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A Virgin Active gym might be alright - you could use that as a selling point for the flats, as there are plenty of bars/shops/restaurants already. Already one in Crouch End though, maybe too close?
The piece od Cod i had on friday was marvellous..
@ tosscat - bet you're a saveloy man aren't you?
The main problem is that they tend to fry in oil rather than dripping and even when they do fry in dripping the batter mix is never that good.
Used to live in the north east where there are some outstanding fish and chip chops and even a 'bad' one would be much better than either Tollingtons or Toffs.
I think there's a lot more involved in doing fish and chips right than the other takeaway foods which means treating it as a business and not really caring shows in the taste much more than with kebabs etc.
By the way unaesthetic I think the savaloy has some nutmeggy or macey spice in it which is what makes it different to a normal sausage.. For some reason they are sometimes called 'smokies' in the North, or is that a slight variation?
And smokie is also street slang for a sheep carcass that has been flame cooked with the fleece still on (apparantly they're illegal and often made from rustled sheep - I know thanks to watchdog tv programme circa 2000)
I'm not sure why I'm even posting this.
The fish was a very unusual shape and had a hard black bit on the batter about a centimetre wide and twice as long (how did they manage that??), and it was too greasy which often happens when the dripping has only just been added to the fryer.
The chips were really good though. Maybe I was unlucky, I've only been once.
Def prepared to give it another chance becuase I might have just been unlucky and ended up with a skanky piece of fish that once.
I am engaging an agent to deal with the letting in the next few days.
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Vista
That's disappointing. Did you show them the levels of enthusiasm in this thread?
@underscore - I've only ever had chips from there (it's round the corner from my office and I sometimes grab a bag of chips post-pub), so can't pass comment on the quality of the fish. I might give it a go and report back. The chips are great though.
oh, wait, what?
aren't there enough starbucks, prets and marks'n'sparks? i'm totally rooting for independent retailers of quality …whatever… and the chains can go take a number. for about half of last year (before the economy imploded) every other news report seemed to be about how faceless and identical every high street was becoming. and when a credit crunch comes along and knocks out a couple big name stores, every high street in the country has an identically-shaped hole in it.
Its not like we are talking about Church Street with nice little shops and delis - then I could understand the argument against chains.
Id like somewhere to get nice food and bread. I hate Tescos food - it is tasteless and grown in airport sized warehouses with giant chickens running around.
just as there are only so many identikit chains a street can support, there is also a limit on the number of chicken feet and/or junk shops an area can sustain (unless they're all fronts for something).
clearly whatever comes needs to be *good* and *successful*. if it's crap and successful, like a starbucks or a sainsburys local, it'll be a detriment to the area. if it's good and a failure, then there's another empty shop-front waiting for the chicken feet or the faceless chain-stores. but then we'll only have ourselves to blame...