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It's the clamour of families ruddy-cheeked from a visit to Hackney City Farm that saves the large main space of the farm's high-ceilinged café from feeling a little cold. The outdoor area, buffered from Hackney Road by a container garden, is a more atmospheric spot.
Yes, Frizzante has a functionality-over-style vibe, but it also has a confident-sounding menu. Sadly, the cooking was found wanting on our most recent visit. An octopus and cuttlefish salad was clean-tasting, though the grilled polenta underneath was soggy, while a frittata was almost as chewy as the woodchip underfoot. Potato, leek and stilton soup may have been a mite autumnal for an August menu, but it hit an appropriately rustic note.
Breakfasts - meat or vegetarian options - looked to be better value than our choices. That sausage might repeat on you when you visit the pigsty, though.
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020 7739 2266
Lunch served 10am-4pm Tue-Sun. Dinner served 7-10pm Thur
Main courses £5-£17
Credit cards MC, V
Facilities
Tables outdoors ( 10, park ), Babies and children welcome ( children's menu; high chairs; nappy-changing facilities ), Booking advisable ( dinner ), Available for hire ( autumn and winter only ), Disabled ( toilet )Pure delight. Don't get put off by the children!
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