It seems that eggbaconchipsandbeans.com has been nominated as one of the 'Yahoo! Finds Of The Year'. Which is nice. And if you click here you can vote for me. And if you did that I'd be your best friend.
It started as a page about my personal obsession with the traditional British fry-up - specifically egg, bacon, chips and beans. Which is what I always order. But it (along with this page) has also become a way of documenting a quickly disappearing slice of British culture - the traditional cafe. And it's become a place where people are discussing the idea of a Cafe Preservation Society. (See here and here ). (And if you want to see more great cafes then hi yourself hither, hither, hither and, of course, thither.
For everyone who's been talking about the Cafe Preservation thing. This is what I'd suggest should happen next.
I had a cup of tea a while back with Adrian Maddox (creator of classic cafes and author of the definitive classic cafes book). He's become the authority on this stuff so it'd be great to have him involved. He seems keen to do something, but clearly has lots of his own irons in the fire and they're keeping him busy. (And he probably thinks I'm a wimpy corporate apologist. Which is fair.)
But anyway, I think we should just plough on with something. At least move the conversation off the internet and into a cafe. So who's up for a cup of tea somewhere central? (if we made it the New Piccadilly maybe Adrian would come) How about one evening at the end of Feb? We could meet up, chat, work out what we want to do. And then report back to everyone not in Central London.
Thoughts?
I'll be there.
Posted by: Ian T | January 08, 2005 at 05:31 PM