*London cafes: your very best recommendations, please!
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Another cafe worth a visit, this time in the bleak outpost of Elephant and Castle.
http://www.urban75.org/blog/electri...xt-kennington-and-elephant-and-castle-london/
http://www.urban75.org/blog/electri...xt-kennington-and-elephant-and-castle-london/
Puddy_Tat
naturally fluffy
The same people also have the container cafe which is part of the view tube (the thing made out of green containers opposite the olympic park.
I can't speak for the coffee (I don't do coffee) but the tea was very acceptable and the carrot cake was good.
Puddy_Tat
naturally fluffy
A mention for Royal Teas, Greenwich. Far enough off the touristy bits not to be too full.
Semi-veggie, they will do smoked salmon in the breakfastage, but not bacon. The lunch / soup of the day is just that - one hot dish on, and that seems to be veggie.
Good selection of cakes and teas - the latter come with proper cup & saucer and tea strainer.
Semi-veggie, they will do smoked salmon in the breakfastage, but not bacon. The lunch / soup of the day is just that - one hot dish on, and that seems to be veggie.
Good selection of cakes and teas - the latter come with proper cup & saucer and tea strainer.
stethoscope
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UrbaneFox
They've doubled in price
From my blog - this is a great Soho cafe with loads of proper tea and lashings of free wi-fi.
This is a lovely tea shop/cafe in the heart of Soho. You can smell the leaves of the many blends on offer before ordering, and they do some pretty fine food too.
If you bag yourself an upstairs seat, you can watch Soho go by as you drink your tea (or coffee, if you must), and there’s free wi-fi on offer, so you can get some work done – if you’re not busy chomping on the cakes.
It’s well worth a visit. Yumchaa is at 45 Berwick Street, London W1F 8SF, and they’ve also got cafes at Camden Lock and Camden parkway and stalls at various street markets – check out their website: yumchaa.co.uk.
Good place, sarnies, cakes, tea, etc. I first went there when I had a massage at the Chinese den next door. I don't know how I got out but I staggered dazedly into Yum Chaa afterwards. The staffs seemed to recognise the signs - Chinese massseurs show no mercy - and were most sympathetic.
I like: Egyptian Nights and Lemon Sherbet teas.
I like the Camden Parkway branch too.
The Cable Cafe at the top of Brixton Rd, where you get off the bus to walk across the church yard to the Oval tube.
Very nicely restored old caff, made cool, but not expensive, good coffee, nice cakes, and they are so laid back that though they don't do food they will allow you to bring in a sandwich of your own. And Italian deli / sandwich bar Mimi almost next door is a great place to get it from.
Free wifi, v relaxed friendly vibe.
Very nicely restored old caff, made cool, but not expensive, good coffee, nice cakes, and they are so laid back that though they don't do food they will allow you to bring in a sandwich of your own. And Italian deli / sandwich bar Mimi almost next door is a great place to get it from.
Free wifi, v relaxed friendly vibe.
nino_savatte
No pasaran!
Actually, I posted Cafe Plum (formerly The Odd Spot), opposite Riverside Studios on this thread a few years ago. They do decent scran. There's also The Riverside itself. Those are the best places. The cafés along Fulham Palace road are generally shite.
Here's one more: Cafe Brera in Lyric Square. It does some of the best coffee in the area.
Biscuit Tin
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The Garden House on Tottenham High Road does a "Tottenham Special" fried breakfast for £3.
It's clean and friendly and there's a space out the back if you want to smoke.
It's clean and friendly and there's a space out the back if you want to smoke.
Maggot
The Cake of Liberty
A cafe that doesn't do food? What's the point?
shifting gears
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Electric Cafe - opposite fire station, west norwood
My fave fry up, bar none. Cooked to perfection, best bubble & squeak around. Regularly get the bus up from Brixton as there's nothing comparable here. Get the big breakfast #1 , add fried slice, £5.30 and full till dinner.
Family run.
2 massive thumbs up.
My fave fry up, bar none. Cooked to perfection, best bubble & squeak around. Regularly get the bus up from Brixton as there's nothing comparable here. Get the big breakfast #1 , add fried slice, £5.30 and full till dinner.
Family run.
2 massive thumbs up.
Maggot
The Cake of Liberty
Does it come burnt and blackened?
Puddy_Tat
naturally fluffy
- gentrification. As I think I've said on another thread, used to go there for lunches when I worked in Kennington c. 1986-7. Fairly basic but acceptable 'caff' then.
Interesting to see the name has survived, though - well over 100 years since the cable trams (which handed back to the horses at Kennington) went.
ajdown
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Cat & Cucumber, corner of Tower Bridge Road and Druid Street.
http://goo.gl/maps/m4WJq
Was in there just yesterday. You can get a decent meal for less than a fiver.
http://goo.gl/maps/m4WJq
Was in there just yesterday. You can get a decent meal for less than a fiver.
DrRingDing
'anti-human wanker'
So, who's going to review Firebox then?
The39thStep
Urban critical thinker
I thought ou were organising the staff there?
DrRingDing
'anti-human wanker'
You're the authoritarian. Get yourself down there and tell the mere mortals what they should do. With your wise old head.
Maggot
The Cake of Liberty
I went there yesterday. It was nice, but nothing special. It closes at 5pm so you must get up really late!My partner and next door neighbours are raving about the Stage Door Cafe in Catford Broadway. It does a mean, clean, lean breakfast apparently, with good coffee.
I haven't been yet as I can never get up in time.
oryx
Sitting on the bok of the day
Chz
Stark Raving Sane
Proper old school.
TitanSound
Mr Beardy Drummer
Mike's on Blenheim Crescent W11.
Breakfast was just under a tenner but for that you got the pick of 6 items (I went for bacon, mushrooms, hash browns, two sausages, black pudding and egg), big glass of fresh orange juice, tea or coffee and two slices of lovely toast.
Breakfast was just under a tenner but for that you got the pick of 6 items (I went for bacon, mushrooms, hash browns, two sausages, black pudding and egg), big glass of fresh orange juice, tea or coffee and two slices of lovely toast.
shifting gears
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Silver spoon for the tea, presumably, at ' just under a tenner' ?
MillwallShoes
Don't kill the Lion
sorrento in west norwood. superb and one of the longest businesses in west norwood i know of. a real centre of the town.
MillwallShoes
Don't kill the Lion
ha, very good.I just have to mention the Millwall cafe. Only cafe that I am aware of that sells Kennedys pies
Unit 2-3 Enterprise Ind Bolina Road
London
SE16
the amount of cups of tea i have had out of that place is in it's hundreds.
MillwallShoes
Don't kill the Lion
manzes pie and mash, bermondsey, deptford and peckham. sort of a cafe.
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