Adventure bar - East Dulwich (Lounged when no longer about same)

[LionelL]

I just returned to East Dulwich after a year away, disappointed to see the Claphamisation near completion and my favourite bar being turned into another cocktail bar with big steel beer taps of overpriced continental fizz. Agreed the music at Inside 72 was fantastic, alas the typical playlist on the Adventure Bar website looks about as imaginative as the interior design. Still, will come and check it out...during happy hour...

Bit of feedback to the guy on the thread involved with the bar (aside from the less commercial/overplayed music), if unlikely to do draft could we have some bottled ales in the fridge please?

[AcedOut]

+VENTURE: Plus Venture. I don't geddit'

[SeanMacGabhann]

+ = Add

[AcedOut]

Or a Positive Venture for the owners?

[JimmyD]

cross-venture? maybe it's a partnership?

[AcedOut]

Let's hope it doesn't turn out to be Don't Venture

[TheNewMrsH]

is it me or at first glance, does the sign not resemble the YMCA hostel sign?? It's awful... let's hope that when it does open the inside is better than the out!

[BlueOne]

Listen guys - I know you love the insular vibe you think you have created in ED, but seriously - this is LONDON - you all need to get a fcuking life. If you are so damn cool and demanding acceptance of YOUR WAY why are you unable to accept that there are people in SE22 who may not like the music and "atmos" you prefer?

A few years ago ED was 'transformed'. A lot of you did well from the regeneration of the area. Did you give a damn about what the original residents thought about your poncification of the area?

NEWSFLASH - some 'old school' locals aren't exactly OK with your 'new ways'. Now you are experiencing the next wave. So now you are getting a sense of how it feels to have what you thought was your community gradually ripped out from under your feet.

So a new bar. So called Claphamisation.

Progress - right?

[mamafeelgood]

i'm not bothered by london changing, far from it i have written numerous posts saying this. but i am allowed to comment when i think a place doesn't look good. surely it's not some sacred cow just as it's opening in a london suburb?

[Keef]

Strong words BlueOne, but a fair point in there!

[luddite]

i agree with blueOne

never a truer word spoken on ye old forum ........

and jeeeez you all need to get off 'tha' keyboard and get out into this fine city of ours

and if we bemoan the loss of certain local shops pubs and the like dont we need to support them .most of us have no idea of the costs involved in opening or indeed running a pub shop etc

[SeanMacGabhann]

methinks the people who spend most time on these keyboards are also the ones "out and about" in this fine city more n' most

:)-D

[Keef]

Innit!

[lorraineliyanage]

I'd only go for a drink there if they do pork scratchings and Nobby's Nuts

[macroban]

I was down that way today and I couldn't see any progress.

Is it actually going to open?

[eater81]

all I can say is that the mew management had better not leave the door open late at night and keep me awake, unlike the clowns that used to run inside 72. I was pleased to see it go, for that reason.

[eater81]

Just had a look at the "+venture bar" website. All I can say is this bar has the potential to be dreadful. Sanitised, commercial drinking marketed to the mass morons. If this place gives me any trouble with noise then I will have them shut down. Happily however I think their short sighted policy of only selling overpriced cocktails will be their down fall in this credit crunch era.

[a bit dizzee]

You sound nice, Eater81. You were seething Inside 72 dared to occasionally leave the door open - leading to the distant sound of joy and laughter drifting into your miserable world - and now you already wish ill on a new business about which you know, literally, nothing.

Perhaps, given your attitude to urban noise, Herefordshire may be a better bet. May I suggest Eastnor, although you may want to plan a week's long trip to Umbria around The Big Chill.

[SeanMacGabhann]

If you live on one of the busiest South London thoroughfares and are bothered by noise then surely the plan is to move away from the main drag and not shut everything down Eater81?

[Rhinestone Cowboy]

Bring on the cocktails I need to get smashed....

[TJS]

I look forward to this place opening and will without a doubt be enjoying some drinkes in there, maybe a few too many....which without doubt with lead to a large noise increase....

[AcedOut]

How about a 'Credit Crunch' cocktail!? It would be a great one to drown our sorrows to when the city redundancies finally hit full force.

It should be multi-layered, with a straw to drink from the bottom up. The cherry should be placed at the bottom of the glass, rather than the top! Cream should come in a separate glass...

[danrees]

As it happens, the Hide Bar on Bermondsey Street SE1 is doing a cocktail at the moment for ?4 called the Credit Crunch!

[TobyJackson]

Opening night this Thursday 28th August! 2 for 1 Cocktails all night. More details on the What's On In East Dulwich section of the forum.

Hope to see you there,

Toby

[andypandy]

I drove past the newly erected sign and thought that we'd just got a new Youth Hostel Association such was the passing resemblance of the logo. Still It's great to welcome another meat-market bar, never know when my wife will walk out.... Not my thing but good luck all the same....