lovely. generous portions. nice crunchy chips. everything has its place, nothing on top of anything else.
don't forget the sauce.
oops. the playmobil man's had a heart attack. sky 2 is an old favourite since we live round the corner. there's a lot going on. it's a proper no-frills, small/family business cafe.
the 'condiment cluster' is always a sign of a good cafe. is everything there? is it arranged in a way that makes sense? this is a classic format.
a good cafe also has arbritary and pointless rules. what does 'set menu can not be changed' actually mean? and a good cafe always makes fullsome use of clip art.
look, out of the window, a nice moment for a cafe, some poor devil who's broken down.
this is one of the little details i like about this place. it's called sky 2, it says so outside. because the same people also own the sky cafe at the other end of the same street, 2 minutes walk south. i presume it was called the hanson cafe before they took it over. because they're still got a lot of hanson menus and they wear a combination of hanson and sky branded t-shirts. it's a great place, lovely people.
And here's 10 minutes of audio recorded one tuesday morning in sky 2
I was in the area today, having a look around Fitzrovia, which I know reasonably well.
There's a small sandwich bar close by called the Gallery, I think. Unfortunately, both cafes were closed, either due to the time, 5pm, or the fact that they're both shut on Saturday.
The sandwich bar looks interesting, a single storey building sandwiched (pun intended) between two larger buildings.
Any chance of a photoshoot of this place ?
Posted by: Patrick | October 16, 2004 at 07:10 PM
yes, I'd love to do this place. It has a very determined nautical theme. I'm slightly too intimidated to use my camera though, because it's so small. I'll try a few more visits first.
Posted by: russell davies | October 22, 2004 at 04:17 PM
Love the way the 'Under new Management' sign is kept close to hand....just in case i presume.
Top stuff
Posted by: Andy | February 20, 2005 at 05:44 PM
So glad I found this page... went there on Saturday, so well over a year after the last post, and the place is still going strong. Got the 'set menu 2' and added extra bacon and sausage to end up with beans, 2 eggs, 2 sausages, 4 slabs of bacon, 3 slices of black pudding and 2 thick slices of toast. All washed down with two mugs of sweet milky tea.
It was fantastic... Only negative point would be the sausage, but then, since I don't live in the UK I always get specialist sausages from the butcher when I visit, so a slightly unfair comparason.
It had been years since I was last in a greesy spoon, and it was all I remembered to to be :D
Malc
Posted by: Malcolm | July 31, 2006 at 01:19 PM