking at the back, and they say they are the only bar to have been. The Bishop has an area out back, so I don't see why the cherry can't. Would be nice to take your cocktail outside for a fag and not have to watch the traffic go by.

[KalamityKel]

Maybe it's all getting a bit too "busy" out back down that way?