Cafes?

matt

So, where's your favourite greasy spoon?

Mine is the Sunshine Cafe just opposite Woody's.

The best cooked mushrooms in the area, reasonable radio station and newspaper choice. Good veggie options for when I can't face bacon or sausage and massive glasses of orange juice.

David

Not tried it but looks the best up this end. Have had some really good breakfasts in The Front Room Cafe but feel that doesn't really qualify as its a 'gastro' greasy spoon.

Colette

I just spotted that (The Front Room) the other day, although I suspect it's been there for ages and I'm just blind. Does it come highly recommended then?

Lucy

yup. The owner is very friendly and the food is good. They've made a real difference to that stretch on Tollington. Ask them about plans for next door.

matt

My good friend Nicky swears by it

Colette

I might check it out this weekend I think.

andy

I love the Front Room Cafe and Rob is very cool and lets us bring the dog in. They are also extending into the shop next door, which will be ace.

Colette

I am very jealous of all you dog people. I want a dog. A lot.

matt

Can't you have one in your own place?

dominic

Front Room is lovely but for the best coffee in the area you need to step slightly beyond SG and go to Good For Food on Blackstock Road. Bloomin' marvelous and they've got a little garden out back which is great when it's sunny.

David

[quick google on Good For Food](http://www.camdennewjournal.co.uk/111005/r111005_13.htm) - does where Tony Adams' ate _(not Good For Food, btw)_ really equate to a good review?

Colette

Is that the place on the right hand side of the road as you walk down from Finsbury park? by the library? if it's the one I'm thinking of, their portuguese custard tarts are truly excellent. I find it physically impossible to walk past without buying one (and it's on the way to my mum's, so I walk past a lot).
As for the dog issue, I have thought of every possible option, but there's no getting round the fact that I can't fairly leave the dog at home alone everyday all day while we go to work, can I....

Lucy

There's a doggy creche on Tollington and they take them for two walks a day - although at £2 an hour it does rather add up for a week. It comes in handy for the odd occasion though.

David

get a hamster. much easier.

Colette

hmmm, so the dog lives at the creche when you're at work, or they collect your dog from home and take it for a walk? I guess that would make a big difference to the hourly rate.
Oh, I also live in a small top-floor flat, which apparently is another reason why I can't have a dog, although being half from Paris, I see no problem with keeping dogs in flats.

Colette

I had two hamsters on a loan for a while. One of them developed giant testicles (true), and I was very worried it might die. I didn't enjoy the experience. Also, hamsters are rubbish.

andy

half from Paris = from Calais?

Lucy

Hamsters aren't much fun and they bite - I still have scars.

The dog goes to the creche when i'm out all day. I'm at college so only have the dog full-time during the holidays - he lives in the country during term.

There are those rat-sized dogs that could easily live in small flats.

Loads of us on line at the moment!

Colette

No, half from Paris = mother from Paris, father from (just as glamorous) Stoke.
I don't really like rat-sized dogs; I want a proper dog. I think the solution is that I quit my job and go back to college. I'll put it to the other half.

andy

How giant is a giant hamster testicle? I'm imagining that's still quite small in the grand scheme of things.

David

I wasnt actually serious about the hamster thing. No need for you all to get so down on the hamsters. I'd say it'd be about the size of your average garden pea?

Colette

Correct. But in the context of a hamster, that's quite big. They dragged on the bottom of the cage.

Lucy

very funny image. I used to have gerbils that had the same problem.

matt

Colette, get a Nintendog!