{"id":184822,"date":"2022-05-02T05:00:36","date_gmt":"2022-05-02T12:00:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sprudge.com\/?p=184822"},"modified":"2022-04-29T12:38:38","modified_gmt":"2022-04-29T19:38:38","slug":"the-sprudge-guide-to-coffee-in-north-london","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sprudge.com\/the-sprudge-guide-to-coffee-in-north-london-184822.html","title":{"rendered":"The Sprudge Guide To Coffee In North London","gt_translate_keys":[{"key":"rendered","format":"text"}]},"content":{"rendered":"

North London is less of a coffee hotspot than its east. But where the previous guide in this series<\/a> is in places an illustration of how speciality coffee can saturate pockets of a city like water through a puck, this more closely resembles the diffusion of a slow-brewed filter.<\/p>\n

That’s not to say that these cafes aren’t interconnected, or are totally disparate to each other, just because the region lacks the fast friend relationships between cafes and roasters that comes with speed of growth and development. But to understand north London’s cafes, a visitor must first understand “north London”: an appositely imprecise description for a region that stretches tens of miles horizontally as well as vertically. To adapt the observation of London writer Jonathan Nunn, “to understand the food of north London, first understand [not two, but three] roads”: the A10, the A105, and the A406. The first two run roughly north to south; the latter arcs across the width of the region like a rainbow; all three connect people and places more directly than any Tube line. The communities, and cafes that they connect may be far apart\u2014as far north as Barnet, as far south (yet still north) as Islington\u2014but they share common infrastructure. They are north London cafes.<\/p>\n

Per the remit of this guide, all of these cafes are destination visits as much as neighborhood essentials, but they are best (if visiting multiple) taken as something in between, as that matches most closely with the unique psychogeographic sprawl of the area. A final piece of advice to the completist: if seeking to reach all these places, don’t take the Tube; walk, or take the bus.<\/p>\n

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