A bright and friendly place in Primrose Hill. It had a celebrity opening. It's got a shelf of old LRBs. Cafes aren't dead.
You can self medicate the milk. The tea bag comes 'in'. Fully customisable tea. Excellent.
Minimal. Like ambient techno.
But bright, with sunsets. Like euphoric house.
A fab place. Get yourself along.
Look at it. It's like Paris, only good.
What do you want in a cafe?
You want the basics done right. What does Luis' do? It does the basic right.
You want a solid cup of tea. A spoon.
You want the papers.
You want a door.
You want a riddle. Obvs. The basics.
And you want a crowd of posties complaining about management (FAIR ENOUGH!). Which meant I didn't take more photos. I got the impression they didn't want go viral.
Luis is a fantastic place. Get yourself there. (There's a single photo from the days when it was Luigi's over here, and Luis features in this excellent #fontfriday thread)
I think DeeGee's was our first post-pandemic fry-up opportunity. (I say 'post', fingers crossed...). What a magnificent place to get back into the swing of things.
It's just off the main drag in Cardigan so a selection of signs lure you towards its culinary treasures.
And then - there it is!
Bright, clean and lovely inside. Friendly welcome. A magnificent 'small breakfast' (a phenomenon we first encountered in Cardigan many years ago, basically seems to mean one of everything).
Excellently iconoclastic condiment cluster. Much rounder and broader than the usual assortment of vertiginous shapes.
Tea delivery is textbook. A little bottle so you can self-dose your milk. Bag left in, for obvious reasons. And there's a little dish for the bags. Perfect. See in use below.
See? You can't fault that arrangement.
What an optimistic and thoughtful place to re-enter cafe life. Thanks DeeGee's.
I was on my way somewhere else and I ended up here. So then I was on my way here. Because this is the place to end up.
A very respectable cup of tea. Thick. Delicious. Gloopy.
Lots of blue. You don't see lovely blue seats like these in a cafe very often. Almost Klein blue. Splendid choice.
Nice to see a well-equipped condiment basket too.
A lovely place. I could spend hours here.
This is a lovely little place. A simple, proper cafe amongst the fanciness of Shoreditch. Scrambled egg on toast and a cuppa for £3.20.
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That lovely floor suggest there's been something here for a while. Probably a cafe?
It's a proper modern cafe now though. All mod condiments.
Everything you could imagine wanting to eat. Nothing else.
Sitting and having a chat - encouraged. Or sitting and having a think.
A brilliant place. Get yourself along there.