Baker Street: Brighton's Best Kept Secret?

[whitelion]

Is Ovett's owned and run by relations to Steve?

I always assumed it was the father's place - they used to have a shop in George Street Hove.

 

[pearl]

I always assumed it was the father's place - they used to have a shop in George Street Hove.

not sure, but Steve Ovett's foot is in Preston Park

 

[whitelion]

not sure, but Steve Ovett's foot is in Preston Park

There's that weird statue too outside Hove Town Hall.

 

[London Irish]

not sure, but Steve Ovett's foot is in Preston Park

If one thing sums up the greatness of Brighton to me, it's that

 

[pearl]

There's that weird statue too outside Hove Town Hall.

he gets about ... there's one on the seafront between pier and marina too

 

[whitelion]

he gets about ... there's one on the seafront between pier and marina too

You'd do well to keep up with him.

 

[pearl]

If one thing sums up the greatness of Brighton to me, it's that

you may appreciate this then, on my way home this evening I walked past a doctors surgery and noticed they'd propped a sash window open with a section of vertebrae ..... hopefully not real

 

[Tom Hark Preston Park]

I go to Coombs for my goldfish. I bought 4 over seven years ago, one died earlier this year, but the other three are still going strong.

Got my first ever goldfish from Coombs. Really intelligent fish. So much so, I taught him to say his own name. Sadly been dead a few years now. I really miss Bob.

 

[The Antikythera Mechanism]

I remember a jewellers / watch makers, Peter Sired, I think where the watch maker sat in a little booth with, what looked like a microscope attached to his glasses. Looked like a Borg.

 

[Cowfold Seagull]

You'd do well to keep up with him.

Even though he has lost a foot?

 

[whitelion]

Even though he has lost a foot?

He was quite tall to start with tbf.

 

[Tom Hark Preston Park]

IMHO the best stall in the Open Market is Ovetts bacon and cheese.

Love Ovett's. Go there a couple of times a week. Half a dozen jumbo eggs for 90 pence. Big slab of brie or tub of camembert for a quid or less. Somtimes there's odd Lidl-style random additions, like a couple of months ago when they'd somehow acquired a couple of dozen BFG litre bottles of remoulade. Have to confess that I had no idea what it was (and they didn't seem to have much idea either) but took a £1.50 punt on a bottle. Lovely it was! Then across the market to Mears for cheap and seasonal fruit and veg. Tremendous value. None of that 'ripen in bowl' nonsense with the fruit, has to be eaten within a day or two at the most.

 

[Tom Hark Preston Park]

not sure, but Steve Ovett's foot is in Preston Park

Steve in his PRIME



Alas, nowadays poor Steve hasn't a leg to stand on

 

[Gwylan]

Love Ovett's. Go there a couple of times a week. Half a dozen jumbo eggs for 90 pence. Big slab of brie or tub of camembert for a quid or less. Somtimes there's odd Lidl-style random additions, like a couple of months ago when they'd somehow acquired a couple of dozen BFG litre bottles of remoulade. Have to confess that I had no idea what it was (and they didn't seem to have much idea either) but took a £1.50 punt on a bottle. Lovely it was! Then across the market to Mears for cheap and seasonal fruit and veg. Tremendous value. None of that 'ripen in bowl' nonsense with the fruit, has to be eaten within a day or two at the most.

I go to Mears as well - great value. I'm go to Jason's rather than Ovett's for my eggs and cheese. It's equally cheap and the extra strong cheddar blows your head off.

 

[Colossal Squid]

The Mitre is one of my favourite Brighton boozers. It remains delightfully un****ed with

 

[Stat Brother]

Suddenly struck me today as I was leaving Bangers pie shop with two hearty chicken 'n' mushroom pies AND a serious sausage roll AND change from a fiver, what an absolute quality street is Baker Street.

Today was our second visit to Baker St, since this thread.
The last time was a Monday when Bangers was closed, so today we returned and I'm very pleased I'm able to retain such important knowledge as 'pie talk'.

My steak pie was great, dare I say ...

 

[BensGrandad]

I go to Coombs for my goldfish. I bought 4 over seven years ago, one died earlier this year, but the other three are still going strong.

I would assume that they sell other tropical fish as well as we usually buy ours at the garden centre in Hassocks but they dont seem to last very long.

 

[Thunder Bolt]

I would assume that they sell other tropical fish as well as we usually buy ours at the garden centre in Hassocks but they dont seem to last very long.

They do sell tropical fish but we've only ever kept cold water fish. Our remaining three fish are approx 5 years old.

 

[BensGrandad]

None of that 'ripen in bowl' nonsense with the fruit, has to be eaten within a day or two at the most.

Unlike you that is the reason that I do not buy fruit there as I prefer under ripe fruit when I buy it so that it ripens at home.

 

[BensGrandad]

They do sell tropical fish but we've only ever kept cold water fish. Our remaining three fish are approx 5 years old.

Next time we are in the area will go and have a look. Wife likes different coloured Barbs but those we get from Hassocks only last about 12 months and I dont know if that is usual or not.