― Archel (Archel), Tuesday, 6 April 2004 12:00 (twenty years ago) link
― Matt DC (Matt DC), Tuesday, 6 April 2004 12:01 (twenty years ago) link
― Tracer Hand (tracerhand), Tuesday, 6 April 2004 12:01 (twenty years ago) link
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.
― David (David), Tuesday, 6 April 2004 12:04 (twenty years ago) link
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.
― Jerry the Nipper (Jerrynipper), Tuesday, 6 April 2004 12:05 (twenty years ago) link
― N. (nickdastoor), Tuesday, 6 April 2004 12:06 (twenty years ago) link
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― Jerry the Nipper (Jerrynipper), Tuesday, 6 April 2004 12:10 (twenty years ago) link
― N. (nickdastoor), Tuesday, 6 April 2004 12:11 (twenty years ago) link
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(
― chris (chris), Tuesday, 6 April 2004 12:13 (twenty years ago) link
― Matt DC (Matt DC), Tuesday, 6 April 2004 12:14 (twenty years ago) link
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.
― suzy (suzy), Tuesday, 6 April 2004 12:23 (twenty years ago) link
― Tracer Hand (tracerhand), Tuesday, 6 April 2004 13:00 (twenty years ago) link
Where's that exactly?
― David (David), Tuesday, 6 April 2004 13:11 (twenty years ago) link
― Madchen (Madchen), Tuesday, 6 April 2004 13:13 (twenty years ago) link
― David (David), Tuesday, 6 April 2004 13:18 (twenty years ago) link
― Tracer Hand (tracerhand), Tuesday, 6 April 2004 13:19 (twenty years ago) link
― Liz :x (Liz :x), Tuesday, 6 April 2004 13:21 (twenty years ago) link
― Tracer Hand (tracerhand), Tuesday, 6 April 2004 13:22 (twenty years ago) link
― David (David), Tuesday, 6 April 2004 13:26 (twenty years ago) link
― Madchen (Madchen), Tuesday, 6 April 2004 13:36 (twenty years ago) link
― David (David), Tuesday, 6 April 2004 13:44 (twenty years ago) link
― Madchen (Madchen), Tuesday, 6 April 2004 13:58 (twenty years ago) link
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.
― lauren (laurenp), Tuesday, 6 April 2004 13:58 (twenty years ago) link
― James Mitchell (James Mitchell), Tuesday, 6 April 2004 17:11 (twenty years ago) link
― N. (nickdastoor), Tuesday, 6 April 2004 22:01 (twenty years ago) link
tell me of favourites in holloway/archway, camberwell/peckham, or stepney/whitechapel,
― charltonlido (gareth), Thursday, 14 July 2005 12:47 (eighteen years ago) link
― Marcello Carlin (nostudium), Thursday, 14 July 2005 12:52 (eighteen years ago) link
― Jerry the Nipper (Jerrynipper), Thursday, 14 July 2005 13:01 (eighteen years ago) link
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.
― Tim (Tim), Thursday, 14 July 2005 13:03 (eighteen years ago) link
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
― charltonlido (gareth), Thursday, 14 July 2005 13:05 (eighteen years ago) link
― Colonel Poo (Colonel Poo), Thursday, 14 July 2005 13:06 (eighteen years ago) link
― lauren (laurenp), Thursday, 14 July 2005 13:07 (eighteen years ago) link
― terry lennox. (gareth), Monday, 3 October 2005 11:56 (eighteen years ago) link
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.
― Paranoid Spice (kate), Monday, 3 October 2005 12:01 (eighteen years ago) link
― Ed (dali), Monday, 3 October 2005 12:39 (eighteen years ago) link
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.
― ken c (ken c), Monday, 3 October 2005 12:42 (eighteen years ago) link
― chap who would dare to kill all the threads (chap), Monday, 3 October 2005 13:02 (eighteen years ago) link
― Jerry the Nipper (Jerrynipper), Monday, 6 February 2006 12:30 (eighteen years ago) link
― toby (tsg20), Monday, 6 February 2006 13:40 (eighteen years ago) link
― Jerry the Nipper (Jerrynipper), Monday, 6 February 2006 13:54 (eighteen years ago) link
where else is good, anyway? someone recommended the photographers' gallery to me, though i haven't tried it yet.
― toby (tsg20), Monday, 6 February 2006 14:01 (eighteen years ago) link
― powpowpow, Monday, 6 February 2006 14:04 (eighteen years ago) link
I've been going to Andrewes a lot recently for the comfort-food lunches; they seem to have had an interior refit but the furniture and facade are still the same, and the kitchen is still good. Escalope, mash and peas for £5!
I am pretty spoilt for breakfast - nothing but Smiths of Smithfield or Konstam will do, since I DO NOT get on with budget sausage of any kind, and these places seem to have a minimum quality threshold of giving you a Cumberland at the very least.
― suzy (suzy), Monday, 6 February 2006 14:08 (eighteen years ago) link
SoS' mustard is a wee too fierce for me, but good sausages and nice thick white bread. £3.50 for a sausage sandwich stretches it a bit but no matter.
― ambrose (ambrose), Monday, 6 February 2006 14:30 (eighteen years ago) link
― RoxyMuzak© (roxymuzak), Monday, 6 February 2006 14:33 (eighteen years ago) link
― terry lennox. (gareth), Monday, 6 February 2006 14:37 (eighteen years ago) link
― powpowpow, Monday, 6 February 2006 15:10 (eighteen years ago) link
i found a peruvian cafe, by london bridge station. didn't seem very peruvian though
― michael hayes (688), Tuesday, 25 July 2006 10:38 (seventeen years ago) link
― -- (688), Tuesday, 25 July 2006 10:41 (seventeen years ago) link
ech. i work near it. it's ok.
― Roughage Crew (Enrique), Tuesday, 25 July 2006 12:28 (seventeen years ago) link
― lauren (laurenp), Tuesday, 25 July 2006 12:36 (seventeen years ago) link
update for 2016 please? i need somewhere quiet, interview-friendly in soho...
― cher guevara (lex pretend), Tuesday, 9 February 2016 16:20 (eight years ago) link
went to bistro no.1 last year, that was nice and quiet iirc
― odysseus (imago), Tuesday, 9 February 2016 16:28 (eight years ago) link
that looks like more of a restaurant...
― cher guevara (lex pretend), Tuesday, 9 February 2016 16:48 (eight years ago) link
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
― odysseus (imago), Tuesday, 9 February 2016 17:01 (eight years ago) link
i like this place Blend up in Haringey.
― akm, Tuesday, 9 February 2016 22:30 (eight years ago) link
The cafe in Foyle's? But I don't know when the quiet times are or even if there are any.
― ljubljana, Wednesday, 10 February 2016 19:18 (eight years ago) link
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.
― xyzzzz__, Thursday, 11 February 2016 13:10 (eight years ago) link
the Delaunay Counter on the Aldwych is a good bet IMO- not quite Soho but near enough...
― Gaz upon my works ye mighty, and despair (Neil S), Thursday, 11 February 2016 13:53 (eight years ago) link
yeah that place is the best
― japanese mage (LocalGarda), Thursday, 11 February 2016 15:05 (eight years ago) link
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
― cher guevara (lex pretend), Thursday, 11 February 2016 18:37 (eight years ago) link
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
― lazy rascals, spending their substance, and more, in riotous living (Merdeyeux), Friday, 12 February 2016 01:54 (eight years ago) link
walthamstow benjamin to ludwig brixtonstein
― odysseus (imago), Friday, 12 February 2016 01:59 (eight years ago) link