london cafes s/d

Most of these places will rustle something like that up for you if you ask nicely.

sausage in "cafs" is to be shunned at all costs!!

yes, once and only once, pre gig at Zodiac. The food was gross. And there was this old woman in a beige tea-cosy hat who kept glancing round the cafe and saying "oh my God, what a zoo!"

There's a fantastic caff near Horseferry Road. I can't remember the name anymore, like.

Cumberland sausage with mashed potato and beans appears sometimes on the specials menu at A Toca Snack Bar and is not to be shunned at all.

I tend to prefer Café Med on Kentish Town Road these days. I am approaching the day when they rechristen the Cheese, Onion and Mushroom omelette the Troussé in my honour.

Also a word for Le Petit Prince, tucked off KTR, which is nice if you like French cooking and have a high twee threshold.

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Tommy,s tuc in (yes, they use a comma instead of an apostrophe) at the end of our road isn't bad at all too, they do a lovely bacon butty (proper style with pappy white bread that your fingers poke through)

I haven't been for a fry-up in ages :o(

On Gray's Inn Road there is Andrewes, and that fulfils all aesthetic and culinary needs. Top Nosh on Rosebery Avenue/Clerkenwell Road conjoinment has London's best felafel and the world's worst decor. I also like Siddoli's Buttery on Store Street - although it may have had a name change due to generational change in management.

You can get boiled eggs and soldiers at Smiths of Smithfield, and even though it's a bit sceney round there the food is good value and they don't seem to mind lingerers.

Centrally, the Blue Room on Bateman Street might be a bit noisy but prices include table rental, or at least seem to. Also, in the afternoon the ICA bar is dead quiet, just people working on laptops uninterrupted.

Where's that exactly?

it did change names, but it's still the same food/menu/tea urn and still 70s orange & brown inside. sunshine cafe on stroud green road has wonderful omelets and bubble and jacket potatoes with salad, and there's a really good builders' caff on golborne road. i can't remember the name, but it's all aqua tiled inside.

tell me of favourites in holloway/archway, camberwell/peckham, or stepney/whitechapel,

The above are all greasy spoons. For a step upmarket, you might try the Peckham Experiment, also on Bellenden Road about 5 minutes walk from Peckham Rye station. I had some delicious kippers there.

The only caff I've been to in Camberwell was the tiny Big Eat, on Camberwell Road just north of the big junction at Camberwell Green. I went there with Starry after looking round the Gala bingo on the last Open House weekend. I think I may have been hung over. It was really good, and the portions were enormous. Happy days.

See post from June 2003 for Pie & Mash recommendations. If you're in the Camberwell / Peckham area, Gareth, you should give me a shout. If you want.

the crumble at goddards in greenwich sounds enticing, i may be in greenwich again soon

seymours in camberwell seems very seasidey, but i havent been in yet, it seemed closed when i went past yesterday

I went to an excellent cafe the other week, but it was only at the Highbury end of Holloway Road - the Paradise Cafe.

Best omelette I've had in ages.

Also, I had lunch at Bar Italia in Soho for the first time ever - I've only ever had takeaway coffee there, but it was lovely to sit at a table outside and watch the world go by.

millenium cafe is quite a favourite amongst the locals. it has very nice wood panelling and they will serve you a moussaka at 11am on a sunday morning if for some reason you feel like ordering it.

where else is good, anyway? someone recommended the photographers' gallery to me, though i haven't tried it yet.

Red Lion Street and Lamb's Conduit street are lined with good cafes, although my favourite greasy spoon remains the one next to the Bowling Alley in Lewisham.

ech. i work near it. it's ok.

update for 2016 please? i need somewhere quiet, interview-friendly in soho...

went to bistro no.1 last year, that was nice and quiet iirc

that looks like more of a restaurant...

think it functions as either but yeah probably not quite cafe enough for your needs

it's a surprisingly tough question. will put it to my gf who would know better

i like this place Blend up in Haringey.

The cafe in Foyle's? But I don't know when the quiet times are or even if there are any.

See Foyles Cafe used to be fairly quiet but now in the nu-Foyles not so much. Depends at what time/day but its still pretty good.

the Delaunay Counter on the Aldwych is a good bet IMO- not quite Soho but near enough...

yeah that place is the best

foyles is definitely not quiet!

ended up going to a caffe nero that looked fairly empty, minute i started the interview the entire world piled in and started yelling at each other and the coffee machines started drilling away non-stop, the minute i stopped everyone left. fuck cafés imo

or maybe just fuck soho

i once had a v good phd supervision going from one end of the victoria line to the other, highly recommended for the formal exchange of ideas

walthamstow benjamin to ludwig brixtonstein