Frizzante@Mudchute

Time Out says

Thu Oct 18 2012

Frizzante, the company that runs the lovely café at Hackney City Farm, took on Mudchute Kitchen in spring 2011 (having already taken over the café at Surrey Docks City Farm). You’ll find the café in the middle of Mudchute City Farm, a short walk from Mudchute DLR station. It’s a world away from the towers of Canary Wharf, which poke up over the fields to the north. The café looks as it always did, with wooden tables, shelves of books, white walls and posters about Isle of Dogs inhabitants.

The kitchen is noticeably better organised, however. Most customers are family groups, here to pet and feed the animals, and the food reflects this. The kids’ menu includes scrambled egg or beans on toast and a variety of pastas, while adults are offered a hearty meat dish, plus salad, soup and pasta options. The coffee is excellent and the small selection of cakes and Italian ice-creams superb. Staff are friendly (once you’ve got their attention) and seem very relaxed about people eating their own picnics on the large terrace overlooking the stables.