Coffee @ Brick Lane / Bermondsey Street Coffee / Fix Whitecross Street

I’ve put these four cafes in one post because the idea of this blog is that it’s my ‘top 10’ and I can’t decide which of these four cafés I like best and because aside from ‘Fix’ (where the owner only used to work at one of the others) I think they’re all owned by the same person. If they open one more though, I may decide they are a chain at which point they will be stricken from my list!

It’s often hard to get a seat at Coffee @ Brick Lane as it’s always heaving, but if you do manage it then it’s great for people watching. It’s where t-shirts with trendy slogans and trainers by Jeremy Scott come to hang out. On the definite plus-side it has most of the trappings I look for when drinking coffee: 1. it’s not a Starbucks; 2. it has large comfy chairs taking up valuable retail space; 3. they do a soy latte.

Coffee@Bricklane, 154 Brick Lane, Spitalfields, London, E1 6RU
020 7247 6735
Monday – Sunday 7.30am – 8pm

Ahh Bermonsey, London’s favorite shithole. In fact most people have never heard of Bermondsey. Well let me tell you, as long as you stick to Bermondsey Street you will be very pleasantly surprised. First of all it has been gentrified to the hilt (apparent by the abundance of Vespa scooters) which naturally means you will find the following; gastro pubs, expensive cafes and shops where all the stock has been imported from Japan. Bermondsey Street Coffee is exactly what it should be in a place like this; horrendously over-priced, impeccably trendy, and full of graphic designers who dream of having their own t-shirt line. It’s a nice place to work though, comforting as I don’t think anyone else here has job either… by choice of course.

Bermondsey Street Coffee, 163-167 Bermondsey Street, London, SE1 3UW
020 7423 1525
Monday – Sunday 7am – 8pm

Coffee @ Gos sell homemade honey and have lots of magazines to browse through too, there is no need to say more, they sell homemade honey for chrissakes.

Coffee @ Gos, 160-164 Goswell Rd, London
020 7336 6538
Mon-Fri 7am – 8pm Sat-Sun 8am – 7pm

Now although Fix is not associated with the other three is does have a very similar theme to it. They may not like me saying this but I can assure you it’s a good thing. They have even gone to the trouble to make a sign stating this fact (see below).