Before Christmas, I went to the launch party for new New Cross coffee store Red Lion Coffee Carbon monoxide. Located on a peaceful backstreet just off New Cross Roadway and also throughout from Fordham Park, Red Lion is the creation of Chris McKie, formerly of the Division of Coffee.

The café is established over two levels– tables as well as a bar on the very beginning, as well as the coffee bar and some elevated bench seatsing on the mini-mezzanine. The space itself has high ceilings and also large windows, allowing lots of all-natural light. The décor is minimal with sleek wooden furniture and coffee bars and also exposed brick walls.

When I got here, the celebration was in full speed and Red Lion was loaded. Sadly, the espresso device was playing up and also so I could not try the coffee, but there were a lot of treats readily available– pleasant ones from Pet cat Food and some tasty sausage rolls and scotch eggs. Red Lion is open until 9 pm in the nights and they offer beer from two Bermondsey breweries and also wine from Vinnaturo. The wine is from a box(technically a bag in a box) however although I’m not a huge follower of wine as well as really did not try any, it appeared to be decreasing really well with the other visitors.
I didn’t obtain the possibility to go back to try the coffee
up until the brand-new year, however it was worth the delay. I checked out late on a wet Saturday mid-day and also although it wasn’t quite as loaded as during the launch (luckily!), there was an easygoing, buzzy ambiance– and a terrific soundtrack. I purchased a piccolo(₤ 2.80)and a piece of banana bread (₤ 3)and also sat at one of the ground-floor tables. The coffee is from Climpson and The Baron coffee blend remained in the receptacle that day. My piccolo was really well prepared and the coffee had a charming rich, nutty preference. I liked it a lot that the inquiry,” would you such as an additional coffee?”, was not a hard one to address. Piccolo numero due was equally as excellent as well as had I not spent a lot of the early morning ingesting coffee in your home as well as at Monmouth, I possibly can have been attracted by a third.
The banana bread was extremely tasty too yet if, like me, you have a tendency to like delicious snacks to wonderful ones, there are various sausage rolls, pasties (consisting of a veggie one) and mouth-watering muffins readily available also. For something a lot more filling up, they likewise had a slow pork goulash and a veggie dhal on the menu (both ₤ 8). A lot of the food and also beverage originates from neighborhood producers.All of these factors make Red Lion an excellent addition to the southeast London speciality coffee scene(and also especially to a component of southeast London where terrific coffee is more difficult ahead by ), but possibly most significantly of all, the personnel are all extremely friendly as well as welcoming. It was a wonderful area to invest time planning some travel, and although I don’t go to New Cross that often, it behaves to recognize that I have another factor to go.Red Lion Coffee Carbon monoxide. Batavia Roadway, London, SE14 6AX (New Cross Gateway or New Cross Overground) . Website. Twitter. Instagram.