Chango - New local gem alert!

[rMattos]

New local gem alert!
Just when we thought East Dulwich couldn’t get any better — a new café “Chango” has landed on the high street, and it’s all about empanadas! 🥟

This cosy spot is serving up golden, hand-crimped parcels packed with flavour — from classic beef and chimichurri to mouthwatering veggie options. Freshly baked, ridiculously moreish, and perfect with their strong coffee or a glass of Malbec 🍷☕.

[Peckhampam]

Why does this sound like an advertising blurb?

[Sue]

Why on earth would this shop choose to open almost opposite the only other shop in East Dulwich which is also "all about empanadas"? 

[rMattos]

Haha fair! Not an ad @Peckhampam  — just genuinely excited to have something new (and tasty) pop up in the neighbourhood. Thought I’d share in case others hadn’t spotted it yet. Always good to support local!

I agree with you @Sue, yeah it’s a bold move! Maybe they’re betting on empanadas becoming the next sourdough? In any case, nice to have options — curious to see how both do.

[alice]

Sly not bold

[Sue]

14 hours ago, rMattos said:

Haha fair! Not an ad @PeckhampamAlways good to support local!

But it's a chain, isn't it? I stand to be corrected.

The other shop is the local one, and I believe family run.

14 hours ago, rMattos said:

I agree with you @Sue, yeah it’s a bold move! Maybe they’re betting on empanadas becoming the next sourdough? In any case, nice to have options — curious to see how both do.

A "bold" move?

I'd call it a very cheeky move.

There is no way they could not have been aware of the other shop a few paces away across the road.

I have never had an empanada in my life, and didn't particularly feel a need to try one, but I will now be going out of my way to buy some from the original shop.

Some years back, a shop selling the same kind of things as Health Matters opened more or less opposite it. That was also very cheeky.

It didn't last long. People continued to support Health Matters (as they have done with the recent opening of Holland & Barrett). The new shop closed down.

[Insuflo]

48 minutes ago, Sue said:

I have never had an empanada in my life, and didn't particularly feel a need to try one, but I will now be going out of my way to buy some from the original shop.

Me neither. They’re essentially pasties, am I right?

[the_hermit]

Local (especially independent) businesses should do like Wheelers Oyster Bar in Whitstable and offer a discount to anyone who can show them a receipt from Chacarero dated the same day.

[Sue]

1 hour ago, Insuflo said:

Me neither. They’re essentially pasties, am I right?

Looks like it!

Though according to the OP, they are "golden, hand-crimped parcels  packed with flavour" 😀

50 minutes ago, the_hermit said:

Local (especially independent) businesses should do like Wheelers Oyster Bar in Whitstable and offer a discount to anyone who can show them a receipt from Chacarero dated the same day.

I don't understand. Admittedly my brain is functioning at a very low level at the moment.

Does that mean various local shops get together and agree to offer a discount to anyone who shows them a receipt from one of the other ones dated the same day?

I can't see what's in it for either of them, unless people shop somewhere they wouldn't otherwise have done just to get the discount.

Is it for vaguely  linked things, say cheese from a cheese shop, wine from another shop? Showing my age there. 

And then suppose it's always the same shop which people go to second to get the discount? What's in it for the first shop? People go there in order to get the discount in the second shop?

Edited 2 hours ago by Sue

[the_hermit]

It's local independent shops supporting one another.

[Sue]

2 minutes ago, the_hermit said:

It's local independent shops supporting one another.

I understand that, but I can't really grasp how it works in practice, but never mind 😵‍💫

[Insuflo]

1 hour ago, Sue said:

Looks like it!

Though according to the OP, they are "golden, hand-crimped parcels  packed with flavour" 😀

More of a Steak Bake kinda thing, then.

[alice]

If you’ve got four quid spare, go and try one. Myself, I like the mozzarella and spinach, but there’s no accounting.

[Insuflo]

Four quid! That’ll get me half a pint of lager in the EDT.

[Sue]

11 minutes ago, Insuflo said:

Four quid! That’ll get me half a pint of lager in the EDT.

Pints are better value 🤣

[teddyboy23]

£4 pound in poundland buys me pack of ham slices£1 pack of cheese slices £1 co op loaf of bread £1-80 .enough for 5days sorted.plus 20p change 😉

[alice]

You’re making your Work sandwiches right now then are you?