top 50 cafes

Mirandola

Evening Standard has both Front Room and Vagabond http://www.standard.co.uk/goingout/bars/best-cafes-in-north-london-8509640.html

ChangN4N6

Yes but sad to day Sun And Moon cafe is now shut . (; Chang

miss annie

Vagabond is in the introductory blurb for the print edition but not in the Top 50 listings. Sun & Moon closed ages ago, HMRC closed them down.

Mirandola

Vagabond isn't in the top ten in the print edition, but it is in the top 50 online. Pleasingly, stroud green beat crouch end on this one - their only entry is Harris and Hoole.

miss annie

Oh dear, that will upset them! Suggests a bit of lazy journalism, if they had wandered about a bit they would have found at least one coffee place nicer than the Tesco one.

andy

Well done Front Room!

krappyrubsnif

Pleased  to know that my alternative office is one of London's top 50 caffs.<br>

meltwaterfalls

There isn't much detail on the <a href="http://www.timeout.com/london/food-drink/londons-best-cafes-and-coffee-shops?pageNumber=2">online edition</a>, but not only did Vagabond make it into Timeout's finest coffee shops, it was also marked up as the <a href="

https://twitter.com/DelBoy_/status/321528541822992384

">Staff Pick</a> for North London. Well earned in my opinion.

Brodiej

Im rapidly going off Vagabond. The coffee is holding its own (just), but i'm finding more and more that it takes ages to get your order, and typically you get to enjoy some petty bickering between staff members which spills over onto customers. I remember it being nice and chilled, run by some friendly coffee fans....now its like an office riddled with politics!.............and, full to the rafters of hipsters wearing ironic clothes hoping (so so much) that you'll see them and think they're awesome. No mate, you look like a bell end.<div><br></div><div><br></div>

Arkady

I have noted a little staff tension.<br><br>Has anyone tried their Holloway Road joint?  I went just after it opened and it looked good, and the coffee was of the same high standard.<br>

krappyrubsnif

Yes, and it is OK, back yard has good potential too<br><br>Need advice - how do I become a hipster?<br>

Arkady

'Older' people who dress as hipsters just look like Alan Ginsberg.  This is no bad thing in my view.<br>

Mirandola

If you know what a hipster is then you are one

vetski

Just posted a hipster-related q on @Mirandola';s market research thread, am amused to find similar discussion here! The Wiki entry for hipsterity (? I don't know the correct word for the process of becoming/being a hipster) is absolutely hysterical, in a totally non-ironic way. And just what the hell are 'ironic clothes'?<div><br></div><div><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hipster_(contemporary_subculture)">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hipster_(contemporary_subculture)</a></div>

Brodiej

Ha ha. I knew that bringing up hipsters would get people going. Anyone that says "if you know what a hipster is then you are one" is a hipster :-). Hmm. Ironic clothes......im.going to say its making every effort possible to look like a bell end because looking like a bell end is cool. Eg. Tying your shoe laces around your legs whilst wearing shorts. Seen it, there is no other explanation other than pre meditated first degree hipsterness. Also seen paper sunglasses.

andy

Back in 2006 when we set this site up, (yea we set up an online community website in 2006, what were you doing?) I don't think we were hipsters. Now we're just old.

R&J

Hipsters are dickheads apparently<div><br></div><div><a href="">