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Time Out says
Thu Oct 18 2012
Enter Tom’s through a mini sweetshop of retro delights: flying saucers, liquorice and bars of delicious chocolate. The basement deli has posh cupboard treats, fine charcuterie and cheeses – as well as, come lunchtime, hot dishes such as fish curry or lasagne, and a variety of salads. Climb up a few stairs to the café-diner, which continues the retro theme with a clutch of booths with Formica tables bearing bottles of HP sauce and Heinz ketchup, and walls covered in advertising memorabilia and the odd Shepard Fairey or Banksy print. The soundtrack is an equally old-school Bowie/Stones/American blues mash-up.
The simple menu consists mainly of breakfasts – which accounts for the venue’s popularity with Notting Hillbillies at the weekend. Alongside the full english, and a vegetarian version, there are a dozen different ways with eggs. Unfortunately, not all are a success. The kitchen’s use of tinned tomatoes in the ‘Turkish Steamer’ (eggs steamed on a bed of tomato with wilted spinach, feta and yoghurt) made the dish far too watery. To drink, decent Kimbo coffees give way in the evening to bloody marys, Meantime Pale Ale and Pilsner, and wines.
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