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Thu Oct 18 2012
Set in the backstreets of Dalston, this place is essentially a neighbourhood café, offering good coffee, a friendly welcome and a short, simple blackboard menu: chilli-sprinkled avocado or own-made baked beans on toast, say, or pancakes piled with fruit. The hot breakfast pide is about as elaborate as it gets: a slab of Turkish flatbread filled with egg mayonnaise, cheese, ham, spinach and chilli jam; a cure for the most sinister of hangovers.
Early arrivals can choose from a handful of pavement tables, the sagging sofa and armchair in one corner or the square communal table, with its teapot of flowers, stack of newspapers and help-yourself pots of jams and honey; a narrow window seat accommodates the overflow. The laid-back, anything-goes attitude extends to the decor, with a different local artist given free rein to paint on the walls and install their work for two-month stints; the back wall, meanwhile, functions as an ad-hoc loyalty scheme, scrawled from floor to ceiling with regulars’ names and a star for every coffee they’ve bought. Remember to bring cash as there’s no card machine, and look out for JH Lynch’s kitschly suggestive portrait of Tina by the counter.
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