Category: Cafe

Algerian Coffee Stores, Old Compton Street

I think this might be the finest smelling shop in London. Like its neighbour I Camisa & Son it is a tiny establishment in Old Compton Street, but…

In search of Geoffrey Fletcher’s Little Italy

The Italian community in Clerkenwell, which had grown from a handful of emigrants fleeing the revolutions in Italy in the 1840’s into a full “colony” of several thousand…

It’s fun to eat at the (Indian) YMCA

I’ve walked past this place on my daily lunchtime perambulation for the past four years. It has always caught my eye. In my ignorance, I’d never considered that…

Everything’s gone green: the court of the paviour

At the end of the seventeenth century, Edward Wardour, who developed this part of Soho, leased a plot of to the man who lay his paving slabs, one…

Going underground

Actually you can’t “go” here anymore. This subterranean pissoir is no longer abluted by its passing clientele. These days, customers buy coffee and cakes, not drop the kids…