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| IRedchurch Cafe E2: Spavine in Shoreditch - King Ronnie's masterpiece |
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Ashen Italian patriarch Ronnie runs this brilliant parlour caff on the verges of Shoreditch. Features include: original shop pilasters and consoles; achromatic Formica tables; ornate 50s wallpaper; blaring paintwork; proud Thonet chairs; deco wallposters; authentic pegboard menu; clattering dumb-waiter and rat-run ablutions. (Lots of vitrified 1934 LwH Dudson Bros. tableware too). It's very much in the mould of the deceased Tea Rooms in Museum Street W1 (or Don's in Clapton E5) - a hard core classic caff with ambience readings that sputter into the red on the Pinter-meter. Yes indeed, 36 Redchurch Street E2 is sublime! Antiquated. Beleaguered. Crummy. Decayed. Dingy. Enfeebled. Gimped. Ramshackle. Run-down. Sidelined. Spavine. Weather-beaten... But beautiful. Precious cargo indeed in an area overrun with lofts, Jake and Dinos lookalikes and wannabe St*rbucks junkies. And a much needed antidote
to the welter of Nathan
Barley Hoxton-tot nu-bar-booze-portals
which glut the area. - Redchurch E2: Photo
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