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(Date Posted:11/06/2008 6:54 AM)

Does anyone know why Sequel on Venn St has closed - lots of bars and restaurants around the area seem to be closing.
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RE:SEQUEL
(Date Posted:14/06/2008 8:13 PM)

I understand it is being refurbished.
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RE:SEQUEL
(Date Posted:16/06/2008 3:10 AM)

It was being gutted when I past the other day and the name has been painted over, so I assume it will have a whole new identity.  Not sure if it's still owned by the same guy that own's Rapscallion & The Oak.

We've got lots of cheapies but goodies, Pepper Tree, Carmen, etc and we have 409, Trinity, Upstairs at the other end of the market but we need decent middle level bistro-type places.  Metro is OK but not great and Gastro, to me anway, always promises more than it delivers.

Actually, we could do with a decent Chinese restauarant - it's one of the few flavours we don't have.  Wouldn't even mind a "Ping Pong", the dim sum chain that seems to be opening all over town.

Verso, is STILL closed.  Must be the longest reburishment ever.  Not sure if it's stalled but no sign of activity for a few weeks.
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RE:SEQUEL
(Date Posted:17/06/2008 3:49 AM)

I went past Verso at the weekend - it looked exactly the same as it did when it first closed.  Not something you might expect from a business that wants to get trading again as soon as possible.  It shows all the signs of having closed down for good to me.

Also, for Chinese, try Traders on North Street (opposite Virgin Active) - it's pretty good, and owned by the same people who run the Drunken Monkey in Shoreditch.
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RE:SEQUEL
(Date Posted:17/06/2008 8:43 AM)

Depends on what you mean by middle and cheap. Its relative. Nothing's ever cheap in Clapham. Businesses deliberately set up in Clapham simply because they believe they can charge locals a fortune. To my knowledge prices charged by Clapham's local cheapies  (reaturants and bars) are standard west-end prices or even higher.  Clapham is a very affluent area but there are lots of decent lower-middle income locals who are consigned to the Macdonalds and KFC's of this world or the little Jacket potato restuarant on the high street. Even O'Neil's prices are higher than in its other branches.
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RE:SEQUEL
(Date Posted:17/06/2008 10:23 AM)

If you go to "Pepper Tree" you can have two courses (each) and a bottle of wine for two and even including a 10% tip it's 32quid.  I think that's (very) cheap.

You could go just have a main course and a glass of tap and get out with spending 5 or 6 quid.

AND Sappho Mezze is still amazing value - you can have a ton of food for a tenner a head.

Equally you can go for dinner at Trinity and spend 200quid+ for two no problem.  (BUT to qualify that, you don't NEED to.  Their lunchtime offer is amazing value.)

Clapham can be as expensive or as cheap as you want.

BUT in the 50-60quid mark for two there is very little.  BUT I heard a "Tom's Kitchen", a la Tom Aitkens in Chealsea might be coming to Clapham - that's exactly the type of thing I am talking about.

J.
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RE:SEQUEL
(Date Posted:20/06/2008 12:15 PM)

Sadly I think Verso is no more - I was in there a couple of nights before it closed and the heating was off and the owner had let all the staff go - he said times were very tough (although he didn't say it was closing) - two days later it's shut.  If he was planning to re-open he surely would have posted a note on the window to let his regulars know.  Great shame.
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RE:SEQUEL
(Date Posted:20/06/2008 1:34 PM)

Verso closing is a great shame as many of the restaurants on Clapham Park road have also closed too due to insufficient custom and high rates. There seems to be foot traffic but not enough going into the restaurants, although the Grey goose seems to be bucking the trend and is doing quite well. Could be that people prefer to hang out more on the High Street.  

Is Lambeth Council doing anything to improve the business climate and attract new businesses to the area rather than stiffle them out with over the top rates?
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RE:SEQUEL
(Date Posted:23/06/2008 10:10 AM)

There's something new opening at the top of Clapham Park Road next to where Morel used to be.  It used to be the a newsagent but major gutting and refit job ongoing.  Looks like it could be an eatery of some kind.  Anyone got any information?
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RE:SEQUEL
(Date Posted:25/06/2008 3:29 PM)

It's going to be another hairdresser - a skanky looking one at that.  It would appear that Lambeth council are trying to make Clapham park Road the hair and nail capital of Clapham - these guys can't be charged the same rents as the eateries that are closing down surely ?  It doesn't stack up.

And Verso is now boarded up and the awnings down - who knows maybe another nail bar is coming !
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RE:SEQUEL
(Date Posted:26/06/2008 5:39 AM)

I think that's the old Nelsons, I meant the other side of Morel which was the newsagents.

How many nail bars and hairdressers do we need?  There must be 20+ in Clapham already!

J.
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