Once you see both Gail’s and Pret, you know the area is being efficiently gentrified – Hackney Central edition

by donell_walter

37 comments

  1. Hackney has been gentrified for like 20 years at this point.

  4. I’m so sad that the gyōza pub has been replaced by Gail’s 

  7. Hackney the borough has been gentrified since 015 tbh, only area left is stamford hill and manor house imo.

  8. I do not understand what people want at this point, are they happy living in the shit ?? What is the issue with an uplift of any area ?

  10. There’s now a Gail’s and a Starbies in Woolwich.

    You can still cross the road tho and take your life into your own hands so it’s not all bad

  11. We’re getting a Gail’s in Streatham. I thought it was weird when Waterstone’s moved in, but that’s really wtf.

  12. Hackney as a whole needs more gentrification still

  14. Pret means gentrification? Ha ha, that’s hilarious.

  15. Is it me, or does it feel like our grill is being poked by the phallus of Private Equity firms and we are too busy in London to know it?

  16. Reading this thread, quite a few places are getting a Gails. Soon they’ll be as common as muck.

  17. There’s a Gail’s coming to Streatham and a M&S in Brixton. Crazy times

  20. True. However, there comes a point where the word “Gails” loses all meaning. When it appears somewhere new, it suggests gentrification. Another Gails, another new town.. Until one day, Gails holds no value at all and becomes just another establishment on every street corner

  21. Oh no! The beer house shut down? Bummer. Bloody Gail’s gets everywhere. Shocked Hackney let it through consider all the controversy regarding the owner when the one in Walthamstow opened. But hey, thank fuck the bookies has gone, they are a blight on our culture.

  22. There’s been a Gail’s near Vicky Park (in Hackney) for 10 years at least.

  23. Pret has always been shite, but Gail’s is post gentrification. They wait for somewhere to eschew cheaper chain products, focus on higher priced independents, and then try and target an area with higher priced faux-artisan crap. You need to be gentrified for 10 years before you get a gails.

  25. The folk hanging around the open space next to it will ensure Hackney remains grounded…

    Also the Falafel stall outside it does better business then them.

  26. Gutted to lose the Hackney tap. That was an excellent summer pub with exceptional people watching and high stakes e bike, pedestrian and main road rage

  27. Oh no that used to be the Hackney Tap with a nice beer garden

  29. Op is a gentrifier, but doesn’t like the new gentrifiers

  31. Gentrification means clickers are down to just one every 3 hours and there’s a Waitrose and drug front barbers are limited to 5 for the entire strip. Go visit Crouch End to see what that looks like.

  32. I think an Ole & Steen would be a better indicator tbh..or even a Cafe Nero

  33. I like it when areas stay shitty, unpleasant, and mildly dangerous.

  34. In Golders Green, there is Gail’s, Starbucks, Pret and Cafe Nero next to each other? That does mean that we are ultra gentrified?

  35. Gails used to mean gentrification, now they are now just an upmarket Greggs.

    Let me know when there’s a Waitrose.

  36. I wonder if these sorts of companies aren’t linked, in a backhand kind of way, with builders and property owners or are owned by people/companies who profit from gentrifying  areas.

    Anyway, I wonder when they’ll get to Harlesden, not too far from Marylebone and the city, the high street has that baroque (though extremely run down) look.

    I always thought it was a much better candidate for gentrification than Hackney.

  37. Once you see them you know an area is changing for the better

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