I was cycling up Kingsland Road the other day when I noticed a really nice looking cafe that’s not like the other cafes I love in the area, the cute little “this is an extension to our living room type” but a good spacious one with quite a few tables and two comfy sofas and [...]

Bird is the cutest little place. With only 4 tables, two of which are big enough to share, it’s the sort of place which is great to go for breakfast and to read a magazine. Fee from Fee Fee La Foo up the street recommended it to me. They have lots of freshly made cakes [...]

Tin Cafe has shot to the top of my list of favourites. This place is great mainly because of the lady and her friend who run it. It used to be some kind of dog centre and she hasn’t done much with the outside decoration, deliberately I think. Inside is a collection of mismatched furniture [...]

Betty’s is great, it’s tiny and quirky and about as uncommercial as you can get. Someone told me the owner lives upstairs and bakes all the cakes herself, she was very proud of a cake she made that morning, commenting that it looked like a cake from a cookbook and then she started taking photos [...]

I had been noticing recently that quite a few new places had popped up on Redchurch street and that I was totally out of touch. So I decided to cycle down and see what was new and while I was at it tell you about a few of my already existing favourite spots around there. [...]

The thing I find with pizza is, I can never find exactly the one I want on the menu. I usually buy a frozen pizza from the store, a nice thin crust margarita pizza and pile on all sorts of ingredients, peppers, onions, mushrooms maybe extra cheese, that’s how I like my pizza. Pizza East [...]

Discovered totally by accident as the front part of the shop sells some pretty interesting looking clothes, I wandered in to discover a brilliant café right at the back with a stylish Japanese woman talking animatedly on her phone. It has all the things I love, space, quiet, framed portraits of Victorians, antique furniture, a [...]