Jam Circus, Brockley

Been meaning to go to Jam Circus for months and last night we finally decided it was the time. Looked promising from the outside and on entry seemed buzzing and pleasant.

We were lucky enough to find a seat in the corner, although it was near the steps to the back room we realised that these seats were the seat equivalent of the M1 and if we got bumped into once we got bumped into 70 times plus, not to mention the spilled beers etc!!

Not a great selection of wines, but still not too bad, I ordered a bottle and asked if we could get some Olives, these only come with Houmous and PItta Bread, fine, ordered some.

Came up very quickly! Now I've tried houmous all the world over, but there was something very very odd about this one, it had a very odd smell to it, not the usual houmous smell that you'd expect. One bite of my houmous laden pitta bread and that was enough for me to spit it out. My companion for the evening had already decided that this was not the kind of houmous that he was used to either so it sat untouched on the plate.

Now to the Olives, edible, flavourful, but had the texture of mashed bananas, how wrong can Olives get?

Music! Too loud, it was impossible to hear my friend opposite me and we spent the rest of the evening having to lean across the uneaten houmous to hear each other speak, we decided to finish the bottle of wine and head home. Jam Circus was one of those "must do sometime" to "done that, won't be back anytime soon, if at all".

If you can get Houmous and Olives right, then I don't hold up much for the food. Besides it was just too loud to have a nice evening.

In JC's favour though, they did give us the money back on the houmous, so maybe we could have popped across to the Co-Op and bought a tub to eat with the Pitta.

Shame as it looked promising and Brockley does lack places.

31 Jan 2010 10:49