I'M AFRAID SOMEONE'S JUST EMAILED TO TELL ME THIS PLACE HAS CLOSED. BIG SHAME.
Great Scott, this is a magnificent place. Just when I thought I'd seen all the best places on my usual routes I looked in here, which I must have walked past a dozen times this year, and it's brilliant.
It's sort of like a capsule EBCB, a bonsai EBCB. Not the biggest ever but perfect in many regards. Look at those chips to start with, they run the gamut of shapes and sizes, from gorgeous big fattypuffs to shrapnelly thinfers. The bacon is pink like joy and the beans and egg act like sea and shore at the beach, each contrasting with the other to make a perfectly relaxing environ.
It's possible that I've run out of ways to describe egg, bacon, chips and beans.
Suffice to say, this place does a great fry-up.
And all the anciliary joys are in good order. Magnificent condiments. Proud and Victorian.
A great cuppa. My fault for that dribble into the saucer.
And the interior is just lovely. Deep, aged, loved colours and textures. Booths, benches and browns with tiny little additions that grab the eye.
The calendar.
The lights.
Just everything really.
This place is magnificent. Go here.
Looks lovely and it is called 'cafe' itself... Charming...
Posted by: Allan | July 22, 2008 at 05:28 PM
love this cafe, used to live in pimlico and always meaning to go back to the 'cafe' and get some pics for my greasy spoon site.
Thanks for reminding me it was there! i'll go back soon.
Also, its sad to see that the wilton snack bar has changed to a rubbish kebab shop. :(
Posted by: Tex | August 05, 2008 at 01:34 PM
There was a book once, called "Fattypuffs and Thinifers".
Is it even remotely possible that you were referencing that book when describing the chips?
Or is it a common British expression unknown in Canada and I really am the only person living on the planet (except for my sister) who has read it and remembers it fondly?
Posted by: Barb McMahon | September 06, 2008 at 12:50 AM