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Right-lovely cafe, corner Fellbrigg and Shawbury, quiet leafy hood, calm daylit ambience, nice staff . . . and brilliant non-dead-animal food. The red lentil soup is quite stunning. Shortish menu - like every other really good cafe and restaurant I ever went to.


And for louche late-lunchers like me, they serve til 6 (5.30 on Sun).


The competition? : Well, I was a Blue Mountain monkey for some years but that was long ago. The place seems trapped in a moment of its own past; and a recent bite there was literally without taste. Prettys is a great place, good food, generous portions, lovely staff. But they need to: step the cooking up to the next level (where is the rumoured new 2014 menu?), get more serious about offering vegetarian variety; and not offering a scrumptious range of soft puds (fools, crumbles, messes etc) to show off their fruit is a serious missed opportunity.


Have I ruined Cafe Le Brique Bleu by talking about it? Will I have to start queuing behind SE22 hipsters, and yummy-mums with their Hummer-buggies? Hope not. Just had to shout out for a great place and fantastic food.


Lee Scoresby

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It's Captured on The Rye Now. Coffee shop and art.


Not been in The Blue Brick in its veggie incarnation, but enjoyed the brekkie there in its previous life. I used to call it Stanley's ...as in Stanley Kubrick. I chuckled, naebody else did...



Jeremy Wrote:

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> Ah, Jacks. I remember when one of the owners threw

> a tantrum on here because it never seemed to be

> open - even when it was supposed to be.

The Little Corner of Bliss - well, exactly


Expected a few SQUARKS! from diehard Blue-Mountaineers or Pretty-ists, but I guess people know what.


HMBoab, favour us with ye ancient Cocker-knee Rhyming for the Blue M, Pretty's, Petite Chou, C Nero, Captured, can you ?


The thing about evenings, NWave, is that "the lovely Dan" (quote dancet) prepares it all fresh, a lot of time and energy: that back-room is cookin' in several senses even when the caf is nearly empty. (Poor chap's had an op and the BB is closed til Wed now.)


He'd have to have a partner second shift to do evenings - and the history of cafe > restaurant at night, even on Lordship, let alone off, is not good. Chris at Prettys tried it, and Mel at BM twice.


I guess this also means the Brick won't go on forever. 'While it lasts', like any fine eating establishment.


Aaaaaand for edcam: ?Shout out, shout out, SHOUT OUT!? - a Jamaican term, no? - such linguistic sensi-TIV-ity; get a grip old thing, and eat up yer veg.


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