Carluccios on its way?

According to this planning application (Reference: 2010/0125), Italian restaurant Carluccios is itching to get into Cobham High Street.

Carluccios started Jamie Oliver’s career and is a restaurant so homely it is listed on the stock exchange.

Nice food, as anyone who’s been to the one in Esher will say, but honestly, another restaurant?

It sells olive oil for £12.80 and also a drink called coffee, whatever that is.

Surely there’s more popular shops or services that could fill that gap, like another estate agent?

Or maybe even a Pizza Express-style return for Match Point?

Milkshake brings all the boys to the yard

Cafe Fego is selling milkshakes I saw today.

Filling the gap in the market since the Homestead closed?

Top of the Chops?

There was an unexpected addition to Cobham’s streets (to us, at least) on Oakdene Parade as this barber shop opened almost out of no-where! A rival to Pike’s on Cedar Road and Village Barbers on Church Street, has anyone been there to give a report? Should Toni and Guy’s be worried? Which gentlemen’s hair-removal establishment will end up ‘Top of the Chops’?

Ready, Steady, FEGO!

Finally, Fego is up and running. As if Cobham needed another coffee shop…

I have yet to see anyone sitting in the chairs outside due to the bad weather but it looks like a pleasant place to sit and watch the world go by. Work still to be completed upstairs, looks like offices.

Including Watsons and Chez Gerrard, I make that eight coffee shops in Cobham. A bit OTT wouldn’t you say?

Gone to pot

That great scourge of Surrey so prevalent after icefall – the pothole is lurking – so watch your wheels or prepare your council compensation forms.

And floods of near Biblical proportions can be seen on Sandy Lane too every time it rains.

I have been told by the nice person who sent these pictures to look closely at the finger of the passenger of the BMW as they approach the RAC van.

She must be pointing heavenward to the next deluge.

Ah well, we may have third world roads but at least we have a first world ride.