family owned cafe in the heart of highbury
Hello and welcome to New London Cafe!
We would like to introduce ourselves and tell you the story behind our charming vintage cafe. Our names are Ines and Ilker and we are long-time Islington residents.
Great coffee, delicious food and community are personal passions of ours. We decided to combine them and open New London Cafe in the summer of 2011. We carefully chose our location just off the top of Islington's bustling Upper Street because we believed residents in the area needed a local café to provide premium coffee and scrumptious food in a relaxed social atmosphere.
We opened a vintage cafe because we love art and history. In fact Ilker was collecting original pieces from antique markets across the city for some time before we opened. Even the wall paper in our dining area is original. It took us forever to find gorgeous original paper to create the perfect atmosphere for our customers. But we knew the right wall paper when we eventually saw it!
Prior to opening New London Cafe, Ilker had a successful international career in food and beverage management. While Ines also has international hospitality industry experience as well as a degree in illustration. Perhaps you have seen some of her New London Cafe artwork on our Facebook page?
Our customer's needs are at the heart of everything we create at New London Cafe. And the foundation of New London Cafe's offerings is our high quality fair trade organic coffee. However, due to demand from our customers, we are evolving to provide the neighbourhood what it needs. We currently serve breakfast, brunch and lunch seven days a week. We also have a small organic food shop but plans are underway to expand and offer more organic goodies in 2014. Like us on Facebook or follow us on Twitter to keep on top of these exciting developments.
And finally, if you're curious about the photo to the above left, this is us, Ines and Ilker as we prepared to open New London Cafe in the summer of 2011. We hope you enjoy your visit to our charming vintage cafe and love its wonderful ambiance as much as we do.
We would like to introduce ourselves and tell you the story behind our charming vintage cafe. Our names are Ines and Ilker and we are long-time Islington residents.
Great coffee, delicious food and community are personal passions of ours. We decided to combine them and open New London Cafe in the summer of 2011. We carefully chose our location just off the top of Islington's bustling Upper Street because we believed residents in the area needed a local café to provide premium coffee and scrumptious food in a relaxed social atmosphere.
We opened a vintage cafe because we love art and history. In fact Ilker was collecting original pieces from antique markets across the city for some time before we opened. Even the wall paper in our dining area is original. It took us forever to find gorgeous original paper to create the perfect atmosphere for our customers. But we knew the right wall paper when we eventually saw it!
Prior to opening New London Cafe, Ilker had a successful international career in food and beverage management. While Ines also has international hospitality industry experience as well as a degree in illustration. Perhaps you have seen some of her New London Cafe artwork on our Facebook page?
Our customer's needs are at the heart of everything we create at New London Cafe. And the foundation of New London Cafe's offerings is our high quality fair trade organic coffee. However, due to demand from our customers, we are evolving to provide the neighbourhood what it needs. We currently serve breakfast, brunch and lunch seven days a week. We also have a small organic food shop but plans are underway to expand and offer more organic goodies in 2014. Like us on Facebook or follow us on Twitter to keep on top of these exciting developments.
And finally, if you're curious about the photo to the above left, this is us, Ines and Ilker as we prepared to open New London Cafe in the summer of 2011. We hope you enjoy your visit to our charming vintage cafe and love its wonderful ambiance as much as we do.
