J+A Café was the first café I ventured out to find after arriving in London. I've searched out a lot of coffee shops since that first excursion and J+A remains one of my favorites in the city for its delicious home-cooking and simple, unpretentious (red brick) interior. It is tucked away in one of those lovely back alley courtyards of East London, a short walk from the Farringdon tube. As you sit beside the steamed up windows of the café on a winter afternoon, you can't help but feel that your somewhere close to home.
(Don't let the images throw you -- it's practically always teeming with people. I managed to slip in 15 minutes before closing the other day for a quick coffee and snapped a few photos.)
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[J+A Café, 4 Sutton Lane, London]
