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By Guy Dimond
This park café overlooking Victoria Park's lake was transformed in August 2007 by tea merchant Rob Green and Australian chef Brett Redman. It now serves a menu of organic produce, rare-breeds meats and artisanal food to the park's many strollers - be warned that pushchairs and toddlers frequently fill the place. Fry-ups are the core of the menu, with moist black pudding and sensational sausages from The Ginger Pig, though do try and save room for the cakes (lemon drizzle, brownies and the like). Tea lovers will be delighted by the award-winning organic Earl Grey tea and the excellent Orange Pekoe (Rob imports these directly from Sri Lanka). The coffees are also excellent, using Monmouth Coffee and Ivy House Farm organic milk. Prices are fair, and the place has a very friendly, happy buzz to it. Rob and Brett are also committed to greening their business, from cutting waste to sourcing line-caught fish of 'safe' species from just outside Brighton.
Guy Dimond May 2008
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Heaving on a sunny day, but still heavenly. The coffee, tea and cakes never disappoint.
Pretty much the only decent Cafe in the area apart from the coffee place on Broadway market .
Phew at last a place which serves great coffee in east london . Ive been a few times having just moved in round the corner there salot of babbies in the week and a more general crowd at the week ends . Foods nice and simple and the benedict is pretty much perfect only advise is if the sun is shining at the weekend get there early -ish as its packed enjoy
Without doubt my favourite spot for breakfast - the best flat white coffee in london and great scrambled eggs on toast
After a few seconds pause looking at the menu to decide what to have, the man obnoxiously says, "ah mate, don't do this to me. make your mind up, and place all your orders at once." (it was a quiet sunday morning.)
After waiting for 20 minutes for my breakfast, I canceled my order and left. The same man,'Rob', mumbled a barely audible apology.
Appalling experience, but then apparently they're heaving with people fighting for tables as it's a great location so they can say what they want and still be busy.