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Editorial
Eco Cafe, Camden Town
Step into Camden Town's bright and ever-so Eco Cafe for a totally
'green' experience. But take a coat, warns the WeLoveCamden reviewer....
Five minutes down from the main hustle and bustle of Camden Town’s market strip of
traders and tourist hotspots, sits the brightly coloured and
environment-conscious coffee house, the Eco Café (41 Camden High
Street).
Clearly from the packed menu of organic breakfasts, healthy salads,
fresh smoothies (including orange, watermelon, ‘celery delight’ and ‘minty
morning’) and fair-trade coffees, this is a café with its priorities in place
for all to see, and while ‘eco’ is a fashionable label that is banded around
all to easily these days, this place has bent over backwards to earn the name.
If you do head into the café take in your surroundings before you delve
into the food and drink, because from the lighting to the toilet flush, every
effort has been made to tick the ‘green’ box. In fact, when you consider that some
of the furniture is even made from reclaimed wood or sustainable forests, the
café starts to get annoyingly ‘good’, forcing a quick reflection on the efforts
more of us should be making in the in the eco war. And just in case you do
decide to make a lifestyle change, take a look at the wall for the latest ideas
on how to save energy…
Where the food is concerned, the menus have been creatively etched onto
the walls behind the counter, offering ‘daily specials’ (up to £5.25),
‘breakfasts’ (up to £4.99) and ‘sandwiches’ (up to £3.95). The ecoposh pie, eco
burger, the eco roast, and the eco Italian Job are all included, so you start
to get a theme for the food.
As you would expect, the Eco Café goes all out on the herbal tea front
as well, offering ten types, from the obvious to the obscure.
The free Wi-Fi makes this an ideal pit stop café, though if there had to
be a drawback, and there always is, it would be the fact that this review is
being written with shivering hands poking out of a winter coat. Maybe the lack
of heating and wide open front door in winter is all part of the ‘energy
saving’ deal, but its cold and the handful of people inside draped in coats and
scarves seem to be of the same opinion. Maybe we’re not warrior enough.
But don’t be put off, go in for a smoothie (I recommend the banana), go in for an eco roast, go
in for a weird herbal tea…but if you venture in this side of winter, wrap up.