Zucca to close

Really annoyed. Is Bermondsey St going to be filled with the usual chains soon?
I hope they don't go too far. Around Southwark / Borough perhaps? Or maybe be bold and open in Elephant before all the new residents move in?

This is awful news.
When are they closing?

Website currently says 23rd December.

I walked down Bermondsey street today and felt upset that cave, the bermondsey sq book shop and now zucca were to close/d, then I remembered when I moved here there was nothing, nothing at all, apart from bermondsey kitchen (was that where Zucca is now? or was it at Pizarro?) the neighbourhood had some form of edge yet not the amount/volume of amazing things happening in it. i dont know what i prefer. is it going to tip into nothingness? an empty boring run through to you get to the city whilst foreign own flats are empty?

Either way I wish to have the crew behind zucca (and the cafe in the area before it) stay with us in our area. They created such an identity for Bermondsey as a great food destination and been connected to se1 for such a long time.

I lived in Angel over the course of gentrificaition when upper street was in a simliar transition I dont think anyone really cares for Upper Street now as a destination. I dont want to see my lovely Bermondsey go the same way.

Bermondsey kitchen was where Pizarro is now, Julia, and the woman that ran it is no longer in the restaurant trade as far as I know. The spot where Zucca is now, was for years a massive hole in the ground. Bermondsey kitchen always felt like it was nearer to 'home' than it was to the city. I used to love the smell of bread from Ticino and flour on the pavement - it was a sign I was getting to the home end of the street. Am similarly worried that we are hurtling towards pret-Starbucks -blandsville.

Julia7239 wrote:

I walked down Bermondsey street today and felt upset that cave, the bermondsey sq book shop and now zucca were to close/d, then I remembered when I moved here there was nothing, nothing at all, apart from bermondsey kitchen (was that where Zucca is now? or was it at Pizarro?) the neighbourhood had some form of edge yet not the amount/volume of amazing things happening in it. i dont know what i prefer. is it going to tip into nothingness? an empty boring run through to you get to the city whilst foreign own flats are empty?
Either way I wish to have the crew behind zucca (and the cafe in the area before it) stay with us in our area. They created such an identity for Bermondsey as a great food destination and been connected to se1 for such a long time.

I lived in Angel over the course of gentrificaition when upper street was in a simliar transition I dont think anyone really cares for Upper Street now as a destination. I dont want to see my lovely Bermondsey go the same way.

I never knew the pre gentrification Upper St, I love it though. I think we can only dream of such a street in SE1.

Really? I guess it would be a dull world if we all had the same dreams. We left Upper St environs in 1999 for Bermondsey St and have never looked back - having said which although Upper St took a big dive, it is currently recovering with some great new places too and its always had some good ones even amidst the dire. After longstanding Delfina (former Tanner & Co) the first big change in Bermondsey St was probably the Honest Cabbage - good independent restaurant on the site of what is the Garrison today. The Cabbage closed just as the Bermondsey Kitchen was starting - then everything sort of erupted in a good way. Really hope we don't have to go through the Upper St downcycle - chains, nightclubs etc would be a grim prospect and should be firmly resisted.

Hmmm quite a long street I suppose, didn't see any clubs, I meant the area around the angel station, it has everything, that was what I meant about dreaming, in SE1 we seem to be catering for one type (class?) of patron only.

Boroughonian wrote:

in SE1 we seem to be catering for one type (class?) of patron only.

True.

How is that even possible?! Can't they re-open somewhere else on the street? It is the BEST restaurant in the area by far. This is going to destroy Bermondsey Street! First the Cave and now Zucca... :(