I went to the little old cafe next to Knights Hill Fish & Chips yesterday afternoon in a break from an auction at Roseberys. Proper old school, the place looks like it hasn't changed in 50 years. I had the homemade steak pie with chips and beans. It was like eating my Granny's dinners in the 70's - the cheapest stewing steak, those rough old beans with the little bits in the sauce, gravy with rainbows of oil congealing to a grim jelly as it cools and hardens. Lovely old dear in there, kind of place that you hope will keep going and won't be tuned into another fried chicken shop, but tbh it was a bit grim and I won't be going back.
Also popped down the record and book shop near The Hope. Good selection of reggae, some quite unusual and rare tunes, if that selection is anything to go by. Not cheap though, if you put Ebay prices on LPs you don't last long these days I reckon. You've got to undercut Ebay and run a quicker turnover to survive. Alternative/cult style book selection looked good though, great to have that in WN. Didn't look at the prices though.
