"Wave changes its pancake toppings seasonally and the winter ones made us forget that the sky had been 50 shades of grey for months on end. At the vegan Hackney cafe, a stack of three pillowy, gluten-free pancakes comes drizzled with warming toffee sauce and topped with dollops of coconut-flavoured ‘cream’. It’s beautiful to look at and only improved with a salted coffee—sweetened and speckled with Himalayan salt—on the side. " - heidi lauth beasley, rianne shlebak, sinead cranna