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Cake Shop, Ludlow Street, New York – photos and memories

Fri 7th January, 2011Sat 8th January, 2011 - by editor - 3 Comments.

Situated on New York’s almost-completely gentrified Lower East Side at 152 Ludlow Street is the Cake Shop, a small cafe/music venue where we’ve spent many hours, scoffing bagels, surfing the …

Brixton / Places

Coffee at Goodbench, Brixton

Tue 4th January, 2011Mon 25th July, 2011 - by editor - 1 Comment

It’s ruddy freezing outside and I’ve got a stinky cold, so praise be for the restorative powers of a hot lunch at the Phoenix followed by coffee at the Goodbench …

New York / photos / Places

Bedford Hill Coffee Bar, Bedford-Stuyvesant, NYC

Fri 17th December, 2010Sat 15th January, 2011 - by editor - 1 Comment

We’re happy to tramp quite vast distances in our quest for great cafes and good coffee, and our trek out to the Bedford-Stuyvesant area of Brooklyn was rewarded by excellent beverages …

Brixton / Places

Brixton Village: now open on Sundays

Sun 21st November, 2010 - by editor - Leave a Comment

The success story of Brixton Village continues, with the formerly run down indoor market enjoying a real resurgence – and now opening on Sundays for the first time.

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Brixton snaps: HTC Desire and Vignette app

Thu 18th November, 2010Thu 18th November, 2010 - by editor - Leave a Comment

I got told off for going overboard on the fantastic Vignette photo app on my Android HTC Desire phone, so, suitably chastised for over-egging the photo processing pie, I’ve intentionally …

Brixton / photos / Places

Breads Etcetera opens in Brixton Village

Thu 11th November, 2010Sat 13th November, 2010 - by editor - 1 Comment

Just opened in Brixton Village is Breads Etcetera, another Antipodean-connected operation in the market offering what looks like mighty attractive fare.

Brixton / Places

Barneys Cafe, Loughborough Junction, SW9

Wed 10th November, 2010Mon 21st March, 2011 - by editor - 2 Comments.

Seen here in 2003 where it was facing closure, Barney’s cafe has been serving Loughborough Junction for years.

London / Places

London’s meanest slice of cake? (Tate Modern)

Fri 5th November, 2010Sat 6th November, 2010 - by editor - Leave a Comment

I’ve had some parsimonious pastries, stingy sticky buns, frugal fruitcakes and economical Eccles cakes, but I don’t think anything has ever come close to this miserly, paltry slither of carrot cake …

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Federation Coffee, Brixton Village shimmies into a new shop

Fri 5th November, 2010Fri 5th November, 2010 - by editor - 6 Comments.

Our favourite Brixton coffee shop – Federation Coffee – has just moved from its original intimate surroundings to a bigger unit, just a few metres from the original.

London / Places

Old Tea Rooms, Museum Street, London WC2 [updated]

Wed 3rd November, 2010Wed 3rd November, 2010 - by editor - 6 Comments.

It may be long closed, but the frontage of these old Tea Rooms in central London is still (just about) hanging on to life. Situated close to the British Museum …

Brixton / photos / Places

Brixton street photos: October 2010

Tue 26th October, 2010Tue 26th October, 2010 - by editor - Leave a Comment

Another set of photos snapped around Brixton, London SW9, starting with a night view from the top of the Barrier Block. Scroll on for more!

London / Places

Shoddy goings on at the Photographer’s Gallery, London?

Mon 20th September, 2010Mon 20th September, 2010 - by editor - 2 Comments.

The Photographers’ Gallery in London has long been one of our favourite haunts in central London but closed last weekend for a lengthy, year-long refurbishment which will see major changes …

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Brixton photos: a unicycling busker, street architecture and coffee

Fri 10th September, 2010Mon 12th October, 2020 - by editor - 2 Comments.

You’ve got to give him points for effort here. A unicycling, guitar playing busker wearing rabbit ears sings it out loud outside KFC in central Brixton.

Brixton / London / Places

Federation Coffee, Brixton – London’s finest coffee?

Tue 7th September, 2010Tue 7th September, 2010 - by editor - 19 Comments.

For Brixton’s coffee cognoscenti and caffeine-quaffing connoisseurs of the coffee bean, there’s one truly unmissable place on London’s cafe map, and that’s Federation Coffee.

London / Places

Breakfast at the Polo Bar 24 hour cafe, Liverpool Street, London

Thu 2nd September, 2010Thu 2nd September, 2010 - by editor - 10 Comments.

It’s not often we get invited to a press event at a traditional British ‘greasy spoon’ cafe, but when the offer of a free breakfast at the Polo Bar cafe …

London / Places

The Counter cafe, Hackney Wick, E3 – another great London coffee house

Sun 29th August, 2010 - by editor - 3 Comments.

I love it when we stumble across a fine coffee in an unlikely place, and we definitely came up trumps on Saturday when we visited the Counter cafe in east …

Brixton / Places

The Goodbench – another independent Brixton coffee bar opens!

Tue 24th August, 2010Sat 1st June, 2013 - by editor - Leave a Comment

Caffeine freaks are getting very spoilt in Brixton, with another independent coffee shop opening up in SW9 this week.

London / Places

Yumchaa tea rooms, Soho: possibly the finest tea in London

Tue 11th May, 2010Tue 11th May, 2010 - by editor - 3 Comments.

This is a lovely tea shop/cafe in the heart of Soho. You can smell the leaves of the many blends on offer before ordering, and they do some pretty fine …

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Boneshakers cafe, Brooklyn

Wed 7th January, 2009 - by editor - Leave a Comment

After the death-by-yuppie demise of our favourite Williamsburg cafe, the Read Cafe on Bedford, we’d been looking for a good hang out cafe in Brooklyn. We still like the Atlas …