Just a quick recommendation: Cafe Mozart, on Swain's Lane in Dartmouth Park. It's one of those places I just never quite got round to visiting whilst I lived in Kentish Town, and more fool me, although I suppose I'd be a very tubby Frau Dietz by now if I had known about it. The gorgeous Miss Gabby Young (full of excitement after her adventures at London Fashion Week), Revere frontman Stephen Ellis and yours truly just popped in for a feed and I tell you, I was absolutely gobsmacked at just how good it was.
It's a fairly dark and pokey affair with hundreds of chairs parked outside either in hope or continued success; a few other tables were filled with coffee drinkers but sitting by the window it was somewhat lacking in atmosphere. In a fit of poshness I ordered the smoked salmon and scrambled eggs on rye toast (£6.50): the scrambled eggs were just as I like them, soft and yellow, neither runny nor firm; the salmon was TO DIE FOR, extraordinarily smooth and full of flavour; and even the rye toast was inexplicably tasty (and so on this occasion, the irritating gluten intolerance pays off). Gabby had a "small" Eggs Benedict (£3.50) , just the one egg and the one muffin with some slightly-too-liquid Hollandaise - I don't remember spotting any ham - that she declared to be excellent, just a bit too small. Steve plumped for the Full English (£6.75) which looked pretty standard apart from a very good-looking sausage; it got polished off pretty smartly and without complaint. All very generous portions indeed, and the service wasn't bad at all, if a little slow.
All in all, very lovely indeed, just a shame we weren't there on one of Clive Owen's visits. Dammit.
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