{"id":5365,"date":"2019-11-18T06:13:08","date_gmt":"2019-11-18T06:13:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.aussiepizzas.com\/PIZZADELIVERY\/at-borough-markets-flor-flawless-cooking-and-speciality-coffee\/"},"modified":"2019-11-18T06:13:08","modified_gmt":"2019-11-18T06:13:08","slug":"at-borough-markets-flor-flawless-cooking-and-speciality-coffee","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.aussiepizzas.com\/PIZZADELIVERY\/at-borough-markets-flor-flawless-cooking-and-speciality-coffee\/","title":{"rendered":"At Borough Market’s Flor, Flawless Cooking and Speciality Coffee"},"content":{"rendered":"

Somehow, I still haven’t made it to Lyle’s<\/a>, the modern British restaurant in Shoreditch, whose high-quality speciality coffee offering has won as many plaudits as the food. Luckily for me, a sister restaurant, Flor<\/a>, opened up closer to home, in Borough Market, a few months ago. I’ve now visited twice, experiencing both a light breakfast at the downstairs bar and a lunch in the tiny but beautifully designed upstairs dining room.<\/p>\n

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In a stuffier establishment, I might have felt out of place showing up for breakfast in my running kit one August morning, but at Flor, the welcome was warm \u2014 while the marble counter  that occupies most of the diminutive downstairs was pleasingly cool. There isn’t a coffee menu \u2014 and there’s no filter coffee \u2014 but the usual espresso-based drinks are available. They rotate coffee roasters, and on this first visit, the espresso was a honey-processed El Salvador variety roasted by Berlin-based Bonanza Coffee Roasters<\/a>. I ordered a piccolo, which was immaculately brewed, sweet and well-balanced.<\/p>\n

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There were a few light bites on the breakfast menu, but I was always going to have the fig and fig-leaf custard pastry, which was, by turns, crisp, gooey, sweet and tart. It was almost too pretty to eat, but needless to say, it did not last long!<\/p>\n

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I returned last week, taking the opportunity to visit on a rare day off in London. I booked a table in the upstairs dining room, which seats about 20 people. Although there were a few free tables when I climbed up the cast-iron spiral staircase at the back of the restaurant, before long, they were all full.<\/p>\n

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Once again, I started with a coffee, ordering another piccolo. There was a Ugandan coffee from Assembly<\/a> in the hopper this time and again, it was very well made. After spending a week in New York where piccolos and cortados tend to be on the longer side, it was good to enjoy a more appropriately petite version.<\/p>\n

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As for the lunch menu, it included 15 dishes of varying sizes and prices. I knew that I wanted to try the scarlet prawns with yuzu kosho (\u00a318), and that I wanted to save room for a pudding. There were lots of tempting dishes on the menu, including an oxtail muffin (which looked great), but in the end, I went for the purple sprouting broccoli tempura with bergamot (\u00a39). I’m not sure the two dishes went very well together necessarily, but they were both delicious. The prawns were so flavourful with the yuzu kosho adding a potent citrus and chilli kick. The broccoli tempura, meanwhile, was perfectly crisp and very moreish.<\/p>\n

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For dessert, I ordered the delica pumpkin ice cream, which came with a well filled with macadamia milk and a macadamia cookie (\u00a38) \u2014 a clever twist on the classic milk and cookies. It was not a cheap meal (\u00a343 including service), but each item was well-executed and a delight to consume. The service was very good too, even though it was busy.<\/p>\n

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Flor<\/b>. 1 Bedale Street, London, SE1 9AL (Tube: London Bridge). Website<\/a>. Instagram<\/a>.<\/p>\n

For 100+ more of my favourite coffee shops in London, please check out my speciality coffee guide<\/a>.<\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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