Central London is not a cheap place to eat. Victoria Station is no exception. The station concourse concessions charge £4 and more for a roll, £2.50 for a coffee, £1.50 for a can of Coke… and nowhere to sit and eat. Usual thing. There are exceptions but they tend to be hard to find when you want one.
When people do find them they will often refer to to them as ‘little’ - as in “There’s a little Italian place in…” . They usually have one thing in common - they are not little in any conventional sense.
Having said that, there is a little café in the bus station. This is the bus station outside Victoria station not Victoria Coach Station which is a few hundred yards down the road toward Pimlico.
Displaying an admirable linguistic economy it is called the Victoria Café.
And it really is small.
They have crammed in a tiny kitchen…
…display cabinets, and two Coke machines.
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| Just visible at the bottom of the shot is the soft drinks store out in the public areadue to the lack of an alternative. |
There is seating for a couple of dozen at tables with some additonal stools at a narrow bar.
And they have squeezed a BT mobile telcoms unit of some sort into a hole in the ceiling. I presume this is to help pay the rent. It's status as an impromptu microwave oven for the brain is unconfirmed.
The menu is typed with a manual typewriter and is comfortably 1970s,
The bar afford a view of passengers emerging from the adjacent underground station - exciting stuff.
Mrs Doris Grodzinsky (not her real name) is friendly and tries to please.
This is a typical greasy spoon and makes a nice change from the ubiquitous fast food franchises with their anaemic offerings.
Bloody marvellous!
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