Carina Murphy doesn’t go for a swim The lovingly restored 1930s art deco Lido Café on the edge of Brockwell Park will be familiar to most I’m sure. When it reopened in 2009 I was in the first haze of new-born, err, bliss, and, in constant need of decent coffee...

Brixton Breakfasts: The Lido Cafe

How did Mark Muldoon get on with breakfast at The Lido Cafe? Did it leave him cold as the water in February or was it a walk in the park? Spare a thought for our beloved Brockwell Lido during these long, cold winter months. Plenty of us just sort of...

Review: A Light Lunch at Lido Café

Restaurant reviews are a funny thing. If a place serves great food, often little else needs to be said than just that, and a review is more of a means of getting the word out and whetting appetites with descriptions of tastes and textures. And then there are places...

Take Two: Brixton Craft Halloween Special @ Upstairs at the Ritzy and Scary Story, Full Moon @ The Lido Cafe

Monday October 29 Can you guess the theme of today's tips..? Take One: Brixton Craft: Halloween Special @ Upstairs at the Ritzy Get ready for the actual night of Halloween with a craft evening at Upstairs at the Ritzy. Learn how to slime glaze your own ceramic tiles, make jack-o-lanterns and creepy...

Take Two: Board games @ Upstairs at the Ritzy and Dinner @ The Lido Cafe

Monday October 8 Take One: Board games and beyond @ Upstairs at the Ritzy The Ritzy is catering for autumnal cravings with its board games evening tonight. Whiling away the hours with games, a pint, and preferably the wind raging outside, sounds like a good night to us. Bring your own...

Take Two: Al fresco @ The Lido Cafe and Negril

Wednesday August 22 With such warm weather, here are two tips for al fresco dining in Brixton tonight, both with rather slow service so best on a languorous day. Take One: The Lido Cafe Sitting next to the pool at The Lido Cafe watching the sun go down is like being transported to the...

Take Two: Opera Australia:La Traviata @ Ritzy and Burger and beer @ The Lido Cafe

Wednesday 1 August Take One: Opera Australia: La Traviata @ Ritzy What a way to spend a Wednesday afternoon - the opera at the cinema. Ritzy is showing a performance of La Traviata by Opera Australia today at 1pm. It's a tragic tale of the conflict between love and reputation in...

Take Two: Footie in Brixton and Flamenco @ The Lido Cafe

Tuesday 19 June Take One: Footie in Brixton Have a non-'Village' dinner - at say Majestic, Lisboa Grill, Brazas or Asmara - and then catch England's last group game against Ukraine from 7.45pm. Check out Brixton Buzz's guide to Euro 2012 in Brixton bars here - Ritzy wins the prize for...

Take Two: Burgers @ The Lido Cafe and Open mic night @ Electric Social

Wednesday 30 May Take One: Burgers @ The Lido Cafe Come rain, cloud or sun, The Lido Cafe is a good place to sit of a summer's evening and enjoy the Brixton sunset. Every Wednesday, you can get a burger and a Meantime beer or glass of house wine for £9.25. Be...

Take Two: Cool Jazz Mondays @ The Grosvenor and a meal out @ The Lido Cafe

Take One: Cool Jazz Mondays @ The Grosvenor The resident jazz trio at The Grosvenor add grooves to the start of the week. There's a pool table, table football and a bunch of board games here too. Cool Jazz Mondays at The Grosvenor, 17 Sidney Rd. Take Two: Open Mic True Stories...

Take Two: Bill Cunningham in New York @ Ritzy Cinema and burger/beer @ The Lido Cafe

Take One: Bill Cunningham in New York @ Ritzy Cinema This week the Ritzy is showing a film about the New York Times photographer Bill Cunningham. Now 80 years old, he has documented several decades of street fashion trends for the newspaper. Director Richard Press now turns the camera on Cunningham, following...

Take Two: Meet Brixton @ Kaff Bar and burgers ‘n’ beer @ The Lido Cafe

Take One: Meet Brixton The month has flown by and it's already time for Meet Brixton. A laid-back meet up for anyone who lives or works in Brixton, or just loves the place. And there'll be some special deals and nibbles from the lovely guys at Kaff Bar too. More...

The Lido Cafe: Winner of the Time Out Best Park Cafe

Congratulations to the Lido Cafe for their Time Out win and five star review in the Eating and Drinking Awards 2011.

Brixton’s Volcano coffee and Brockwell Lido team up with Crisis

At least two local institutions are working with Crisis, the homeless charity. Brockwell Lido will host its Icebreaker fundraiser on Saturday 15 December and Brixton coffee roaster Volcano is working to create a special blend for the Café from Crisis initiative. 15% of all sales of the blend by Volcano...

Pool Party: Lido Lates

Carina Murphy dives into Brockwell ‘Lido Lates’ Ah, Brockwell Lido. Where better to head in the sun-blasted hazy days of endless heatwave than South London’s finest outdoor oasis and much-loved grade II art deco marvel? Well, nice idea folks, but you’ll probably have to join that monster queue snaking round Brockwell...

New writer-in-residence at Brockwell Lido

South London's beloved open-air swimming pool now has its very own writer-in-residence. Writer Shelley Silas will be spending her Monday afternoons writing at Brockwell Lido. I spoke to Shelley during her first residency as she sat beside the pool on the Lido Cafe’s terrace. As a long-time user of the Lido, she’s...

Brockwell Lido hosts Fun Palace this Sunday

This Sunday (5 October), Brockwell Lido will be one of 100 UK venues hosting a 'Fun Palace' - a free event that promises to deliver 'the energetic to the scientific, the silly to the serious'. Based around a meeting of arts and science, this experimental occurrence will include a range of frolics, such as swimming with...

An idyll in the heart of the city: Brockwell Lido

By Will Bedingfield The story of the survival of the Brockwell Lido is one that features some exceptional characters. Casey McGlue is one of these. Speaking at his West Norwood deli Beamish & McGlue, he sums up the theme of his 1994-2002 tenure when he managed the Lido with his work...

Hundreds turn out for Brockwell Lido modernism bash

Poor weather couldn’t dampen the spirits as more than 500 people attended the Modern Movement Festival, an art deco design fair at Brockwell Lido this weekend. The brave and foolhardy got a chance to swim for free while others browsed art from students at Camberwell Art College and a range...

Council’s Brockwell Park partner says giant events must be reconsidered

Brockwell Park Community Partners (BPCP), which recently agreed with Lambeth council to take part in a “partnership board” to oversee the running of the park, is the latest organisation to question plans for two major events in the park in summer 2018. In a statement today (13 December) it said...

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