The Allotment Kitchen- Stepney High Street
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Seasonal cafe with creative brunch, fantastic cakes, and coffee
Seasonal cafe with creative brunch, fantastic cakes, and coffee
"The Allotment Kitchen is where we go to escape London, when we’re too lazy to actually leave London. The cafe, part of Stepney City Farm, is a leafy, fairy light-sprinkled oasis that draws nature-starved Londoners with the promise of excellent, creative brunch dishes and winning honeycomb-topped Guinness cake. Plus, you’ll eat your orange mascarpone french toast while sitting at a table fashioned from a tree trunk, as the friendly farm cat curls around your legs." - heidi lauth beasley, jake missing, rianne shlebak
"The Allotment Kitchen—part of Stepney City Farm—is the kind of leafy, fairy light-sprinkled oasis that draws nature-starved Londoners with the promise of Baileys hot chocolate and honeycomb-topped Guinness cake. If that doesn’t sound wholesome enough, you’ll eat your cake while sitting at a table fashioned from a tree trunk, as the friendly farm cat curls around your legs. And what a cake. We want to meet the mind that decided to top the dark, chocolatey cake with a thick, heavy layer of decadent cream cheese, studded with clusters of sweet honeycomb. Because we’d definitely be friends." - sinead cranna
"If your romanticised idea of a bike ride involves a pit stop for brunch and a little pedal alongside a canal, head to The Allotment Kitchen. This cafe is part of Stepney City Farm, and it’s where nature-starved Londoners go for honeycomb-topped Guinness cake and Baileys hot chocolate. If that doesn’t sound wholesome enough, you’ll eat orange mascarpone french toast while sitting at a table fashioned from a tree trunk, as the friendly farm cat curls around your legs. It’s also just a short, three-minute cycle from Mile End Park, which has a pleasant route alongside the Regent’s Canal. " - sinead cranna
"The Allotment Kitchen is where we go to escape London, while being too lazy to actually leave London. The cafe, part of Stepney City Farm, is the kind of leafy, fairy light-sprinkled oasis that draws nature-starved Londoners with the promise of Baileys hot chocolate and honeycomb-topped Guinness cake. If that doesn’t sound wholesome enough, you’ll eat your orange mascarpone french toast while sitting at a table fashioned from a tree trunk, as the friendly farm cat curls around your legs. The creative dishes are excellent—like confit garlic white bean mash with lemony leeks and crispy sage—and this is one of our favourite brunch spots in the city. Come on the weekend and take a stroll around the farmers’ market, and leave with a blissed-out, rested feeling. photo credit: Koray Firat photo credit: Koray Firat photo credit: Koray Firat photo credit: Koray Firat" - Sinéad Cranna
"The ‘AK Christmas Sarnie’ is The Muppets Christmas Carol of Christmas sandwiches: a wholesome, hearty, and utterly charming delight that one could quite easily consume every day of the month without getting tired. Two handsome wedges of Bread Station sourdough encase slow-cooked Stepney City Farm pork shoulder, roast turkey breast, mushroom and spinach stuffing, homemade cranberry sauce, mayo, and a token lettuce leaf to tie it all together. Is the lettuce necessary? Absolutely not. But green is good in December. The sandwich is available at Allotment Kitchen for the whole of December and there’s even a vegetarian version knocking about for the non-meat eaters." - Lucas Oakeley
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