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15 hours ago, DerbyTup said:

Eccy Road is a student venue mainly.  It was once the place to find an upmarket wine bar or restaurant, but the place to find those now is Manchester or Leeds.  So that's probably why Sheffield can't sustain them, not even on the road that purports to be Sheffield's "Champs Elysees".  

Never ever heard anyone refer to Ecclesall Road as champs elysees.

 

where did you hear it referred to as that?

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Rumours of Eccy Road's demise are premature in my opinion - in the last few years a number of micro pubs have sprung up offering a more diverse selection of venues (the micro sports bar is my new favourite place to watch sport), there's still a plethora of chain and independent restaurants catering for a wider range of tastes and a very exciting project next to Spar which should be open soon.

 

Some businesses will come and go quickly but the buildings don't seem to be empty for too long before someone else has a crack at it.

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January is always the worst month for restaurants. Even those doing badly will hang in to capture the Christmas trade. It's the same for many other shops too.

 

Rentals are often paid on quarter days and meeting that December payment is often the crunch point. The prospect of staggering on to March can be a step too far, and that will be another critical time.

 

 

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On 20/02/2019 at 09:26, Eccy Beach said:

Rumours of Eccy Road's demise are premature in my opinion - in the last few years a number of micro pubs have sprung up offering a more diverse selection of venues (the micro sports bar is my new favourite place to watch sport), there's still a plethora of chain and independent restaurants catering for a wider range of tastes and a very exciting project next to Spar which should be open soon.

 

Some businesses will come and go quickly but the buildings don't seem to be empty for too long before someone else has a crack at it.

Next to Spar? Old Yummy Hut etc? What's in store for that location, I know it's being refurbished.

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On 18/02/2019 at 18:38, Cyclone said:

Is it really the same place though if it went bust with debts of £330,000 and reopened as a new business with the same name?

Odd reference, the Champs Elysees is mostly lined with shops, not bars and restaurants.

It's a reference that I've heard made many times about Ecclesall Road - it's not something I invented. The Champs Elysee in Paris is indeed regarded as one of the prime shopping areas, so is (or was) Ecclesall Road in Sheffield. 

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56 minutes ago, DerbyTup said:

It's a reference that I've heard made many times about Ecclesall Road - it's not something I invented. The Champs Elysee in Paris is indeed regarded as one of the prime shopping areas, so is (or was) Ecclesall Road in Sheffield. 

Stop making things up - no one in Sheffield refers to ecclesall road as the champs Elysee. 

 

No no one at all.

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On 19/02/2019 at 01:45, DerbyTup said:

 road that purports to be Sheffield's "Champs Elysees".  

I needed a good laugh

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Many new places are in kelham island and there are still some hot places getting ready to open.

Last weekend it was right busy,  eccy is too old fashioned now.

 

Edited by dutch

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On 23/02/2019 at 22:45, DerbyTup said:

It's a reference that I've heard made many times about Ecclesall Road - it's not something I invented. The Champs Elysee in Paris is indeed regarded as one of the prime shopping areas, so is (or was) Ecclesall Road in Sheffield. 

There's literally no shopping on ER is there?

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2 hours ago, Cyclone said:

There's literally no shopping on ER is there?

Not much.  A smattering of overpriced boutiques, a FatFace and a White Stuff, a couple of electronic places, a shoe-repair shop, a few novelty shops selling presents etc, a smattering of charity shops, an M&S, Tesco and Sainsbury and a florist or two, as well as the usual convenience stores.  Oh, and a Boots.

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58 minutes ago, bendix said:

Not much.  A smattering of overpriced boutiques, a FatFace and a White Stuff, a couple of electronic places, a shoe-repair shop, a few novelty shops selling presents etc, a smattering of charity shops, an M&S, Tesco and Sainsbury and a florist or two, as well as the usual convenience stores.  Oh, and a Boots.

You forgot the chocolate shop, the party shop, the gunsmiths, the music shop, the  jewellery shop and the wedding shop.

 

But yeah, like 'literally' none :)

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3 minutes ago, DnAuK said:

You forgot the chocolate shop, the party shop, the gunsmiths, the music shop, the  jewellery shop and the wedding shop.

 

But yeah, like 'literally' none :)

Hey, don't get me wrong.  I like Eccie Road.  But having a smattering of shops on a street doesn't automatically make it a shoppig destination.

 

I'm guessing that if you stopped a random group of 100 people on Eccie Road on any one day, only a small fraction of them would say they are there for the shopping.  Most would be there for socialising of some kind - bars, food, coffee shops etc.  I live nearby and am there most days. Shoppers hunched over bags of stuff bought there are rare indeed.  

 

Unless they're looking for guns of course  (actually hasn't that place closed down and turned into yet another trendy barber / mens grooming place?).  I dunno.  I could be wrong.

 

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