To be overly impressed with nice simple old fashioned cafes/restaurants

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I popped out to go to a little cafe today which does some fancy flavoured latte I havent tried yet at a fiver a pop, all industrial and fashionable inside, selling overpriced soaps and 'statement pieces' but they were full up

So I went next door instead which was a little old fashioned Greek restaurant/cafe, with brick wall paper and ordered a latte

It was your bog standard 'milky coffee' and served with a Mcvities digestive

I dont even like digestives but I just loved the simplicity of it, the old fashioned coziness of it. The unashamed not keeping up with so called fashion and expectations

Dont know why

I ate the digestive and very much enjoyed it.

I'm lucky to live somewhere we have a lot of cafes like this and butty shops. We have a nearby pub (independent) that does proper food too. Homemade. Fish pies, plate meat and potato pie, homemade chips, hot beef, onion and mustard sandwiches. Sunday Roasts. Does things like Halloumi Salad too. We go to this pub for all our family birthdays and events, it's brilliant.

There's a couple of independent cafes in nearby Market towns and villages that do homemade soup and sandwiches. Ploughman's lunch, etc. They all do proper coffee and loose leaf teas. Not greasy spoon at all, but will do a bacon butty etc too

I have found this so much in recent years
We went to Gloria recently and it was packed and very lively but the food was a bit 'meh.' it was more about being Instagram able than good food and I felt incredibly underdressed as everyone else went for it. But a week later we were out for a walk and popped into a tiny little family run Italian cafe that looked like it hadn't been updated since the 90s and had a far more tasty pasta for less than half the price.

Whenever I go somewhere new I look for their market because there's usually a proper cafe there. Check table cloth, fried breakfast, a pot of tea and a nice lady in a pinny.

We have 3 decent privately owned cafe's here in our town of 12,000. We also have Starbucks and Tim Hortons (Canadian). The only one I'm not crazy about going to has the noisiest coffee maker, and in summer the blender is going constantly for cold coffee drinks. So noisy that you can't carry on a conversation.

The one where I meet my friends for a Saturday afternoon coffee makes the nicest latte at a reasonable price, and the atmosphere is nice (in an old bank) but their baked goods are not top quality.

What is a cheese and pickle roll? Is it actually a pickle rolled in cheese, or is there bread involved?

I miss one particular cafe of my youth. They did burgers with a basic white bun and a fairly small frozen patty, not the massive burgers of now, you could get a jacket with cheese or a variety of toasties, or a teacake, bacon or sausage sarnie, milkshakes which were just chocolate milk or strawberry milk, not thick like macdonalds.

They were across from the shop I worked in as a teen and I used to go in via the back door which adjoined our shop. I barely went in the front but it was definitely the kind of cafe we are talking about here. Prices were not extortionate. Happy days.

I hear jacket potatoes are making a comeback, so you may soon be in luck.

The pickle isn't a Canadian/American pickle. It's Branston's Pickle or similar. The dish is a bread roll with sliced cheese and Branston's in it.

It's a cheese sandwich with pickle/chutney spread on the cheese.

If you are ever travelling north in Scotland, go to the Green Welly services. They have about 5 flavours of soup in an old skool cafe, the mushroom is amazing, and you can even buy a frozen tub to take home!

That’s funny 😁 remember Mrs Overall 😃. I just don’t understand why all the fuss about sourdough - I think it’s awful, all hard and crunchy. Coconut macaroon anyone?

In the Bristol area we used to have a small chain of bakeries called Mountstevens. The larger shops had cafés where you could get a pot of tea and things like poached eggs on toast and of course an "afters" of Chelsea bun or similar.

I love this picture and this seems like the thread for it. Dates from the early 1970s, I believe. London sandwich shop. Not quite a tearoom but a close cousin.

Liver sausage!!!

Oh my days.

A pot of tea and a separate pot of hot water to top up the teapot. Heaven.

I couldn’t agree more! I loathe insta-friendly places, although shamefully I am sucked in from time to time (especially if they involve new, ‘viral’ food).

Generally, though, I strive for an uncurated life.

Stockpot was the absolute best!!!!

Loads of them in Wolverhampton, and they deliver too.

I live in a town with any number of modern trendy spendy coffee shops. I choose the chintziest most old fashioned one where the tea still costs £1.50 instead of treble that, and comes in an actual pot!

We have an old fashioned cafe that’s been in the town centre since before the 60’s and it’s always full. It’s bog standard drinks and food but it’s good quality and clean. They were selling milky coffees long before lattes were heard of.

I’d love to go back in time for a fizzy lime, while my mum has a pot of tea and a cigarette, in the Woolworths cafe.

Whereabouts in Scotland are these services, please?

We have one of these. It’s fantastic. Two Peas in a Pod its called. They also do pie.

It's okay, I have it. (I used Google, which is what I should have done before asking.😙)

www.thegreenwellystop.co.uk/?srsltid=AfmBOoozTLV6wrf9FWkbw3lDvirzNskOCqCXN1trijHKNILwyPaZbfPV

I tend to agree. I can’t do with restaurants that try to be quirky - serving food on a lump of wood or a slate, or in a plastic basket, or with roller skating waiting staff, or intermissions where the staff do a song, or bloody cats / pugs everywhere.

That said, I do, occasionally, love a bit of high end dining, in disused warehouses, eating moss off a pebble.

I’d forgotten about liver sausage!