Clapham Calling

Jamie Oliver's Recipease

Not far from us, down the Northcote Road (which is painfully trendy and where only the beautiful people are allowed to walk.) Jamie Oliver has opened Recipease. It has a great looking interior and is stocked to the brim with everything that represents brand Jamie or Jme as the logo reads - you can have a hot water bottle and an eye mask right through to "Real" Tomato Ketchup. I absolutely loved the aesthetics of everything.  The Spencer squirrel nutcracker is a triumph or form, function and fun.

However at the till I noticed the Jamie Magazine, there were a number of issues each with a cheery photo of our eponymous hero. I asked the guy behind the till if every issue had a picture of JO on them he said "of course it is his magazine". It does make sense of course but I asked is there no sense of self effacement "not at all why should there be?" I explained that I would never want to subject the public to endless images of myself and then I asked the till operator would he want the same he said "yes if I had the same life's accomplishments and success." I pressed the point a bit and said "where does being humble and humility come into it" He said with great magnanimity JO had proven the possesion of this characteristic by way of his school dinner project and the fifthteen restaurants. So I realised I should never had raised this question here of all places and sculked out the door to eat Humble Pie not branded Jme but JG.

 

James 4:6  "God opposes the proud but gives grace to the humble."

Not for vegeterians!

A favourite place for me to eat in Clapham is Bodean's. It's a BBQ joint. As you enter your are hit by the smell of smoky meat. It seems like everything gets the BBQ treatment and that is ok with me. Bodean's offers good value for money but for me what is disappointing, at times is the lack of consistency with the food and the service. I have had great service but then the food has been a small portion and the meat very dry. Then on another visit the service was inattentive but the food was melt in the mouth. So when visiting you never know what it is going to be like. If it was possible to choose I would take better food than the service but why can we not have both? 

 

Picture from trusted places.