You might think that there wasn’t much in Hackney Wick and that’s because there isn’t apart from a lot of unemployed people who call themselves artists. Anyway for months i’d been going to a fairly nasty cafe as there wasn’t anywhere else. Then a great little place opened up, eclectic and quirky, like sitting [...]

It’s just so cute, tucked away at the back of a camera repair shop, it’s quiet and discreet with a few little tables and Simon and Garfunkel playing in the back ground (it’s that kind of place). The few customers here are total anoraks, wearing hiking gear including boots and said anoraks despite the fact [...]

I’d read many a review of the Grocery café all of which condemned the service but enthused about the food. They weren’t wrong about the food, it’s amazing like. And I didn’t have a problem with the service, it was fine and I was served by a guy who looked like the freakish blond choir [...]

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

Its often hard to get a seat here as it’s always heaving. The types who come here are the kind who move to Bricklane because it’s cool not because they’re cool. I bet everyone here has a job in something related to advertising but they hang out on Brick Lane at Coffee @ on a [...]

On my initial discovery it was like an episode of the Twighlight Zone. I decided to walk up Cambridge Heath Road to avoid waiting for a bus as it was a rare sunny day and I come across what looked like a garden centre or children’s crèche with an abundance of garden gnomes, miniature chairs [...]

A home away from home with big comfy chairs (they probably salvaged from the street that a landlord couldn’t use due to the fire hazard). Its hidden in the Candid Arts Trust and you wouldn’t know it was there unless you knew it was there, which is it’s main attraction. Its fairly hippy looking with [...]

I think it’s accurate to say that Ray’s is the central meeting point for anyone coming to Soho. Situated in Foyle’s bookshop it serves all kinds of healthy food and cakes, coffee, tea and other drinks. Its pouring with rain outside and it’s a handy place to find myself as I have the whole book [...]

This is probably my favourite cafe in London (and like many others cafe I use as an office) due to the fact that its black and white and its rare that you see anyone in there who is not either consciously or subconsciously dressed in black or white. They don’t care if you stay there [...]