How much !

[Seabag]

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> I don't follow them on Twitter because I don't

> care for too much social media as previously

> stated. I just love their food. They have the most

> amazing buttery sausage rolls around.

>

> Louisa.

Buttery ? I think it's bakers margarine they use

[camberwell70]

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> > > Asda -12 for ?1

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> > 12 what?

>

> Does it really matter at that price?

It matters...at all costs!

[Earl Aelfheah]

boulangerie jade also charging ?1.50. For what it's worth, i think it's perfectly reasonable for an eat in cafe. They're big, proper buns and no, you wouldn't need to eat more than one.

[uncleglen]

On the escalator there was an ad with hot cross buns with bacon inside them....just goes to prove how tasteless and mass produced they are now that you have to slap bacon in them ...yummy

[Louisa]

I've seen this ridiculous ad that I think sainsburys (surprise surprise) have been promoting. Who puts bacon in a hot cross bun? More fad foodie crap aimed at hipster types.

Louisa.

[KidKruger]

If it was hand-reared organic honey-smoked bacon in the hot-X buns I'd be all for it, but not that super-thin almost see-through cheap Iceland bought kinda bacon.

[Seabag]

Bacon? No

But cheese YES

[Louisa]

Seabag we agree on something!!!

Cream/soft cheese for me, or even a nice Brie. Would compliment the raisens and orange peel perfectly.

Louisa.

[Earl Aelfheah]

No way. Toasted with butter and nothing else.

[Muley]

Louisa Wrote:

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> Seabag we agree on something!!!

>

> Cream/soft cheese for me, or even a nice Brie.

> Would compliment the raisens and orange peel

> perfectly.

>

> Louisa.

Brie. Brie? BRIE? Brie as in fancy, faffy, condescending, patronising FRENCH cheese?

What you want is a big chunky slice of proper Chedder in yer buns. What are you, a hipster or something?

[Louisa]

Muley Wrote:

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> > Seabag we agree on something!!!

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> > Cream/soft cheese for me, or even a nice Brie.

> > Would compliment the raisens and orange peel

> > perfectly.

> >

> > Louisa.

>

>

> Brie. Brie? BRIE? Brie as in fancy, faffy,

> condescending, patronising FRENCH cheese?

> What you want is a big chunky slice of proper

> Chedder in yer buns. What are you, a hipster or

> something?

I wouldn't eat the French muck out of principle. Somerset Brie is perfect, better than anything the French could make. Same goes for cheddar, has to be from Somerset with the "West Country farmhouse" label.

Louisa.

[uncleglen]

I agree, French brie is too salty and rubbery in texture....Somerset is much nicer- and the Cheddar...the cave-matured from Cheddar Gorge is the very best.

[NunheadBear]

?1.50 for a hot cross bun that size I don't mind! (See picture)

And let's assume Brick House pays the bakers the London living wage which I believe is ?9.40. I think pricing it at ?1.50 is a bargain!

Let's break it down, shall we?

According to this recipe http://www.bbc.co.uk/food/recipes/hotcrossbuns_397

it takes 2 hours to make 12 hot cross buns

2 x ?9.40 = ?18.80

Divided by 12 = ?1.566666666666667

And that's just labour. Rent, electricity and ingredients are missing!

[DulwichFox]

....it takes 2 hours to make 12 hot cross buns .. ?

Most of that time is Proving and baking..

They don't sit around on their backsides whilst that is taking place... they are doing other things...

DulwichFox

[holloway]

I wasn't too enamoured by my experience of the brick house. I ordered tea & toast, got the tea first and the toast about 10 minutes later. It also tasted bizarrely salty so I bought another tea. Did I get played...

[NunheadBear]

Of course they don't sit there and watch the dough prove. don't the do other pastry too? :)

[DulwichFox]

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> Of course they don't sit there and watch the dough

> prove. don't the do other pastry too? :)

I don't know if they do make their own Buns.. They might buy in... From where ever..

.. But like I said..(somewhere) I don't think ?1.50 is that expensive for a sit in..

DulwichFox.

[Seabag]

I think we've seen 'peak bun' in Crystal Palace

Nothing to fancy location wise and also a charity cafe, at Living Water Satisfies

Eat in 2.20

Out ?2.00

They were very nice looking HXB's

[Mick Mac]

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> I agree, French brie is too salty and rubbery in

> texture....Somerset is much nicer- and the

> Cheddar...the cave-matured from Cheddar Gorge is

> the very best.

If you go to the Cheese Block the French brie is amazing. Rubbery it certainly isnt.

[ruffers]

This seemed relevant..

Caf? owner leaves brilliant response to one-star TripAdvisor complaint about ?2 lemon water -

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/12099760/TripAdvisor-York-Bennetts-cafe-owner-leaves-brilliant-response-to-one-star-review.html

[maxxi]

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> > I agree, French brie is too salty and rubbery

> in

> > texture....Somerset is much nicer- and the

> > Cheddar...the cave-matured from Cheddar Gorge

> is

> > the very best.

>

> If you go to the Cheese Block the French brie is

> amazing. Rubbery it certainly isnt.

Indeed - the Brie de Meaux that sits on that back shelf threatening to ooze over the edge is a spreadable delight and truly one of life's joys.

[Rosetta]

Yes, to the Cheese Block Brie, sitting on the back shelf.

[Jules-and-Boo]

The Blackbird bakery in Herne Hill - ?2.50 for a croissant to eat in ....

I spent a fiver on two cakes :-(

[brezzo]

Er, a croissant is most definitely not a cake

[Jules-and-Boo]

well iced croissants are - be definition - not croissants, are they....