Breakfast at Pellicci's -- cafe culture and community in the East End of London
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 14 ต.ค. 2024
- E Pellicci, on Bethnal Green Rd, is one of London's most cherished cafes,. It's a bustling banter-charged hub, an East End institution and, above all, a family affair.
Walk in there for the first time and you'll be taken back by the sheer energy of this tardis-like place. The sound of chatting, laughing, cutlery on crockery, slurping, constantly shifting chairs... The generous welcome and the cosiness of the cafe make you feel as though you're in the Pelliccis' crowded dining room, its etiquette established over the past 100 years and three generations.
Customers and staff banter on first-name terms, strangers are thrown together and quickly make friends, tables are turned around and plates are brought out at an impressively rapid rate. Always with a wink and a smile. If you can't decide how you like your eggs or you're killing time at the till fiddling with your wallet in the hope that your mate will cover the bill, you're going to be pulled up on it. And then you'll want to come back and have the mickey taken all over again.
At a time of rising inequality, where the face of the city is ever changing, fault lines are opening up around issues of class and race, and cafe culture has given way to high-speed coffee culture, it's places like this that bind together a community. Here we can all meet as equals and put the world to rights over some honest grub.
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@amarofpatel
and this is the kind of stuff you won't get in in your bland corporate costs and starbucks. Support your local cafe
Next time I visit London my first breakfast will be at this restaurant
I need to make a return. And go very hungry :)
Pellici's is a true London institution. I used to train around the corner at Muscleworks Gym back in the 90's and this was the place for post workout food.
Fantastic place, the best in London. Love you Nevio !
I Love this Cafe. Anytime I'm in London, I'll come here. It has a real community warmth to it. The Food is fantastic (Steak pie & the Homemade Chips, with loads of "Army & Navy") The characters who come in, are some of the nicest people you could meet. Nev, Maria, Tony and Mamma, Salt of the earth.
Proper place. Love it.
Nice people, friends and I are always made to feel welcome, generous portions of good food and chatty, smiley, humorous staff.
Absolutely love love love this place .... everybody is so friendly and welcoming and the food is amazing.. Hi Nev and the gang .....you'll be seeing us dodgy girls from Chesterfield soon xxx
It’s wonderful it’s still there.
I always come for a visit to London from Edinburgh every August and have me self a couple of pints in the Salmon & Ball and then a wander along to the cafe for a late lunch but it's always closed. After listening to Nev on Robert Elms yesterday (One of the most entertaining Listed Londoner's in a while) I've now realised that the cafe is shut for the whole of August. I will get there at some point but not this year, as you've guessed I've already booked up for this August.
Hope nev Anna and mum fro. Phil new Zealand swri to heart dad the great nev passed! Miss the brekkies when i lived in shoreditch twenty years ago loved asking the old man to recite the full menu from memory.vhows cousin tony?
The Ritz, Savoy, Langhams is on this Canadian gal's bucket list - Pelliccui's is right up there too. I hope one day to visit and find hidden local treasures that tourists might not know about.
I actually saw this place on Jool's Guides. Great channel
Best cafe in London (Get in there ) Big up to the Pellicci's !
Jukebox - Juke Box Jimmy. Hope you're good Jimmy. About time I popped in. See you down there, hopefully.
Just listend to ned from here on robert elms radio london as listed londoner....mos def gona eat there soon..big up!!!!!!
As did I, hence why I popped over to see this.
@@graeme0762 lol geeat minds think alike lol!!! / robert elms show great listening aswell!!
@@bradleyjones2855 The show is indeed a great listen. Although born & bred in Edinburgh, I love London and listen to Robert's show almost everyday.
it's amazing. You can sit on the very seats that the great Ronnie and Reggie sat on.
Hardly great were they?
@@chrisolagrim3597 They seem like nice boys.
Lived Busby Street between Brick Lane and St Matthews Row, Happy Days.
In the *60{s Dad wouldtake us for Saturday Lunch give Mum a day off cooking xxx
where I can have proper caff food. Yes!!
I live in Australia now but worked in a butcher’s shop next to your cafe in the 50 s and at that time knew most of the family Neville Peter Terry. Mary and another who’s name I don’t remember my mother in-law cleaned your kitchen my wife and I got married in the red church a wonderful family
Claude was the one you forgot
If the sauce bootle caps are clean , then it's a good place .
I havent been in pellic
The first man i ever seen having a baby
Weavers Fields.
The worst chips in any cafe Iv been to , can't work out the hype
Oh dear. Feel better?