| Splendid old caff that's been with
the same family since 1925. The front room is a fantasy of marble-mint
Formica set under sparkling Vitrolite; chrome edged tables are
packed tight opposite an original counter which has a huge 1930s
extractor pipe hovering over the tea boiler and a giant old English
Electric fridge at the back; the upper walls are lined with authentic
1950s tobacco posters. The back room is a veritable caff museum:
lined with emerald and off-white tiles; Victorian marble tables;
a working grandfather clock that still chimes the hours; black-lacquer
bentwood coathangers; framed menus from the past and beaten-silver
signs embossed with the words 'Teas' and 'Suppers'. Overwhelming.
Emotional. Essential. |
