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Café Deco, at 43 Store Street in London, cooks British contemporary food with a European streak, and The Good Food Guide rated it Good in 2026.
Anna Tobias keeps the kitchen to simple, straightforward dishes. The menu changes weekly and sometimes from day to day, so the printed list is a starting point rather than a fixed promise. Salt cod fritters with aïoli bring sharp seasoning and garlic, and robust mains such as baked brill with potato suit a hungry table.
Café Deco also works as a bar and wine shop. The wine list draws on independent, low-intervention producers, and the by-the-glass selection changes daily. Michelin lists the restaurant as Recommended for 2026, and the team is happy to suggest a bottle if you ask.
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Anna Tobias works to a formula of doing simple, straightforward dishes with appreciable panache. Menus at her crowd-pleasing Bloomsbury café change weekly, and the food retains the kind of deceptively domestic air that can all too easily fool punters into thinking that they could knock up something similar at home. Start with some nibbly fare, along the lines of charcuterie or mussels in escabeche. After that, salt cod fritters with aïoli bring on a great whack of punchy seasoning and resonating garlic, or you might consider bistro-style stalwarts such as artichoke vinaigrette or tuna, radish and winter tomato salad. Robustly proportioned main dishes aim for unabashed sustenance, ranging from a Spanish-style ranch stew of sausage, morcilla, bacon and beans to baked brill with potato and more aïoli. Come hungry, as they say. As this is nominally a café, there may well be cake to finish – chocolate and walnut, possibly – but also crema catalana or rhubarb ice cream for those who are watching their carbs. The largely European wine list features plenty of enterprising discernment, from a Tarragona Macabeu-Muscat blend to a cherry-ripe Sicilian Frappato.
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