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"Nestled in the hip but quintessential London village of East Dulwich sits the historic Victorian Parisian bistro, Le Chardon"


This is in Time Out's "Today's Great Offers".


Tried to link to it but realised I was just linking to my email inbox :))


ETA: Well, clearly somebody is taking the piss .... :)) But is it Time Out, or is it Le Chardon?

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KidKruger Wrote:

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> Let's get like 30 of us and all book one entire

> night there, paying by discount vouchers.


xxxxx


:)) :)) :))


I have been to Le Chardon on a Time Out voucher, and wouldn't go again.


Gurkha's Flavour in Forest Hill is good value on a voucher, though :)


But my point was about the flowery language used rather than the offers themselves, which are occasionally very good.

Does anyone take Time Out's view, as 'word' anymore


No, unless you're slightly out-o-touch already, I suppose


One other thing that vexes me. Why come all the way to London, in your best glad rags,then end up eating in an Aberdeen Angus Steak house


Is there an Aberdeen Angus Steak house in Aberdeen, if so i'd love to go

Ha! Jeremy, 1985 was possibly the one and only time I ate at an Aberdeen Steak House. Probably the one on Tottenham Court Road too. I make better steaks at home. Probably why I've never been back. I pass it often and I'm genuinely puzzled how the hell it's still there.


As for Time Out's flowery language - since when has East Dulwich been a village? The village is a village, East Dulwich is just another part of the hamlet that is Dulwich. Mind you, so's Dulwich Village.

On the front page of the email it said full price was ?58 and sale price was ?59. Clicking on the advert the true version of half price appeared. To be fair to TimeOut l have taken advantage of their offers to shows and events and have not been disappointed. I shall always have a soft spot for TimeOut because l met MrRose through Lonely Hearts there through an advert l placed twenty five year ago.... Got him half price too.

And while we are at it...


TGI Fridays, who the hell eats there ?


Me, in 1985 admitidly, with a mate of mine who looks like Humphy Bogart. His trousers split right up the arse that day, so he sat the in a belted Burberry mac, eating a Ceasar Salad and drinking Fitou


Funny what sticks in your mind

To be fair. Before the mass internet (pre-1998ish?) , when you were all in your 20's and didn't have the latest "hip" places at the touch of a finger? you've all ended up abroad and in some cities equivalent of Aberdeen Angus steakhouse because you were hungry and new and it was central and it looked half welcoming.


All those places need are a few people like that every day and they'll keep going?..


Only a matter of time before some hipster buys that chain, reinterprets it and it becomes the next big kitsch revival thing?.

MrBen Wrote:

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> To be fair. Before the mass internet

> (pre-1998ish?) , when you were all in your 20's

> and didn't have the latest "hip" places at the

> touch of a finger? you've all ended up abroad and

> in some cities equivalent of Aberdeen Angus

> steakhouse because you were hungry and new and it

> was central and it looked half welcoming.

>

> All those places need are a few people like that

> every day and they'll keep going?..

>

> Only a matter of time before some hipster buys

> that chain, reinterprets it and it becomes the

> next big kitsch revival thing?.


You're right, they cling on thanks to out-of-towners overwhelmed by a trip up to London or looking for something all the family can eat. Steakhouses were fashionable in the mid to late 70s, when the steak (complete with sauce of choice) was preceded by a prawn cocktail and followed by black forest gateau, and a salad bar was a novelty.


You could be right about the retro reinvention thing, too. Last night in Brixton I saw someone out for the evening in Dexy's dungarees with one strap off the shoulder and a pair of plimsolls. I laughed so hard I nearly fell off my bike.

Robert Poste's Child Wrote:

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> Last night in Brixton I saw someone

> out for the evening in Dexy's dungarees with one

> strap off the shoulder and a pair of plimsolls. I

> laughed so hard I nearly fell off my bike.


Your 'retro' sit up and beg bike, with a front basket?


Or your 'ironic' shopper/fixed where RPC ?


:)

Sea Bag I am going to take you to an aberdeen angus steakhouse one night. And we are going to dine on "haystack" onions and Diane sauce. With Angus beef being amongst the best in the world and right on our doorstep, you'll be glad to know that most of it is frozen and flown in from Argentina.

Seabag Wrote:

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> Robert Poste's Child Wrote:

> --------------------------------------------------

> -----

> > None of the above, just a slightly battered

> > middle-of-the-road hybrid, bit like its owner!

>

> Tee Hee

>

> Nice!

>

> :)


Hmm.

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