New Shops?

[Brendan]

Michael Palaeologus Wrote:

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> KFC or McDonalds or Burgerking

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> My reasoning for this is ...

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> OH MY GOD SEAN HAS GONE PURPLE!!! BREATHE MAN

> BREATHE !!!!!!!!!!

As long as they have a car park and a drive through so I can drive there from my house.

[AdaDoom]

I don't think it's going to be anything, as there hasn't been any work on it all year. It was originally going to be 5 small shops to be let out to anyone who wanted them though.

[buggie]

Keef Wrote:

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> Michael Palaeologus Wrote:

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> > KFC or McDonalds or Burgerking

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> > My reasoning for this is ...

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> > OH MY GOD SEAN HAS GONE PURPLE!!! BREATHE MAN

> > BREATHE !!!!!!!!!!

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> Would be nice to have some fast food available

> after 11pm after a few jars at The Plough! :)-D

The kebab shop on the parade of shops opposite The Plough wants to open after 11pm but the council won't let them!

[SeanMacGabhann]

They used to do Turkish pizzas - I like to think the council has the hump with them since they stopped doing them..

I wouldn't mind if one of the "5 shops" became a decent chipper

[Dez]

Good guess is that whatever it becomes will be tatty and down market. All the top marque businesses are moving in to the lower end of LL. Look at the Plough and its sorry state and being across the road from Barry House asylum hostel may not be advantageous. The Bombay Bicycle Club is the most up-market business we have up this end.

[SeanMacGabhann]

Whats the problem with plough dez? Hell of a lot better than it was 2 years ago surely

[Dez]

I must try it again SeanM thanks haven't been there for so long. My memory of it includes going in one evening with my dad who lived in Ireland at the time and us two were the only customers and with three bar staff it still took ages to get served. That doesn't happen in Ireland where even if it's three deep at the bar you'll get served immediately.

[SeanMacGabhann]

Dez - absolutely hear you. I've lived up this end for 8 years and have wanted that pub to be a good "stop in for a quick one after getting off the bus" for most of them. I used to try out the old Plough every 6 months and it was always bad - bad service, bad to non-existent food, bad vibes, bad carpet. Actually scratch that.. scary,life-sapping carpet

Anyway - since the refurb last year it's a different pub completely. The food isn't great (head-office Mitchel-Butler fare) but everything else about it is pretty great. The open-mic nights every month are well worth going along too. If you pop in some night I might even see you there

[Nero]

Evenin' all. I rang Tesco about nine months ago and was told that it wasn't going to be a Tesco mini-mart. Glad that there is some construction, but peeved that they've not cleared up the tagging on the front. If there were a phone number of the developers I'd've rung it.

[Dez]

OK SeanM perhaps I'll give the Plough a fair go one evening when it looks lively