London’s best toast-your-own cafés
Under-grilled toast can ruin your breakfast, no matter how perfectly poached the eggs. Avoid morning rage by going to a café where you can toast your own bread at the table.
Flour to the People
Ingenious see-through toasters on every table mean you can whip out your toast the second it’s turned an adequate shade of charcoal. The gorgeous sourdough is baked on site.
Info: 573 Battersea Park Road, SW11, flour2people.com
Parlour
Perk up after a perfectly singed rye bread binge at this dog-and-yummy-mummy-friendly café with some of the best iced coffee in south London.
Info: 19 Norwood Road, SE24, @coffeeparlour
Ottolenghi
It’s not all rainbow-coloured grains at Ottolenghi: the Spitalfields branch also does a neat sideline in bread, sliced and ready for toasting and then dipping into the phenomenally rich shakshuka.
Info: 50 Artillery Lane, E1, ottolenghi.co.uk
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Burnt Toast Café
The clue is in the name: underdone bread is a crime against humanity at this Brixton Village spot.
Info: Brixton Village Market, SW9, @burnttoastcafe
The Mirror Room at Rosewood London
Toasters toasters everywhere, as the machines for firing your bread to perfect golden-brown reflect in the myriad mirrors here. Chase your toast with the delicious pancakes and a glass of champagne.
Info: 252 High Holborn, WC1, rosewoodhotels.com
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