About Set inside the wonderful Kenwood House, The Brew House Café is run by the Company of Cooks, which has the noble intentions of getting good food into public places. And here they succeed. Unlike many cafes in parks or stately homes, a lot of thought has gone into this recently refurbished venue. Kenwood House’s…
About Set among the side streets across from King’s Cross station sits Java Tree Café. This area has been neglected by the current regeneration yet is quite a nice spot full of old buildings and small side streets. However, many of the businesses and hotels appear to have been here since the 70s and Java…
About Out the back of King’s Cross is a huge new development. While it currently stands fairly empty, there is, in a vast old granary building, Caravan. While not strictly speaking a café, it is often regarded as one of the best places in King’s Cross to get a coffee. That might be because whilst…
About Nude Espresso is a name that should be familiar to coffee lovers across London. Although they only have two actual cafes, they supply their Brick Lane roasted coffee to 16 cafes including one of my local favourites, The Haberdashery in Crouch End. Their Soho café, which I am reviewing today, is perfectly situated in…
About Coffee Circus started off life as a wagon in Camden Market and opened its first shop in Crouch End a few years ago. Since then, it has gone on to be one of the most popular cafes in a very crowded market place. It’s ‘circus’ theme is very much in the background (don’t expect…
About To start my blog, I thought I’d go to the heart of the matter and the social hub of London – Soho. In recent years, Soho hasn’t quite been the centre of cafe life that it should have been but things are changing. I decided to visit a little Portuguese cafe on Frith Street.…
I’m a cliché – it is true. I am the cafe writer. London is full of us. We sit there with our mini laptops or leather bound note books and try to look pensive, like the very future of art rested on our narrow shoulders. A cafe has always been the favourite haunt of a…
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