Walkley Wine On Walkley Lane

[Guest makapaka]

2 hours ago, Robin-H said:

 I would say Aesthete in Walkley is quite upmarket (£5.60 for some scrambled eggs, £6 for porridge). 

 

It seems to be doing very well. 

It’s just passive snobbery.

 

“I don’t think there’s anything wrong with the place but they wouldn’t want anything upmarket”

 

Ignoring that there are 2 established places with speciality beers within 1/2 a mile of each other in Walkley.

 

i don’t think anyone would argue that upmarket usually equals expensive and that therefore more affluent places are more likely to use them.

 

i don’t think anyone would argue that the places he mentioned are more affluent than Walkley.

 

pretending that Walkley is unable to sustain anything “upmarket” is just either snobbery or ignorance of the facts though.

[DerbyTup 10]

5 hours ago, Robin-H said:

 I would say Aesthete in Walkley is quite upmarket (£5.60 for some scrambled eggs, £6 for porridge). 

 

It seems to be doing very well. 

Glad to hear it.  I don't know this place.   But generally speaking, you take a risk if you're not appealing to your local customer base.  I thought the same when the Sentinel Brewery opened up in the middle of a big student area, but had really expensive beers and no specific offerings/discounts for students.  (They did introduce that later though).  

 

There are exceptions of course.  People will travel to a place, from outside the area, if it gets a reputation for something that makes it different and puts it right up there amongst the best of its kind within a given geography.  But that's really quite hard to achieve and requires a lot of publicity as well.  It can be done though! You only have to look at some of the places that fake their way to top rankings on sites like TripAdvisor for examples.  

 

Incidentally I just had a glance at that place Aesthete - it does look really nice food and a very upmarket type of place.  I hope it does well.

[Longcol 597]

Half way down Walkley Lane - where there is nothing much - is a different animal to South Road / Howard Road / Commonside - where you find the cafes / bars / restaurants / takeaways / pubs.

Edited February 13, 2020 by Longcol

[Guest makapaka]

51 minutes ago, Longcol said:

Half way down Walkley Lane - where there is nothing much - is a different animal to South Road / Howard Road / Commonside - where you find the cafes / bars / restaurants / takeaways / pubs.

What’s your point?

[bluecanary 13]

12 hours ago, Longcol said:

Half way down Walkley Lane - where there is nothing much - is a different animal to South Road / Howard Road / Commonside - where you find the cafes / bars / restaurants / takeaways / pubs.

It never actually got as far as opening - some issue with the licensing or something, so it never actually got as far as testing the local market/demand.

[Longcol 597]

On 13/02/2020 at 23:19, makapaka said:

What’s your point?

South Road / Howard Road / Commonside can sustain speciality beer places, cafes  - and shops, an Asda local etc.   All of which are absent on Walkley Lane.