BUSTER MANTIS Pubs of Deptford

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Sort file:- Deptford, March, 2021.

Page Updated:- Sunday, 07 March, 2021.

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Paul Skelton

Earliest 2015-

Buster Mantis

Open 2020+

3-4 Resolution Way

Deptford

020 8691 5191

http://www.bustermantis.com/

https://whatpub.com/buster-mantis

Above photo, 2016.

Situated under the arches with the railway passing overhead.

The following was taken from their web site in February 2017:- We are located down a little alleyway just off Deptford High Street, spread over two railway arches underneath the platforms of Deptford rail station. One arch functions as a bar, café and eatery, with the other arch serving as a gallery and creative space, hosting regular events, art exhibitions and screenings.

Buster Mantis takes its name from the first prime minister of Jamaica, Sir Alexander Bustamante, who was instrumental in establishing the country's independence. It is a small, independent family business, whose owners have lived between Jamaica and this area for the last 60 years. We opened Buster Mantis simply to add to the small, but resurgent list of nice places to drink in Deptford.

We can also now walk to work. Which is nice.

From the https://london.eater.com by Adam Coghlan, 4 September 2018.

Jamaican Restaurant and Bar in Deptford Goes Fully Vegan.

Buster Mantis has announced it will trial a “plant-based take on Jamaican food” for three months in collaboration with the musician Denai Moore.

Musician Denai Moore is collaborating with Jamaican restaurant.

The bar, music venue, and Jamaican restaurant Buster Mantis in Deptford has announced that it will go fully vegan for three months as of this evening (4 September, 2018.) The venue will work in partnership, following two recent pop-ups, with the musician Denai Moore, who is also the founder of modern vegan Jamaican food brand, Dee’s Table.

“Morning all, big announcement: from tonight and for the next 3 months, we’re going 100% vegan,” the venue wrote on Twitter today. “From the amazing response to the pop-ups, we’ve decided to collaborate with @DenaiMoore for a plant-based take on the Jamaican food that we’ve known and loved our whole lives. Come try?”

The venue added that it was the first time in its nearly three years of operation that it has changed the output of the kitchen “so drastically.” Until now, the restaurant was known for familiar Jamaican dishes such as jerk chicken, ackee and saltfish and curry. On Instagram, the owners admitted that they’d “already had a few customers walk out when they couldn’t get their beloved Buster Mantis jerk chicken, but to put it intellectually: ‍♂.”

“We’d like to welcome Dee [Moore] to the Buster Mantis family, and we hope you guys like her food as much as we do. She’ll be starting tomorrow, September 4th. See you then,” the owners added.

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