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- Cafe Beam settles on Muswell Hill for its next opening
The cafe scene in North London got a boost last week when boutique cafe group Beam announced that their next opening would be in Muswell Hill.
If you haven't come across them before (they have branches in Crouch End. Highbury and Notting Hill), Beam's big sell is the all day breakfast and brunch offering, mixing English and Mediterranean influences. So while you can get a full English here, there's also shakshuka, Turkish
... - Highgate's Bottle wine shop expands to become a licensed cafe too
Back in the dark days of the lockdowns, we happened about Bottle - a lovely wine shop in Highgate that seemed to stock some particularly good wines and beers. Now we hear that they've just expanded into the site next door to become a fully-fledged 'licensed cafe and store'.
That licensed cafe bit is important because while they are now a wine bar, they're also going to be open from breakfast serving up
... - Café Leon Dore opens in London at Aimé Leon Dore's flagship store in Soho
London's cafe scene got a boost at the weekend when fashion and lifestyle brand Aimé Leon Dore opened their London flagship store in Soho. Why it's of interest to us is that it means that, like the original store in New York, London now has a Café Leon Dore.
The hip walnut-panelled, marble-floored café serves up a shortish menu that they say is "inspired by Greek culture". That means you'll be able to order Freddo Espresso
... - Finsbury Park's Common Ground cafe dishes up a new evening menu
Finsbury Park's Common Ground is a bit of a Dishoom, in that there's always a queue outside it. Now the popular North London cafe is capitalising on its popularity with the daytime crowd, by extending its hours and serving up a new evening menu.
The menu, which launched a few weeks back, saw owner and chef Lucy Jones team up with her friend and consultant chef, Emma Duggan who has worked
... - Caravan are opening a Brewbar at their North London roastery
Caravan have expanded to many parts of London, Canary Wharf being the most recent, but now they're adding something new to their main roastery just off Caledonian Road.
Until now, the roastery has been just that - roasting and supplying coffee to all their restaurants (and elsewhere)
... - Chaiiwala are coming to Dalston Junction
Last month they opened their 50th store, in Knightsbridge, with fans including Konan and boxer Amir Khan. Now the UK-based South East Indian cafe chain Chaiiwala have set their sights on Dalston.
The company was founded in Leicester by a family whose great grandfather was indeed a chai wallah in Delhi back in the 1920s. Since then they've been opening places like crazy across the UK and London.
In addition to
... - New Islington cafe TRAMPOLINE serves up hope to refugees
If you prefer your morning coffee to come with a side order of goodwill, then a new cafe opening in Angel next week sounds like just the place for you.
TRAMPOLINE is a new social enterprise cafe by Founder Pranav Chopra on Camden Passage which is all about helping refugees to the UK enter the workforce. How they do that is by working with Groundwork London and Hotel School a hospitality training
... - Bread Ahead pops up at Southwark Cathedral
Promising loaves, if not fishes, the new Bread Ahead Cafe popping up for a six-month residency at Southwark Cathedral is going to be shaking up their food offering. From today, guests heading to the cathedral's cafe for sustenance will have all manner of carby delights to enjoy.
The bakery's founder, Matthew Jones, said he was "absolutely delighted to be opening up a new space at the Southwark
... - How Matcha! is Marylebone's new coffee and cake shop devoted to the green powder
If oh-so-Instagrammable drinks and cakes are your deal, then you'll be wanting to hotfoot it to Marylebone next week where a very photogenic-sounding cafe is opening.
How Matcha! - the clue is in the name - will be ALL about matcha, whether that's in cake or tea form. The drinks have been created so they're as good hot as they are on ice, which will be handy for days on which the British summer deigns to show
... - Anya Hindmarch launches Anya Café as part of her Pont Street 'village' in Knightsbridge
As part of the new Anya Hindmarch The Village in Pont Street, this all-day cafe is serving up food inspired by the designer's sense of humour.
- Cut The Mustard adds a second cafe in Tooting
Independent cafe Cut The Mustard has been a Tooting success story since 2014 and just before we all entered Tier 3, they managed to launch a second cafe. It's also in Tooting - this time a corner space on Franciscan Road. And the good news is they're doing takeaway.
Part bakery, part cafe, their sourdough is at the heart of the bakery - with porridge, wholewheat and rosemary and polenta options all
... - The Good Plot deli and restaurant on Westbourne Grove is Mandy Lieu's Notting Hill ethical project
Model Mandy Lieu is behind the transformation of this Westbourne Grove spot into an all-day restaurant and deli aiming to connect Londoners with where their food comes from.
- Hackney's Towpath Cafe is reopening for the winter
We really are in unusual times. One of the things that regulars of Hackney's oh-so-popular Towpath Cafe know is that it's an ephemeral, seasonal kinda place - opening with the onset of summer and closing as Autumn arrives. But this weekend, owners Lori De Mori and Laura Jackson revealed that, along with most of London's hospitality world, they'd also be reopening.
In a post on Instagram, they said:
... - The Conticini Café at Camden's Buck Street Market sees top pastry chef Philippe Conticini settle in North London
Top French pastry chef Philippe Conticini must really like Camden. He's chosen that part of town to open his second patisserie there this year. Having opened a Salon de The in the North Yard of Camden Market mere weeks before lockdown, this new 40-seater Conticini Café at the Buck Street Market will be a more casual affair. You'll be able to buy his pastries, but there'll also be an on-site boulangerie, freshly baked
... - Hackney's Towpath Cafe has reopened - with dinner service planned and a new book on the way
One of London's best loved cafes reopens for business today. The announcement that Hackney's Towpath Cafe would reopen will surely be met with joy by its legions of fans. In a post on their website, owners Lori De Mori and Laura Jackson said that from this morning they'd be open Thursday through to Sunday.
In addition to their gorgeous breakfasts and lunch dishes, they'll be doing a dinner service on Thursdays, Fridays and Saturdays. "One
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