On Saturday night a large number of rather merry friends of mine decided on a late drink at the Sugar Lounge. Most of them were already in when Dennis was told that he couldn't get in as it was a private party. Dennis is black. Has anybody else had experiences like this and what can we do about it?
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I do accept what you say but it seems perverse in the extreme for a stroud green road business to act like this. Presumably the person who excluded your friend was acting on their own initiative.
Given Sugar Lounge's particular clientele and special relationship with local black artists and photographers this development could easily break their business if they don't deal with it.
The first step is to contact the owner/manager--whoever they are--and report this event. If they don't seem interested in dealing with the obvious problem there are easy direct action measures to implement.
Or did the door staff genuinely think Dennis was an intruder, and somehow this didn't get checked? It sounds unlikely, but so does the other scenario. All very odd, and with a nasty smell about it.
We had four jugs of mojito lastnight between five of us, which cost £100. You'd think that we'd be hammered. Not in the least*. A fact that I can only put down to it mainly being ice.
We ordered two lots of cold mezze - which was just dips. We had to ask for bread. When it came, it was two pitta breads, between six of us. They did come back to ask if we wanted more, but why did they need to ask when it was blatantly obvious?
I also object to us,a group of women, being addressed as 'Ladies' all night but the, quite frankly, rude staff. Patronising buggers.
*I am quite grateful not to have a hangover this morning, but that's not the point.
But I do have Ginger Facial hair, so it can't be that they are racist.