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Caffs Not Cafes Finds the Magic in London’s Old School Joints
Gingham curtains line the windows, oxblood linoleum covers the floors, the rest is all laminate tables and beautifully brown fixed seating
Isaac Rangaswami • The Caff Is One of Britain’s Cultural Treasures – But if We Don’t Eat in Them, They’ll Disappear
The draw of big cities, like New York, London, LA, or Tokyo is that they are made of a series of distinct, colorful neighborhoods, each with their own identity, vibe, and demographic. What makes them different are the small, local, mom-and-pop shops—not the chains of identical mass retail stores.
Adam Wray • The Shape of Post-Covid Retail
When a café executed the generic aesthetic particularly well, or innovated with some added novelty, I was giddily pleased and relished the well-balanced blankness. Patti Smith has written that as she got older, she still went to cafés to write and ordered a cappuccino each time, but didn’t need to actually drink the cappuccino; its presence on the
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