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Cereal Killer café

June 2018

  • Toby Moses

    RIP Britain's high streets. Stop bewailing them and think afresh

    Toby Moses
    Creativity and local government help could recreate jobs and community spirit, says Toby Moses, assistant editor on Guardian Opinion

October 2016

  • Gary and Alan Keery, identical twins who own and run the Cereal Killer Cafe in Brick Lane

    Gentrified world
    Cereal Killer cafe: what will Birmingham make of its new hipster hangout?

    The notorious Cereal Killer cafe became the focus of anti-gentrification riots in London last year, but now the bearded owners are taking their pricey bowls of rare cereal to England’s second city. How will Brummies react?

July 2016

  • cereal cafe hipsters

    The struggle is ce-real: how Kellogg’s killed the hipster breakfast trend

    For $7.50 a bowl, the brand’s new cereal cafe is a last-ditch attempt to milk what’s left of the millennial trend that epitomizes gentrification and consumer culture

December 2015

  • Belgrade’s historic Savamala district could best be described as a Balkan bootleg of Hackney or Williamsburg, or any other gentrified quarter.

    Belgrade's 'top-down' gentrification is far worse than any cereal cafe

    Aleks Eror
    The little slice of Dubai that is the elitist Belgrade Waterfront development has united a strong protest movement – against a foe that really deserves it

October 2015

  • Illustration of an anti-gentrification warrior holding placard that reads: 'Down with brioche buns!'

    Modern tribes
    Modern tribes: the anti-gentrification warrior

    ‘What do you want me to do, cry, because a pair of privileged, diabetes-inducing incomers got so much publicity for having to clean up spilled Sugar Puffs that they’ve practically been canonised?’
  • Air France executive Pierre Plissonnier is helped to escape angry staff by police.

    The debate
    Should we still bother with street protests?

    Ed Vulliamy and Anne McElvoy
    Recent demonstrations against Air France executives and London’s Cereal Killer Café turned ugly, but past marches have achieved great things. Or have they?
  • Clothes shops in Brick Lane

    Supporting local businesses
    Gentrification doesn't have to be a dirty word for business

    With the Cereal Killer Cafe in Shoreditch attacked by anti-gentrification protesters, what’s the reality of running a business in an up-and-coming area?

September 2015

  • Cereal Killer cafe in Brick Lane

    Our Cereal Killer cafe is spreading joy – protesters should leave us alone

    Alan Keery
    The cafe gives customers a taste of fun and attracts tourists who benefit the whole area. Attacking us does nothing to help those suffering from poverty
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