Comments on Brockley Central: The Brockley Mess - coming soon

I take it you're chief cake baker?!

2009-09-14T16:48:56.090+01:00

I take it you're chief cake baker?!

opening day is tomorrow! :D and i know for a fact ...

2009-09-14T16:26:28.871+01:00

opening day is tomorrow! :D
and i know for a fact there will be excellent cake there :)

Can't see it opening today. There are boxes everyw...

2009-09-14T13:14:04.748+01:00

Can't see it opening today. There are boxes everywhere inside and a shop-fitter seemingly up to his neck in screws and wood shavings.

So anyone been in yet - i believe it opened today?...

2009-09-14T12:08:39.888+01:00

So anyone been in yet - i believe it opened today?? Cant wait to try it.

Monday is tomorrow.

2009-09-13T22:52:46.262+01:00

Monday is tomorrow.

Well has it opened yet ???????!!!!! Rob

2009-09-13T22:24:44.320+01:00

Well has it opened yet ???????!!!!!

Rob

I believe it is opening on Monday.

2009-09-12T15:44:33.206+01:00

I believe it is opening on Monday.

from AA gill in The Times re Saatchi's new joint i...

2009-09-12T10:14:45.607+01:00

from AA gill in The Times re Saatchi's new joint in Chelsea

"Mess is a hostage to fortune. Call a restaurant Mess and it is asking for trouble. Critics don’t look gift names in the mouth. In fact, we try to avoid looking anyone in the mouth. It’s been called Mess because it’s on the site of the old Duke of York’s barracks on Chelsea’s King’s Road."

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/life_and_style/food_and_drink/eating_out/a_a_gill/article6608814.ece

Sitrep anybody? On the design front, I can make ...

2009-09-08T22:15:12.111+01:00

Sitrep anybody?

On the design front, I can make out some patchwork tiling inside, and the shopfront's been painted that pastel turquoisey number - so all good so far - but the estimated date of opening is...?

Or in my case, all of it!

2009-08-24T11:47:50.707+01:00

Or in my case, all of it!

After all cake doesn't travel well - like French b...

2009-08-24T11:12:20.618+01:00

After all cake doesn't travel well - like French bread. By the time you are home from the boulangerie you have to go back - as you have nibbled away half the loaf on the journey!

That sounds enticing but I only live a minute or t...

2009-08-24T09:06:14.394+01:00

That sounds enticing but I only live a minute or two away from the Brockley Mess site, so Telegraph Hill is a comparative trek. What we need up this end of Brockley is local cake for local people.

There is cake and ice-cream as well - I called rou...

2009-08-23T22:10:31.663+01:00

There is cake and ice-cream as well - I called round shortly after posting. And come more wintery weather they plan do move on to warming soup and possibly curry. Note that that they are not operating on Mondays - need one day off!

there was a sign at the very top end of the park t...

2009-08-23T20:53:59.119+01:00

there was a sign at the very top end of the park the only bits i could remember were 11-5 everyday except monday, brick lane bagels and home made lemonade.
sounded good.

There are the people who have opened up in the Tel...

2009-08-23T16:00:28.293+01:00

There are the people who have opened up in the Telegraph Hill park, operating a cafe out of a van the way Pistachios used to do - I think they might do cake...

Well, they have a nice new awning up.

2009-08-23T10:56:32.081+01:00

Well, they have a nice new awning up.

Any further news on this? I'm in the mood for cak...

2009-08-23T10:45:40.424+01:00

Any further news on this? I'm in the mood for cake.

I don't care whether it's vege or not, as long as ...

2009-08-05T18:23:08.589+01:00

I don't care whether it's vege or not, as long as it's not the same boring food as so many other places that call themselves 'cafes' serve! I want something interesting and everything to be home made - baked beans are fine as long as they don't come out of a can, crispy potatoes but not deep fried hash browns from a freezer etc.

4x4 I completely agree with eggs Benedict and florentine - yum.

What else could we gently persuade them to put on the menu?

I really liked the old decor; you could lose yours...

2009-07-29T03:31:27.599+01:00

I really liked the old decor; you could lose yourself in there for an afternoon in a place strangely, strongly and beautifully reminiscent of American independent coffee shops, like Slave to the Grind in Bronxville NY.

I don't care. I eat Mung Beans and I'm proud...

2009-07-22T16:10:10.837+01:00

I don't care. I eat Mung Beans and I'm proud...

lol. 1 miaow to the cat!

2009-07-22T15:09:54.471+01:00

lol. 1 miaow to the cat!

HH, I think you've just fallen for The Cat Man's c...

2009-07-22T14:59:03.402+01:00

HH, I think you've just fallen for The Cat Man's cunning plan to find out who knows what colour mung beans are.

Eh? Since when were mung beans pink?! You colour...

2009-07-22T14:53:41.832+01:00

Eh? Since when were mung beans pink?! You colour blind?

Yes, mung pink perhaps...

2009-07-22T14:34:11.106+01:00

Yes, mung pink perhaps...

A brighter interior might also deter some of the s...

2009-07-22T14:29:06.824+01:00

A brighter interior might also deter some of the shadier characters who liked to hang out in Moonbrows [sic]