My absolute favourite places are the ones that pop up in the middle of nowhere. Violet is one of these places, a great little cafe with a lot of character. It’s part of random little stretch of really great cafes and shops in a nice residential area near Hackney Central Station which includes another of [...]
So today I went for a ride around Stamford Hill looking for Jewish bakeries (it’s a Jewish area). I love to ride my bike and I love Jewish bakeries. I was totally unsuccessful however, there don’t seem to be any really authentic ones or at least I haven’t found any apart from perhaps Sharon’s. I [...]
Before Hackney 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 served 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 [...]
A peaceful little spot with not too much coming and going and Spanish music playing in the background, it’s not your typical ‘overindulged girl who loves to bake cakes’ kind of place although it does seem to be very buggy friendly and my tranquility has been disturbed by Rainbow, a vile 5 year old who’s [...]
There is something about this café which feels different for Hackney, there are no push chairs which is weird, every nice café in Hackney is rammed with push chairs and the decoration is a bit eccentric. On top of that it feels exceptionally laid back, no immaculate piles of fancy cupcakes or cakes on glass [...]
So I’ve recently moved house, my flatmate got a cat that peed on everything, I couldn’t handle it so it was a ‘me or the cat’ situation. The cat won, I moved out. Oh well it worked out better in the end as now I’m nearer to good places to go for breakfast, a couple [...]
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 [...]
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