Bon Appetit

Bön Appetit is one of my favorite little coffee shops in London. In addition to good coffee, they have a really nice breakfast /​brunch menu. I like their traditional English breakfast complete with eggs, sausage, toast, beans, tomatoes, and tea/​coffee. The staff remembered us from when we came almost a week ago and even what we ordered previously.
Outside, they have great seating and whence you come in, they have ample indoor seating.

Recently I completed a temp posting with an organization who were in the middle of a major office move. For the first while we were at the dreadfully dull Holborn. The only benefits to the location that I could find were the Princess Louise and Lincoln’s Inn Fields in behind.
It was with great relief that I greeted our move to Clerkenwell. Ah, charming Clerkenwell. Design companies, film companies, creatives galore, a lovely old green, some colourful pubs, all in all a major improvement upon our former situation.
The next step, of course, was discovering where to eat. Luckily, the first place I tried was a gem. Bön Appetit is an unimposing little place at the corner of St John and Great Sutton. Aside from the hot dishes everything here is made to measure, and the prices are better than reasonable. Bön Appetit makes simply beautiful food, generally quite healthy with a few guilty favourites (burgers, chips). My favourites in the brief time I spent there were the sandwich of houmous, carrots and spinach and the goats cheese, roast veg & spinach. Occasionally, when suspending my horror at the thought of eating fish (they breathe their own feces) I took the fresh poached salmon which was, for certain, delicious. As for their toasted ciabatta, perfect but for the fact that crisp bread sometimes disturbs the roof of my mouth, I delighted in the brie, tomato, roast veg and pesto. When feeling flush I took the mushroom risotto. Risotto! For lunch! For under a fiver!
It is very much the sort of virtuous small venture that you want to patronize. Surrounded as we are with healthy fast food options it’s a delight to find somewhere with real character and real flare making your lunch lovingly on site. I almost miss that temp gig. Almost.