― 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
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― 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
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― 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
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― 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
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― 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.
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― 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
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― 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
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― Anna (Anna), Tuesday, 25 July 2006 12:13 (seventeen years ago) link
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.
― Matt DC (Matt DC), Tuesday, 25 July 2006 12:18 (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
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