Outside it's nothing but a mock French facade and a bland title, but inside the artisan bolanger it's pyramids of precariously balanced meringues dusted with multicolours and mis-matched wooden easels displaying delicate strawberry spotted tarts and slabs of almond stuffed pistachio cakes.
The upholstery is mis-matched, the exposed brickwork deliberately high-brow snooty - the luscious olive and cheese ornamented salads are displayed using the temptingly piled 'Ottolenghi technique'. Whole butternut squashes are piled on the counter.
The cakes are arranged like little pieces of art on their own carefully picked raised wooden boards. Little paper tickets give the names and prices; French apple flan, Pear crumble, Courgette and lime cake, Ricotta cheesecake with lemon and meringue. I pick the wheat-free pistachio and almond cake. I'm served a substantial triangular slab, lightly iced and generously sprinkled with crushed green nuts.
It's dense and moist with a delicate marzipan taste and just the right level of sweetness. The icing compliments it beautifully. This with a chunky blue teapot of good strong tea (artfully mis-matched with its cup) and I know I'll wind up back here again.
Coffee Cake, 28 Broadway Parade, Crouch End, London
The upholstery is mis-matched, the exposed brickwork deliberately high-brow snooty - the luscious olive and cheese ornamented salads are displayed using the temptingly piled 'Ottolenghi technique'. Whole butternut squashes are piled on the counter.
The cakes are arranged like little pieces of art on their own carefully picked raised wooden boards. Little paper tickets give the names and prices; French apple flan, Pear crumble, Courgette and lime cake, Ricotta cheesecake with lemon and meringue. I pick the wheat-free pistachio and almond cake. I'm served a substantial triangular slab, lightly iced and generously sprinkled with crushed green nuts.
It's dense and moist with a delicate marzipan taste and just the right level of sweetness. The icing compliments it beautifully. This with a chunky blue teapot of good strong tea (artfully mis-matched with its cup) and I know I'll wind up back here again.
Coffee Cake, 28 Broadway Parade, Crouch End, London
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