What does East Dulwich lack?

[cazkid]

Just trying to find out some info about what east dulwich lacks in business terms, coffee shops, gyms, sandwich shops

any ideas?

anything that you had in your last neighbourhood but not in east dulwich that you miss?

would love to hear your response.

[Domitianus]

A decent gym. Fusion and EPS or whatever it is are SH**E!

A couple of building societies instead of the dreadful Barclays and HSBC.

Gun club, brothel and a shop that sells those sharp objects you can scatter on the ground to puncture the tyres of the horrific bugaboos!

[SCSB79]

Bit off topic but I was wondering how the bike shop on ED Road is getting on... I remember when moving to ED a couple of years ago and thought it would be a good business venture as there wasn't one... if only I had the drive, know-how and a bit of balls to do my own thing I could have been in there before them!!!!

[Burbage]

We've got no boatyard, and it's miles to the nearest abbatoir.

[dbboy]

fruit and veg merchant, and baker

[EmmaG]

A B&B or hotel please. I know about the Uplands, but their rooms aren't all en-suite and their double bed isn't big enough or firm enough for my parents - and it's above a pub!! We need a B&B with a choice of rooms and bed-sizes.

[KidKruger]

No record shop, apart from the weekend market stall.

Hardly anywhere to play pool or snooker.

No nightclub ?

No different Indian / South Asian restaurants (ie. they are all the same no variety, lik regional Indian).

[SeanMacGabhann]

Is that sarcasm? Surely between the multitude of corners shops. Pretty Traditional, and the guy next to the ED Warehouse, fruit and veg is covered?

Bakers maybe - I haven't tasted anything amazing from any of the bakers, cheap or expensive (although I'm partial to the bread in the Turkish shop opposite the Bishop)

[James]

Cash Converters. Greggs. Pentecostal church. Poundland.

[Peckhamgatecrasher]

Bike shop seems to be doing really well. They are trying to get permission to move into the old loo block on Peckham Rye because they need more space.

[EmmaG]

Yep, I'm with you on the Greggs. Also, we could do with a Carphone Warehouse and a Primark and a TK Maxx. A Waitrose please. Er, what else ... I'd like a full Marks and Spencer too.

[SMBJones]

A clone of me if possible!

B Jones

Station Manager

[LegalEagle-ish]

An Adventure playground and full-time youth club.

[Peckhamgatecrasher]

Amen to that!

[that was to Casey Jones, BTW, another post snuck in]

[SeanMacGabhann]

I think James had his tongue in his cheek Emma

Makes a change from [sniiiiiiiiiiiiip - Ed]

[PeckhamRose]

I second a good B&B. A simple 3 or 4 bedroomed B&B, not a fancy over expensive boutique hotel nonsense, but a good simple B&B. Perhaps if Foxtons were to close down that would be a nice place to have it!

And if everything we all ever needed was in ED we'd have no need to go around the rest of London. London's fab to explore!

OK then so how about a river?

[SeanMacGabhann]

But now I think about it maybe Emma was just joining in... if so, sorry Em

[Alabama]

b&b definately.

[GregI]

A repertory cinema- or something like the shortwave in Bermondsey square would be fantastic

p.s. is there a cobbler on Lordship Lane (no smart comments suggesting the east dulwich deli allowed)

[Muley]

A helipad, obviously. A stall selling freshly made felafel.

And a Mr Ben-type costume shop to try on outfits and have adventures.

In the meantime, I'm with Sean on the Turkish bread (try it with bacon and chilli pickle for the ultimate in fusion cuisine!)

[computedshorty]

?

[thebestnameshavegone]

An iMax. A guitar store. A Slug and Lettuce.

A venue on par with somewhere like The Luminaire on LL

A decent bar open til 2am with decent DJs

[Alabama]

There's one further down, Greg, near Elsie Road..

[Jeremy]

A nice B&B would be a good one - but maybe it would be hard to make it work with reasonable rates, given local house prices.

An indie cinema would be awesome. One which sells warm toffee popcorn, fresh smoothies, and cakes. And beer.

A record shop comes up time and time again, but much as it pains me to admit it, the local record shop we remember from our youths probably isn't a viable business these days - unless you combine it with games, electronics, DVDs, etc.

[PeckhamRose]

A motorcycle shop.

And a bigger motorcycle parking bay than the small one on North Cross Road which often gets full.