Comments on: So Long, City Corner Cafe

By: Lorenzo

Lorenzo — Fri, 02 Feb 2024 07:01:52 +0000

Alex is my Dad and Delfina is my Grandmother and she is still alive, 93 now.

I was with a friend just now, telling them about our family business and remembered this article. Very happy it is still going, and honestly at the time, I did not think anything about City Corner. However now that I am older this article brings back memories and emotions I had forgotten.

Thank you Spitalfields life

By: AS

AS — Wed, 21 Aug 2013 14:13:55 +0000

No!

I completely missed this story and went there today for their brilliant plate of spaghetti. Gutted. Such a great, friendly place.

By: SBW

SBW — Mon, 05 Aug 2013 14:39:01 +0000

Farewell City Corner – I visited this cafe every week for a year in 1989 when I worked in Devonshire Square. Many happy memories. I seem to remember buying bread pudding there! I hope the family enjoys their retirement.

By: Jo

Jo — Sun, 04 Aug 2013 14:44:39 +0000

So sad to see this cafe go. I took my 8 year old daughter for lunch there one winter weekend. We had such a warm welcome and it felt like visiting a cafe from my own youth. Another casualty of the redevelopment of Spitalfields, I suppose. In my book no corporate set up could ever match this type of establishment. Hopefully the closure means long and happy retirement somewhere sunny.

By: Barbara

Barbara — Sun, 04 Aug 2013 09:00:50 +0000

Before the days of ” Spitalfields Life ” this café would have disappeared without trace. Thank you Gentle Author for capturing another story before it all vanishes.

By: Cherub

Cherub — Sat, 03 Aug 2013 23:58:29 +0000

It’s always sad when places like this go, when I worked in Gracechurch Street I used to go to a cafe a bit like this in Leadenhall Market – it was for the days when you fancied Cornish pasty and chips instead of fancy sandwiches.

Friendly places with decent food at good honest prices with locals in them. Coffee chains are never the same, often bland and overpriced and their sandwiches sometimes taste of nothing.

By: Gerry Wiseman

Gerry Wiseman — Sat, 03 Aug 2013 21:13:12 +0000

Thanks for this one. This cafe opened up after we left London for 6 month 57 years ago, but I know exactly where it is/was located.

By: Bob

Bob — Sat, 03 Aug 2013 19:32:00 +0000

I worked in Bishopsgate in 1993 and used this cafe.

What are we doing to our lovely city?

By: Amanda W

Amanda W — Sat, 03 Aug 2013 09:16:04 +0000

I used to walk past there every day when I worked in Brick Lane, always looked busy. Great spot for a bacon sarnie after a big night out (Those were the days pre having a baby!).
Why did it close?

By: Ms Gherkin

Ms Gherkin — Sat, 03 Aug 2013 09:01:01 +0000

What a shame I did not know this beforehand – the City Corner Cafe was long on my list of places to go.
How sad that such institutions just quietly shut down, only to be replaced by a bland chain store.