Milkbar

Currently sitting at Milkbar at 3 Bateman St, Soho, drinking a coffee. It's gooood. I think I put a bit too much sugar in it, so I'm spooning out soggy sugar. Woops. Well there was no spoon for the sugar and I had already used my spoon to eat the froth! So I had to pour the sugar into my coffee from the glass of sugar on the table. 

Susan is next to me on her laptop. 

We're just sitting here enjoying the ambience (read "om-bionce") after having some lunch.

Milkbar is an Aussie/New Zealand style cafe with a related cafe called Flat White a few streets down. 

Kinda like Mocha Joe's and Cocolounge at Glenny. 

Actually, pretty much exactly like Mocha Joe's and Cocolounge- dim yellow lighting, brown furniture, cake and bread displays, and the smell of coffee. 

It has greatly puzzled me how some places in London seem to be able to make coffee without the smell wafting from the cafe. Though that might explain the general disappointment in the standard of coffee. 

Anyway.

I was soooo tempted to have a second breakfast- the breakfast menu looked so good- French toast with caramelised banana and strawberries, bircher muesli, banana bread mmmm... 

But I was a good girl and I had a proper lunch instead. 

I had a olive ciabatta bap with tomato, pesto, goat's cheese, rocket and caramelised onion chutney. Toasted. Susan had the same.

The bread was crispy on the outside and soft and doughy on the inside. 

And if you're wondering why I got something with olives in it when I don't even like olives- I was tentative about it too, and I was just going to pick out the olives. 

Turns out it wasn't too bad. There weren't large chunks of olives in the bread, and if I hadn't known it was meant to have olives I wouldn't even have thought about it (though that's probably a bad thing from the point of view of everyone else who likes olives). 

It was so nice. Lots of light, subtle tastes. A good size too, not too filling, just nice. 

And not too expensive either.

This place is really really Aussie, actually. The staff are all Aussie. And oh look, Marco from uni/halls just walked in. He's from Melbourne too. This place isn't even all that close to uni. And I think the clientele is mainly Aussies wanting their good coffee fix. I think they have a lot of regulars- there seems to be a steady stream of people coming in.

The atmosphere is pretty chill, background music, students on their laptops, groups of 2 or 3 chatting.

So we've been here for nearly 2 hours... Time to get back home I think. Sigh fiiiiiinnnnnnne.
But thank you Susan for a fun day out with lots of laughs.

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