The café at Stepney City Farm offers big, thoughtful dishes of good things – as well as games, animals, kids and smiles
The Humble Bee Café. Stepney City Farm, Stepney Way, London E1 3DG. No bookings. All food £3.25 to £6.50. Unlicensed
Lunch at the Humble Bee Café is a meal in a very happy place. It opened in July and occupies a simple hut on the edge of Stepney City Farm in London’s East End. There’s mismatched furniture, games of Jenga and Scrabble on the tables, and an awful lot of peace. I suspect it would be a calming space in which to linger in any circumstances, but chefs Alice Wilson and Matt Hall are busily providing a whole bunch of edible reasons for going there in the first place. The Humble Bee feels like a place where nothing bad can happen, and keep not happening.
Eggs cooked soft then broken up and heaped one atop the other, with thin discs of chorizo
A sausage roll is as thick as a toddler’s arm, the rugged filling studded with the sweet burst of chopped apricots
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