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Double Skinny Macchiato: The Caffeine Chronicles: Lundenwic
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Drawn in by the tempting coffee and food menu — and, I admit, the striking design of the takeaway cups — I stopped by to check it out last weekend.
The coffee is from Workshop and there are usually a couple of filter coffees on offer, but when I was there, they only had one: a Rwandan coffee called Miko.
As well as the magazines, Lundenwic produce their own one-page guide to some of their favourite food and drink spots in the area, which I enjoyed reading while I waited for my food.
The gorgeous geometric design of the takeaway cups (except the flat white cups) aside, the coffee — a Kivu Belt — was excellent: chocolatey, rich and smooth.
Lundenwic is a welcome addition to a West End neighbourhood that has, until now, been surprisingly lacking in specialty coffee options.
Best for sustainability: Arbor Restaurant, Bournemouth - olive ...
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Andy Hilton refuses to make any grand statements about Arbor’s sustainability practises.
In fact, in the wider context of Arbor’s home, the Green House hotel, Andy’s kitchen is not that radical.
The company car even runs on bio-fuel made from waste kitchen oil.
Andy’s broadly modern British food incorporates everything from Italian to Indian influences – ‘I like big flavours’ – but always with a sustainable focus.
This month, Andy will be dropping autumn veg into his dish of seared pork neck with duck-fat roast potatoes and a chorizo cream sauce, and his seafood plate changes constantly: ‘We use what the fishmonger has that day.
restaurant review: Lundenwic coffee shop Aldwych - olive magazine
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A compact coffee shop off Aldwych with Scandi style, serving Workshop coffee, pastries, fantastic toasties and some perked-up porridge, by the founders of Scotchtails, Oliver Hiam and Dominic Hamdy.
The menu is short, including a couple of salads, porridges and toasties, but what there is they’re doing well.
Go for the pickled peach, green beans, feta and hazelnut salad box for lunch, or a roast broccoli, chilli, almond and cheddar toastie.
We went for a breakfast, and were comforted by a flat white and a generous, stylish-looking bowl of porridge topped with on-trend ingredients.
Good value: generous portion of porridge £4, flat white £2.90, regular salads from £6.
On the Grid : Lundenwic
Lundenwic | Cafe | Best Coffee Guide
Best for sustainability: Arbor Restaurant, Bournemouth - olive ...
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Andy Hilton refuses to make any grand statements about Arbor’s sustainability practises.
In fact, in the wider context of Arbor’s home, the Green House hotel, Andy’s kitchen is not that radical.
The company car even runs on bio-fuel made from waste kitchen oil.
Andy’s broadly modern British food incorporates everything from Italian to Indian influences – ‘I like big flavours’ – but always with a sustainable focus.
This month, Andy will be dropping autumn veg into his dish of seared pork neck with duck-fat roast potatoes and a chorizo cream sauce, and his seafood plate changes constantly: ‘We use what the fishmonger has that day.
Best restaurants for sustainability: Café ODE, Devon - olive magazine
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The public is gradually beginning to value green dining, but, says Café ODE owner, Tim Bouget, plates remain a sticking point.
‘It’s the right thing to do and good business sense,’ says Tim, who also runs Shaldon’s ODE Dining restaurant.
‘Why would we buy tables from a factory when we can get them made here and support local suppliers?’
The food at this modish, family-friendly hang-out (also home to the Two Beach microbrewery, try the elderflower-tinged ODE Ale, pint £3), is regionally-focused and versatile.
‘At the core, it’s about good quality food,’ advises Tim, ‘forget the plates.’
restaurant review: Lundenwic coffee shop Aldwych - olive magazine
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A compact coffee shop off Aldwych with Scandi style, serving Workshop coffee, pastries, fantastic toasties and some perked-up porridge, by the founders of Scotchtails, Oliver Hiam and Dominic Hamdy.
The menu is short, including a couple of salads, porridges and toasties, but what there is they’re doing well.
Go for the pickled peach, green beans, feta and hazelnut salad box for lunch, or a roast broccoli, chilli, almond and cheddar toastie.
We went for a breakfast, and were comforted by a flat white and a generous, stylish-looking bowl of porridge topped with on-trend ingredients.
Good value: generous portion of porridge £4, flat white £2.90, regular salads from £6.
London's best Nordic restaurants
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The elegant European menu has a distinct Nordic feel – nettle soup, smoked mackerel salad, line-caught ‘skrei’ cod – while ‘fika’ (a kind of Swedish coffee break) takes place every afternoon and includes the usual cinnamon buns, pickled herring and, rather unusually, reindeer scotch egg.
32, Harcourt Street, W1H (020 3771 8660) Scandi coffee shop gets street-food kudos at Ludenwic, a Nordic-inspired café in Aldwych set up last year by the guys behind Scotchtails, the brilliant scotch egg trader in Borough Market.
Old pal Matt Shea from B.O.B.’s Lobster in Brixton was immediately drafted in to design the small but perfectly formed menu: there’s smashed avocado on toast with salmon sourced from London-based Nordic smokehouse House of Sverre; traditional berry bowls with coconut yoghurt, berry pulse, fresh fruit and banana granola; salads of pickled peach, green beans, feta and hazelnut; and sourdough sarnies filled with porchetta, salsa verde, smoked mackerel and beetroot.
This place is part of the new-wave Nordic sweeping the city – full of nuance and subtleties – and its opening last summer wasn’t a moment too soon.
Try baked rarebit on rye bread or the full Danish with ‘bloody Viking ketchup’ at brunch or snaps-cured salmon, flash-fried smoked eel and pork veal meatballs later in the day.
Lundenwic | Restaurants in Covent Garden, London
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A cute cafe in the Aldwych area serving takeaway salads, toasties and sandwiches, plus porridge for breakfast on-the-go.
Hip and minimalist, with splashes of colour from its gorgeous Ottolenghi-style displays of modish salads and cakes, and a touch of theatre from its huge, gleaming coffee machine, Lundenwic could be the blueprint for the coffee shop of your dreams.
The menu is similarly on-trend, but has substance as well as style – you can pick up a seasonal cold-pressed house juice to make you feel better about adding a Crosstown doughnut to your order, or choose three salads from the counter and top them with a good helping of halloumi, for just under a tenner.
Meanwhile, if you thought sandwiches were the dullard’s choice, Lundenwic will make you think again – fillings range from jerk chicken with red-cabbage slaw and lime aioli to toasties of roasted broccoli with chilli, almonds and cheddar.
Great food, good looks and a friendly vibe – who could ask for more?