
5

"After a successful central London coffee residency, owners Anthony Khouri and Tom Hibbert have opened their first permanent café in Brockley (formal opening 19 March, with a soft launch already underway). The venue continues to platform roasters from across London, the U.K. and Europe, while Hibbert — formerly group chef at the Gentlemen Baristas — contributes an inventive lunch program that so far includes gozleme and a truffle mushroom melt; during their time at Sharps in Fitzrovia they also ran substantial puff-pastry tarts at the counter. The operation presents as a high-quality, community-minded specialty coffee spot and a fresh contender in the growing, more varied south-east London café scene." - James Hansen