The new look Forest Hill Tavern (II)

[TillieTrotter]

LOL

[Louisa]

Bob, I am actually a very happy jovial person, but places who take on this gastropub look and feel lose all identity and I dont feel you can have a laugh because everyone is grouped together round tables eating seabass and drinking mineral water listening to music, it's hardly a knees-up is it?

I actually go to the Hope in Peckham sometimes.. or even better, the Montague Arms which is fabulous...

[MadWorld74]

Louisa

If you think clearing out the drug dealing p*ss heads that used to regularly deal/brawl in the FHT, is going to make the place dull and lifeless.....I'd sure hate to drink in any boozer you actually liked!!!!

[Louisa]

OMG ... pissheads in a pub? whatever next?!! and I disagree about drug dealers, that sort of activity goes on in all sorts of places, including more often than not these indie style music pubs, so dont tarnish the FHT as it was for that! (that's if it did have a problem with drugs which i've never heard of before).

[Jah Lush]

Louisa, I remember when the EDT was an Irish pub back in the 90s and it was a shit hole. I practically lived in that pub between '83 and '87 and it's only over the last couple of years or so that I've started going back in there now and then.

[MadWorld74]

I was just feeding back what the owners of the new 'dull and lifeless' FHT have said about it. They have had to bar alot of the 'locals'.....for the drug dealing offences. And yes p*ssheads in pubs are welcome, but not the type who sware non stop and glare at you if you walk within a certain radius of 'their' table....there's drunk and there's drunk.....

[dulwichmum]

Louisa Sweetie,

"Ermm actually not just the castle, in fact for those of us who were around here pre 2000 (probably just me currently) the now apparantly trendy EDT also used to have live Irish music because it was an Irish pub, and even knew the guy who played sunday afternoons in there!"

If you read what people say on the forum you would see that people like Keef are actually from East Dulwich, as are IvemetJimmy, and Mr Piers, Sean MacGabhann, JahLush et al, have lived here for an age. I myself moved to East Dulwich in 1988. Have you ever considered a rabbit? Pets really can have a very soothing influence on the temprament (don't forget the batteries)...

DM

[TillieTrotter]

ooh DM, you are getting a real brazen hussy. UP with the rabbit!!!!>:D

[Louisa]

DM I do have a couple of pets, one of which lives in the drawer next to my side of the bed, and yes I also have replacement batteries! (and god do I need them) :)

[dulwichmum]

Louisa sweetie,

Well, now that you have talked about your pet (ahem...) in such glowing terms, I shall just pop down Lordship Lane and get one myself! Any good er... pet shops in the environs?

DM

Lovely Tillie, I am dreadful, I know...

[Louisa]

..and yes I am well aware most of the people on here have been around ED for sometime... again it isnt a revelation my love!

[mockney piers]

*ahem* so to speak *ahem*

quick quick, back on topic!!

Soo we're agreed Louisa isn't going to be going there anytime soon, but totally entitled to her opinion and choice of venue. I for one won't ever go to the Vale, have I ever mentioned that? ;)

[MadWorld74]

Dont' ever go to the Page 2, have I ever mentioned THAT?

[dulwichmum]

Yes fair enough Mockney - The Vale - mmm, and I shall only go to The Castle if I would like to get murdered...

[MadWorld74]

back on thread...the FHT will take time to get some atmosphere in there. Bit new and smelling of paint at the mo, but it'll find it's feet and the kithen opens this weekend with a brand new menu!

[Jeremy]

What's wrong with Page 2?

[Louisa]

page 2 of this thread? or is that yet another local trendy bar? lol

[Chantoozie]

Louisa Wrote:

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> Bob, I am actually a very happy jovial person, but

> places who take on this gastropub look and feel

> lose all identity and I dont feel you can have a

> laugh because everyone is grouped together round

> tables eating seabass and drinking mineral water

> listening to music, it's hardly a knees-up is it?

>

1. I don't think the FHT has a 'gastropub' identity - it just looks and feels like a smartish pub now.

2. Believe me, people were knocking back pints there on Sunday night, not sipping mineral water. just like in "the good old days"!

3. There are different types of music for different vibes. What we did on Sunday was pretty mellow music which yes, some people sat and paid attention to (shock! horror!) - possibly coming to the pub specifically because we were performing - and which others seemed to enjoy as background music while they chatted to their mates. I totally appreciate both types of audience (I can fall into either category myself on a night out), and it was a great mix of both at the FHT. Not all gigs have to be full-on 'knees ups' you know - and the world of music would be very boring if they were!

[MadWorld74]

Well I may have caught it on a bad day. I drink wine. That is not the pub to go into if you want a glass of wine.

[Jeremy]

Louisa Wrote:

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> page 2 of this thread? or is that yet another

> local trendy bar? lol

Yep, Page 2 is a pub in Nunhead. Probably not your kind of place, Louisa - and obviously not a favorite of MadWorld either!

[SeanMacGabhann]

My doesn't everyone seem ingood form today

If anyone does go to the petshop, can they ask if they have room for a few owls? We are up to our necks in them over in The Quiet Room

[Nero]

I am really trying hard to get this owl thing. I have googled galore on MP's advice, but don't get it. I'm prob not missing that much anyway. Nero :-S

[Keef]

I quite liked Page 2 on the one occasion I went there....

Louisa and DM, there has been talk on the forum of an organic sex... sorry, I mean PET shop.... Good Idea??? ;-)

I am indeed "old skool", and remember all the pubs as they used to be... However, as I lived in Liverpool between 1996 - 2001, I did notice a bit of a change when I got back... That said, I think most of the changes have actually happened in the last 3 or 4 years. Foresters, Magdalla, Inside72 (???)... The EDT had changed in 2001, but has changed several times since!

One that is never mentioned, is The Uplands. Now that was a real back street boozer, and not a particularly nice one from what I remember / what my dad has said. However, in it's last couple of years as a pub, it had a really nice fella running it, and it was a nice place for a pint. Since the refurb, it has been sh!t!!!! Although the French lady (Mairead???) who was there for a while was lovely.

In my opinion, that's the worst change of anywhere in ED.

[*Bob*]

George Bush speaking about Al Gore: "This guy is so far out on the environmental extreme, we'll be up to our necks in owls and every American will be out of work."

[Keef]

Well spotted Bob!

We watched an Inconvenient Truth last night.