Cafe Toulous

This oddly unassuming café, hidden away on a backstreet in Hampstead Garden Suburb is a delight — particularly in the summer, when you can enjoy your lunch on the terrace, overlooking Mutton Brook as it trickles through Northway Gardens, one of the many green spaces in the area.
With a good selection of food (sandwiches, pastas, salads, pastries) and drinks (teas, coffees, fruit juices and so on), it’s a welcome place for snacks, lunches or the coffee-​and-​cake boost you might need before or after a walk on nearby Hampstead Heath.
One of the more interesting things about this café is its name — derived not from any suggestion of French cuisine but from the fact that the building used to house some public conveniences — one for men and another, of course, for women — two loos, in other words. Apocryphal or otherwise, it’s a fun story to relate to fellow diners — so long as you wait until you’ve finished eating!