Tucked away off the main drag of Brixton’s Coldharbour Lane is Cafe Sitifis, a friendly cafe serving up a reasonably-priced selection of meze, hot and cold paninis, cooked and continental breakfasts, …
Cafe Sitifis review, 11 Rushcroft Road, London SW2 1JS Read More
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 …
Cake Shop, Ludlow Street, New York – photos and memories Read More
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 …
Coffee at Goodbench, Brixton Read More
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 …
Bedford Hill Coffee Bar, Bedford-Stuyvesant, NYC Read More
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.
Brixton Village: now open on Sundays Read More
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 snaps: HTC Desire and Vignette app Read More
Just opened in Brixton Village is Breads Etcetera, another Antipodean-connected operation in the market offering what looks like mighty attractive fare.
Breads Etcetera opens in Brixton Village Read More
Seen here in 2003 where it was facing closure, Barney’s cafe has been serving Loughborough Junction for years.
Barneys Cafe, Loughborough Junction, SW9 Read More
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 …
London’s meanest slice of cake? (Tate Modern) Read More
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.
Federation Coffee, Brixton Village shimmies into a new shop Read More
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 …
Old Tea Rooms, Museum Street, London WC2 [updated] Read More
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!
Brixton street photos: October 2010 Read More
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 …
Shoddy goings on at the Photographer’s Gallery, London? Read More
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 photos: a unicycling busker, street architecture and coffee Read More
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.
Federation Coffee, Brixton – London’s finest coffee? Read More
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 …
Breakfast at the Polo Bar 24 hour cafe, Liverpool Street, London Read More
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 …
The Counter cafe, Hackney Wick, E3 – another great London coffee house Read More
Caffeine freaks are getting very spoilt in Brixton, with another independent coffee shop opening up in SW9 this week.
The Goodbench – another independent Brixton coffee bar opens! Read More
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 …
Yumchaa tea rooms, Soho: possibly the finest tea in London Read More
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 …
Boneshakers cafe, Brooklyn Read More
A much loved London cafe lost forever. April 2006 December 2007 Read my photo feature: The New Piccadilly Café, 8 Denman Street, Piccadilly, London
Goodbye New Piccadilly cafe Read More