What was once a really good little antique shop is now an even better café. Full stop has gone right to the top of my list of favourites. I like it because it’s been designed to look like a sitting room from another decade, complete with 1960’s kitchen cupboards, blue Formica table tops, couches, wall [...]

Ok it’s true there is nothing so special anymore about salvaged china tea cups and cakes on pretty cake stands but you have to trust me when I say that Mouse & de Lotz is special. If you were to wander around East London these days, taking in the wonderful array of cafes, there are [...]

Before Andor Bureau came about this spot was a series of greasy spoons ranging from great to awful, it was only a matter of time before it became somewhere that sold Victoria sponge cake rather than fry-up’s though with the art gallery infested Vyner street opposite and The Last Tuesday Society shop of weirdness next [...]

The best places always tend to be the secret places I think, the ones that only attract the same sort of people and friends of those people. I’ve got to be honest, I’m not a fan of diversity. I like what I like and who I like and that’s that. Anyway, one day a friend [...]

Now here’s a good one, Cafe Oto. Yes I’m embarrassed to say I’ve only just got around to coming here. It was only when Katie told me about it that I realised that another day couldn’t go by without me paying a visit. Katie has great taste, unpretentious but really good. I have a list [...]

So have I told you about my friend Ana? Ana’s hobby, at least at the moment anyway, is going on dates with people she meets on dating websites. The last date she went on was at Tina, We Salute You! He was a badger watcher apparently, he’d sit there watching badgers and taking note of [...]

Yey another bike shop cafe! Look Mum No Hands, certainly brightens up this boring stretch of Old Street. This ambitous project is both bike workshop and cafe/casual restaurant of sorts. It’s definitely less of a hipster fixed wheel hangout and more of a family oriented place, hosting fun events from brownie baking competitions to film [...]

I’m well known for my ‘fads’, they go way back, ranging from synchronized swimming to carpentry but of late I’m into bikes. I haven’t gone as far as getting a fixed wheel though. Looking cool on a fixed wheel bike is really not such a fine line. You can only pull it off if you [...]

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 [...]

On my initial discovery it was like an episode of the Twilight Zone. I decided to walk up Cambridge Heath Road as it was a rare sunny day when I came across what looked like a garden centre or children’s crèche due to an abundance of garden gnomes, miniature chairs and rocking horses on a [...]

The best way to get here is to approach through the Leake Street Tunnel which is a Banksy-created installation of stencil graffiti by artists such as the NYC collective Faile. It’s where graffiti should be: outside. Not on canvases cluttering gallery walls. There isn’t much left now but it’s worth a look, or maybe not, [...]