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Would be very very good if they could move people inside after a certain hour, eg 10pm, and for their doormen to actively police people hanging around outside.
There were a lot of police hanging around this evening and sometimes talking to them but they didn't seem to do much?
I appreciate that Sugar Lounge have made efforts to improve things (but please if you employ a door person, please let them be more active and not so passive) and it's ironic this comes after a day of positive vibes from me about them. I realise it was rogue party of idiots, but you really need to control your patrons. I ran a club in the 90s with a few other people that had 700 plus people attending in a dodgy club in Hackney and we controlled it. One complaint from neighbours and we dealt with it. And we had two amazing doormen, but we paid them well.
I've spoken to other neighbours and we're not willing to tolerate tables and people left outside late at night. I wish you well but if you proceed to not respect your neighbours you will go the way of other pubs/bars like Chapter One round here. We won't respect the way you treated us last summer and we're organising police, neighbours and environmental health already.
Again, I wish your business well, but please don't take us for granted!
Muffles wax earplugs from Boots block out EVERYTHING except vibrations from stereos and I simply cannot recommend them enough on noisy SGR nights (or nights where I want a good, uninterrupted sleep)
I have never complained myself, but I do have a huge jar of jelly beans which I occasionally dip into and hurl at people in convertible cars stopped at the lights (if their RnB is stupidly bassy), or pissed slappers who scream uninteligible nonsense at each other from a distance of just 20cm outside the Dairy at closing etc etc.
Most of them are too pissed to see where these beans come from, and as I have such a good vantage point, I get to see them get hit without them seeing me. Twice I've had an absolute corker where the guy in the convertible thought a hail of bullets had hit him (pansy!) and one where the girls went mental, shouting "WHO DID THAT", looking around the empty road for a hidden marksman for about twenty minutes.
Immature, I know, but sometimes I prefer to take matters into my own hands, and it's also a good way to get rid of unwanted jelly belly flavours such as liquorice and coconut.
I feel that SOME of the critisism of Sugar Lounge is a bit unjust. Because they are open late, a lot of people are drunk already when they arrive. Which may not be obvious to the staff straight away as people tend to pull themselves together before going into a new place.
I mean there is only so much you can do!!! The problem is often the people, not the venue itself. If the doorman refuses them entry, chances are they will hang around on the pavement arguing or debating their next move. And you can't just forcibly move someone off a public pavement!
If someone has spent the evening there and are leaving in separate directions, chances are they will have a chat/cigarette/extended goodbye outside. And drunk people just tend to be loud.
Normally I would say if you live on a busy road, you have to put up with a certain amount of noise, but I wont, as I've seen previous threads, and the words "worms" and "can" springs to mind.
I do sympathise with those who are effected, but from what I have seen, the Sugar Lounge has listened and tried to do something about the situation. And at the end of the day, this street is always going to have some level of noise.
I think it's safe to say that noise travels in mysterious ways in SG - sigh.
I didn't know the WLM had had complaints from the neighbours. I live about as close to it as you can get without tunneling into the cellar, and I never hear a peep, unless you count the hum of the air con (which I find quite soothing).
Had massive argument with then-boyfriend.He stormed out and as I went to the bar in a flood of tears to pay, Karmen herself gave me a massive brandy on the house. She seemed really nice, and I was talking to her about opening late for music, and as far as I remember (obviously I had more brandy...) she said she didn't want to have certain music as she didn't want any trouble.
Does anyone know if she has been involved the whole time, or has it been new owners that have created the bad rep?
The Toasters have been spotted in Berlin, Stockholm, NY, LA, San Fran, Tokyo, Sao Paulo, Rio, Montevideo, Buenos Aires, Paris and of course Stroud Green Road, London.
I always liked the toasters on the roll down shutter and to that end applaud Seasons for encouraging the street art on their roll down shutter.