Restaurants

This daytime café, inside an art exhibition building, has been serving up wholesome vegetarian brunches and lunches since September 2008. Customers press a buzzer to enter what was once the basement of a late Victorian school; the heavy flagstones and pillars give it a crypt-like feel. But the service is cheery and uplifting, and the dishes freshly prepared with real care using high-quality ingredients. On our visit the hard-to-resist main course was gözleme, a Turkish flatbread filled with a mash of potato, dill and caraway; this was accompanied by a chickpea salad, pert salad leaves and couscous (£4.80). This would have been a meal in itself, but we had to try the rhubarb and polenta cake (£2): moist, and neither too tart nor too sweet. The coffee’s from Monmouth, and breakfast includes own-made breads for toasting.

Time Out London Issue 2016: April 9-15 2009