The Street Cafe may sound as though it is posh. Maybe you think Paris or perhaps you think of pasta dishes and good Italian coffee. Or maybe you think of the various attempts to give the UK a bit of European street culture.
Forget all about these ideas. The Street Cafe is a Greasy Spoon cafe lifted straight from the east end of London, or that is exactly what the food is anyway. If you want the crappiest sausages, sweaty bacon, bubble and squeak that was frozen or a big mixed grille of lamb chops, pork chops, burger sausage and chips that is in fact all fried then you are in the right place.
The food is very cheap and plentiful but like many of these kind of cafes the quality is not great but it will do, particularly if you are quite hungry but relatively broke. I had a breakfast of sausage, bacon, egg, hash brown, beans, 2 slices of toast and a tea for £4.99
OK every expense had been spared in purchasing some of the ingredients. the sausages were of predictably low quality and the bread was on a par with a supermarket's basic range. I generally avoid the coffee in these kind of places. I find tea is a much safer option. But for just shy of £5 what can you expect? I certainly came out of there full for sure and did not need to eat again until tea time. staff said hello and goodbye when we left and they were generally quite friendly. the food was hot and freshly fried so while quality did not exceed expectations I would say that, for its market, this cafe is on the good side of average. I give it 6 out of 10.
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