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Category Archives: My Lunchtime Refection Quest
Netil Market – Terrone and Cooking Cooks
Tweet I do struggle to disassociate Netil Market from Lucky Chip. For Lucky Chip was, in the early days, the sole reason for my traipsing that far East and the only way to get my hands on those burgers. A … Continue reading
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Tagged coffee, Cooking Cooks, East London, Italian, market, Meatballs, Netil Market, pasta, Terrone
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Talkhouse
TweetWaiting for a cafe you know is due to open imminently and you suspect, based on fairly informed knowledge, is going to be good, is about as captivating as watching white wash being applied to exposed brick work, as nauseating … Continue reading
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Tagged cafe, coffee, coffee shop, James Gourmet, Notting Hill, Portobello, Scandinavian, Talkhouse, West London, Workshop Coffee
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Browns of Brockley
TweetThe London coffee landscape has changed immeasurably over just the last few years, the evolution already in full throttle when I started my own little journey and entered into the acutely caffeine sharpened world I am now becoming increasingly immersed … Continue reading
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Tagged Brockley, Browns, Browns of Brockley, cafe, coffee, coffee shop, espresso, filter, Flourish, Ludd, pug, South East London, Square Mile
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Vagabond
TweetI’d heard nothing but positive things about Vagabond since they opened around a year ago but I just couldn’t get motivated about hauling myself all the way to Finsbury Park. Shame on me. A couple of guys I chat to … Continue reading
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Tagged cafe, coffee, coffee shop, espresso, filter, Finsbury Park, Hasbean, North London, Vagabond
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Embassy East
TweetIt’s funny how sometimes you just have a feeling that a new coffee shop is going to be good isn’t it? An inkling or suspicion. Maybe it’s subliminal; the signs and ingredients are there, they just don’t register at the … Continue reading
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Tagged cafe, coffee, coffee shop, East London, Embassy East, espresso, haggis toastie, Hoxton, Hoxton Street, mug, Workshop Coffee
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Bambino
TweetI feel bad that it’s taken me so long to write about Bambino in Crystal Palace, as a South Londoner I think there’s often seen to be a duty to write about places in your own hood, represent your corner … Continue reading
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Tagged Bambino, cafe, coffee, coffee shop, Crystal Palace, espresso, Espresso Doctor, Extract Coffee, Hasbean, Intelcrem
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Honey & Co
Tweet I’ve had my ear to the ground for info around the shortly opened Honey and Co, it has on paper a lot of things going for it; not least that the husband and wife team behind the little restaurant have an … Continue reading
Cafe Viva
Tweet Cafe Viva has been open a short while now and I made it my mission to visit, as not only a South East London dweller, but an ex Peckham Rye resident, it’s always pleasing to see good coffee shops … Continue reading
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Tagged cafe, Cafe Viva, Choumert Road, coffee, coffee shop, Peckham, South East London, Volcano, Volcano Coffee
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Coffee Shops – New Openings – an update on some of my favourites and thoughts in general
TweetThere has been much talk recently about where the London coffee scene is going and how it can evolve and develop. The concern seems to be that newer ventures are merely mimicking popular models rather than innovating and pushing the scene forward, resulting … Continue reading
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Tagged 193, cafes, coffee, Coffee and Music, Fernandez & Wells, Kings Cross, London, new, Notes, soho, South Kensington, Tapped and Packed, Wardour Street
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The Espresso Room
TweetThe Espresso Room is just that. A room, literally little more than a broom cupboard in terms of size, that serves espresso’s and espresso based drinks. Only it’s so much more than that, because those espresso’s are without doubt some of the best … Continue reading
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Tagged Ben Townsend, Bloomsbury, cafe, coffee, Great Ormond Street, London, The Espresso Room
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