mare street
hackney central
london fields
the canal
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BIENVENUE
i miss hackney
- i’ve still not been to The Dove yet so we should do that sharpish.
- if you like to swim head for the all-new LIDO
- as you may well know Mare St. has many good Vietnamese eateries. Tre Viet is my fave so far.
- broadway market is still ridic. expensive good despite/regardless of a certain ‘mono(boho)culturalism’ in both traders and clientele
How is the new place, Hand?
i went to tre viet last night but it was confusing, because there are two places called tre viet, and they’re both across the street from each other. the one i went to was good!
xpost it’s really nice, like in the “uh how in the hell did we manage to do this?” kind of way.
steve i just heard some hardcore (as in lenny dee) in hackney today, bumping out of a white van. the dream is alive!
Can’t wait to see this.
Stelfox and I both also rate Tre Viet. H3l3n rates Green Papaya. One is spoilt for choice. Up by Sinkah’s is also Bohemia Place which pretty much does what it says on the box.
i recommend dumpster diving at the iceland on mare st
You would!
we ate salmon for dinner every night!!!
Green Papaya’s pretty good too. nice tilapia
that iceland just hooked me up with a big bag of frozen corn tonight! it was good.
the parking lot behind my building contains three old carriages. they have no seats. they’re covered with tarps, but in a kind of half-ass way, so the rain gets in. it’s odd to me that there are horse-drawn carriages behind my building, but it’s reassuring too, because in the coming oil apocalypse i can find someone with a horse, and we can both take to the open road, away from the burning cities.
Someone told me today that Tracer and Emma were my closest ILXors, again :)
If you’re circumscribed by the landmarks at the top of the thread, then.. you’re probably REAL close! I haven’t found any real hidden treasures, Broadway Market is nice but hipster infested. Emsk used to live around here, up on Queensbridge, she should be able to fill you in.
There’s a pub up north, the Eclipse on Blurton St.
THE DOVE = AWESOME
TRE VIET = AWESOME
DALSTON SHOPPING CENTRE = AWESOME
THE GEORGE = AWESOME DESPITE WHAT MISS AMP SAYS
HACKNEY = AWESOME
I LOVE HACKNEY
THE RIO = AWESOME
LDN FIELDS = AWESOME
HACKNEY LIBRARY = AWESOME
BROADWAY MKT = AWESOMELY BOURGEOIS
LIDO = NOT AWESOME AS I CAN’T SWIM
THE FISH SHOP ON THE WAY TO THE BIG TESCO = AWESOME
THE THEATRE WHERE THE SQUATTERS DISH OUT FREE SOUP EVERY SUNDAY = AWESOME
THE NO 38 BUS = AWESOME DUE TO ALL-SINGING ALL-DANCING HACKNEY KIDZ (SOUNDTRACK = RIHANNA)
THE GRAFFITI WHICH SAYS “TONY ROMANOFF IS IKE AND TINA TURNER” = AWESOME
MANGAL = AWESOME
THE ARCOLA = UM INTERESTING
THE TURKISH SUPERMARKET ON RIDLEY RD = AWESOME
is that mixtape spot still over in dalston??
Lido is right across the street from H3l3n’s place.
Teh George = great jukebox informed by two or three generations of music-biz “indie” “kids”. But also must not forget Pub In The Park and the Carhartt outlet store.
Want to hit some pub and vietnamese action on thursday, hand?
thursday = I’m audi 5k
what do they call dumpster diving in london? skip ripping?
lex thank for your top 20 list of awesomeness!
a guy selling aubergine leather trousers yesterday tried to convince me to go to a place called bistrotek.
audi 5k, I don’t get your new east lahndan lingo?
yay! ilx hipsters calling out ‘bourgeois’ parts of hackney!
There’s a pub up north, the Eclipse on Blurton St.
But closer is Biddles on Lower Clapton Rd, near the PORTICO which along with the Round Chapel gives weight to the famous slogan “See Clapton And Die”. I’m not aware of any other interpretations...
there is Tony Romanoff graffiti at the top of my road as well. Have you seen him? Do you know him?
Tracer, you have left the Lambeth area? Then you have betrayed us and you can no longer be my friend. :-(
the “DALSTON! WHO ASKED U” graffiti is pretty cool too.
i don’t remember posting any of that last night? i stand by it though
yes, i now live off mare street, equidistant between the big tesco and the lidl. there will always be, however, a little piece of me in brixton. [insert joke about fingernail clippings]
yay for enrique pompousness once again
yay for anon haters!
who don’t know what ‘pompous’ means.
enrique otm but i don’t think anybody was actually denying that they were part of the problem heh
You are dead to me now, Hackney boy.
Anon? im logged in.
Perhaps i should have said puffed up with self-importance
or just tedious and boring. whatever works for you dude
he doesn’t even know who you are etc.
anyway, Ocean has been staging the odd event now and then lately i notice. good to see it actually being used.
there are still too many derelict/disused but listworthy buildings in the area. the old town hall for example.
i don’t even know who you are, and i’m still right
xpost
I like Clapton more than Hackney proper. But then i kinda like Stamford Hill.
Homerton is still prety cheap right?
The primark got nothing on the Peckham one though
Broadway Market is really bizarrely gentrified considering a lot of what’s around it. I remember having post-rave Sunday lunch with Gareth and the Lex outside one of the cafes there. There was a pashmina-wearing 30-something trendy urbanite couple sitting there having lunch only to be cornered by two terrifying alcoholic women who appeared from god knows where and started eating the tapas from their table with their fingers and going ‘urgh, that’s disgusting’. The couple were so alarmed they got up and left.
It was the singularly most obnoxious behaviour I have ever seen in my life but also weirdly fascinating to see a place resist gentrification like that.
Anyway, I am willing to forgive Mr and Mrs Hand for moving north of the river seeing as we get Chris and Vicky round our way very soon. It’s a fair exchange.
the wetherspoons on the top of mare street is surprisingly nice.
broadway market is nice. good to see hymen’s shop still surviving round the corner though.
i was near mare st last night. don’t live round there: it is a pretty weird mix. did you get the sense the drunk women were consciously ‘resisting gentrification’?
xpost
I don’t go in for this London North/South divive/conflict personally, just a bit of fun as it may be.
It was the singularly most obnoxious behaviour I have ever seen in my life but also weirdly fascinating to see a place resist gentrification like that.
I like how you’ve practically characterised the trendy couple as New Hackney and the obnoxious alkies as Old Hackney here!
semi-consciously at best.
xpost
Yes, but the FT pubcrawl is going to be SARF LONDON this year apparently. Oh yes. (Even if by Sarf London I think they mean Borough, but still.)
I like how you’ve practically characterised the trendy couple as New Hackney and the obnoxious alkies as Old Hackney here!
In Old London everyone was smashed out of their face on gin all the time so I’m not far wrong.
Actually, that wasn’t the point I was trying to make, it’s just Broadway Market seems like more of a bubble than pretty much anywhere else in London and it was a bit weird to see that burst in such an unpleasant way.
You’re surely dramatising this too much Matt.
I commend Tracer’s bravery on moving to ‘the worst place to live in the UK’ (excellent reverse-psychology marketing here) anyway.
Perhaps Enrique would be happier if Times Square were still full of heroin addicts and prostitutes. Eh? Eh?
no no, i’m saying the opposite! i’m saying chill out, gentrifiers, you are the uh red ants of the urban landscape or something; but for god’s sake stop hating on your own.
i wasn’t hating!
Let us not forget The Sussex pub (Culford Rd) (as well as also any empty/run down house) for yr improv concert needs.
Bistrotheque is fun. It’s in Wadeston Street which is near all the cool galleries on Vyner Street and YES it is full of fashionistas. What of it?
we get Chris and Vicky round our way very soon
90 seconds’ walk from our house, no less! It’s brilliant.
We drove down Mare St last night—that’s the road with the Empire and the fairy-lit trees outside the...town hall, perhaps? Glitzy but strangely grim too. I can kind of see why people become attached to the place, though.
Does ILX have any representation in W/NW London? Kilburn, Harlesden, Willesden Green, all those places? It’s a real blind spot in my London knowledge.
glitzy??
Well, not in the rich sense, just a lot of attractive lights and facades but set against a gloomy road. I dunno, I was only passing in the car. It reminded me of Smethwick. Not really.
I remember when the Sussex was a proper Boozer. See also, the Talbot.
I’m in NW6 when not home for holidays but I hope I’m not there much longer. Also giaour is Kilburn I fink. I’m Zone One at heart.
Hackney Town Hall is pretty nice-looking. I don’t know what all the anti-gentrifiers are on about because the place has beautiful housing stock all over it for a reason—it was built as a middle-class ‘suburb’ back in the day. It’s not as if these are City types—and those are the people you should be worried about due to they don’t actually give a shit about others.
the Town Hall is wonderful inside (the upstairs rooms esp.—i took some photos during Open House weekend) so i don’t get why they are building new Mayor offices.
Alan T also relocated to Harlesden Garden Suburb early last year.
>> Does ILX have any representation in W/NW London?
Well, I used to live by Kilburn tube. But I wasn’t on ILX then.
Is Homerton the worst part of Hackney? My friend was going on about how rough it is this weekend. She lives in Willesden, not far from Church End, so I’m assuming it must be pretty bad if she won’t go anywhere near the place.
I used to live in Dollis Hill and then Finchley Road—can’t say I miss either, though.
Hey stranger! I liked your Finchley Road place. Good thing about FR and West Hampstead is that escape is easy.
I don’t like and am weary of Homerton but mainly just because I think it’s v ugly. A bit further East and you get artists bloc and nu riverside apartments within the industrial hinterlands. I’d rather go even further east to the Marshes and Lea Valley themselves tho.
weary = wary