Hurwundeki Café

On my initial discovery it was like an episode of the Twilight Zone. I decided to walk up Cambridge Heath Road to avoid waiting for a bus as it was a rare sunny day when I came across what looked like a garden centre or children’s crèche with an abundance of garden gnomes, miniature chairs and rocking horses in a sand-covered fake beach sort of thing with very old deckchairs and a lovely old oak kitchen table. Situated next to the overground station and facing a particularly seedy strip club, it turns out Korean-owned Hurwundeki, one of my favourite clothes shops, has opened an amazing café/antique shop playing 20’s jazz, and kitted it out with old wooden furniture you might find in a sailor’s beach cabin, decking and an array of books and magazines that cost £45 strewn across tables. The food which is generally only a roast vegetable ciabata sandwich is totally delicious and made by Frederic, the best thing to come out of France. Oh and all the furniture is for sale and they have a great second hand furniture shop next door with anything from Victorian barbers’ chairs, to top hats to 1950’s kitchen dressers.