1990s London Greasy Spoon Cafe

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1990s London greasy spoon cafe

[@alexhedges1987]

Don't get many of these places anymore, they used to be everywhere down south, I remember having breakfast in them when i was on the roofs, massive plate of food, all for about 2 pound 50.

[@Levelworm]

Must be a good way to start a day of hard work. Damn I wish we have more of these in Canada.

[@36OZ]

All you see is kebab shops!

[@Marco-bi9rb]

@@36OZ supply and demand, also I have plenty of these sort of cafes around me and I I’ve in London

[@LifeofBrad1]

Used to be plenty here up north too. They had a certain atmosphere to them. A very smoky one before the smoking ban came in. Don't know which smell was more overpowering, the smoke or the old cooking fat.

[@DaveBriffa]

wish there were more greasy spoon vids out there. The older the better.

[@annabellecarter6067]

Greasy

[@AnthonyD-yy2in]

I remember one great moment in the early 1990s of being in one of these cafe's on the upper Holloway road, and how that very kind waitress really took care of me.

[@MrRowrow22]

Feels obscene that’s nearly 30 years ago. I’m not even old

[@staceyrain7529]

I used to work in a cafe just like this good old days

[@ithom8048]

I loved them when they were like this with those tables with he plastic connected chairs lol the smell in there was lovely pure nostalgia

[@TylerB2024]

The three ladies cooking, I wonder just how much of their hair fell into the food over the years 😂

[@bigmiddle]

what I love the most about this video (besides the food) is despite this being a greasy spoon, all of them are using their forks the "proper" way when scooping food into their mouth.

[@GreatBarrWolf]

bigmiddle - The skinhead @ 1.15?

[@annabellecarter6067]

Greasy

[@AniGstring]

How else would you use your fork?

[@Rob1Rich]

Watching this made me hungry.

[@PillSharks]

Must be 1997 or later as there’s an N Reg car outside....how London has changed!

[@ganinport5401]

Absolutely right! So much changed! When I’m watching videos from 90s Sometimes I feels like it was just a dream. And it was at the different world. Nowadays You will never get those vibes as it was at 90s. And for example it’s hard to meet at the streets of London so many rock n roll celebrities as it was back in the days. Now it’s a new internet generation. It’s so sad when you realise that again and again

[@ashleylane180]

Love this video, one of the best on this channel.

[@Amusingsnippets]

Were all grasping to go back in time looking at this lol

[@SPRFHAEW]

The guy when he realises he is being filmed 😂

[@kabes9288]

I just literally watched and thought same he looked fuming 😂

[@doneyd8932]

Impressive that David Trimble could find the time to work behind the counter at a greasy spoon cafe in London while also negotiating the Good Friday Agreement

[@22poopoo]

Looks like bubble and squeak was there speciality. I want some now...

[@crazyforcoffee5950]

22poopoo look for a time machine and you might get some

[@johngill7776]

Bubble and squeak with beans. Not the best combination for a night of passion 😂

[@22poopoo]

@@johngill7776 especially not for me. Never mind the farts. I have a phobia of baked beans

[@22poopoo]

@@martinlanigan803 😆 To be fair, I did struggle a bit with food in Manchester.

[@Dom-zr9zu]

Eye eye can’t a bit of left over roast 👍

[@BenWillock]

This brings back some memories ☺️

[@Dom-zr9zu]

Being a sparks I grew up on this stuff💪

[@leepoole9463]

Love the cafe and the video nice work

[@gary7360]

Great food good company always welcomed with a smile

[@esthercoleman3204]

thanks for sharing

[@marinam1660]

Funny, all cafes used to be like this in general. They weren’t sophisticated like they are now with decor and table service.

[@DMG118]

When I visited London I looked for one of these and the only one's I found were exactly the type you described. I was told you have to go outside London nowadays to find actual greasy spoons.

[@Isaac-gh5ku]

I am hoping that greasy spoons like this are still around and still in business, despite the world is affected by the COVID-19 pandemic.

[@bloodnivel70]

This video looks timeless, may be because of the great food footage.

[@zinozee8929]

Literally every meal here looks homecooked, fresh, piping hot and just pure delicious. Nowadays everything is bought pre-cooked from Wholesalers ready to be reheated. Shame we let places like this go to big corporations and chains. Bring back the English cafe!!!!!

[@markielarkie445]

Proper blokes.

[@BrutalCarnage]

Greasy spoons would always gather up the community. Old folks, school kids, work men, business men, stoners and tourists looking for a cheap wholesome meal. You have these fancy Cafes that will charge 6 quid for a bacon roll, whereas if I just walk 10 min up the road I can get one, that tastes fresher, for 2-3 quid at my local greasy spoon

[@Snowdrops30]

A cup of char and a bun please

[@Vor_Tex_Sun]

A sticky bun

[@bobstar6837]

Health and safety nightmare. All that cross contamination 😂😂

[@steveurkel9440]

Bubble looks good

[@lindsayimms9234]

The geeza eating in the first bit looks like he ordered a hot salad😂🙈

[@garyharrison5100]

Life before i-phone!

[@adeh503]

How the fuck did I end up watching this

[@Andy-wx4wx]

The bloke at the start really enjoyed being filmed whilst trying to enjoy his food......

[@Dom-zr9zu]

George’s Diner Silvertown RIP

[@chunkybeats79]

I wonder if Del Boy and Rodney ventured in here

[@philiphutchins2152]

Bubble & squeak 😊👍not a hash brown in sight 😮

[@mikebrannigan8150]

The world was a better place then

[@yesgeorge333]

london was a fucking massive shithole back then. its way nicer now.

[@Jeff-zq6tk]

Steak & Kidney Pie = £2.36 or Gammon Steak, Egg, Chips & Beans = £4.08. I'll have we some of that. It would be about £5 for the pie and £10 for the Gammon nowadays

[@AniGstring]

So about half the price of what things are now but I know minimum wage wouldn't have been half of what it is now, it would have been less!

[@questionmark9819]

I hope you got permission to film, first geezer didn't look too impressed!?

[@questionmark9819]

@The Wanderer great idea 👍 thanks champ!

[@TheLOLFactory1]

Old Alan Muckie!

[@Isaac-gh5ku]

5:33 Hey look, an arcade video game machine on the far left. Do greasy spoons now still keeps those old arcade machines?

[@MrAvfc1965]

Wow that big piece needs a hair net

[@choppergeeza]

She didnt look happy about being filmed either!

[@Levelworm]

Looks like the price is a bit high for the 90s?

[@1moskii]

0:26 imagine this was 2021, the guy would have knocked down the camera from his hands.. people didn't care back then

[@danbus180]

How things change not a single person on there phone every one reading the news paper and I bet the food tasted better then todays slop

[@shakeymike2003]

Lol that guy! Wtf mate im eating me lunch!

[@brianahern3978]

I used go in then Brian and his wife run it was called the flock inn. Brians old man had a cafe opposite tate &Lyle in the.70s called George s cafe I'll have.tea no suger son

[@gegwen7440]

As you know it was the best cafe in East London when Brian & family took it over from the former couple when it was the Flock Inn. His old place opposite Tate's was a cracking place for a cuppa and toast & dripping, and part of his success was he knew every customer & what they wanted.

[@Zlervo]

Wasn't George's Diner in East London?

[@kotkaconforza]

They serve instant coffee?

[@reinhardsmirnofsky2507]

Watching this on Brexit Day, hoping to see the return of them good ol' days! :)

[@loveconnection1118]

How we have fallen

[@davidwhite7294]

Mug, since Brexit all the cafes in the area l live have closed down. You believed the worlds greatest liar hahahahahaha.

[@millll8322]

​@davidwhite7294 If in doubt blame Brexit hay. Nothing to do with covid and debt I suppose as well as local councils charging crippling rents which has nothing to do with Brexit

[@deanwild4971]

All that PENG food

[@davidwhite7294]

I had no idea there was such snobbery about this ….l went into a cafe on Hilly Fields, Brockley, London , it’s called Pistachios….l asked for an egg sandwich and was told“we don’t do fried egg“ l asked why not and was told they,re unhealthy. I said“ well that’s what l want“ and was told again „well we don’t do them, do you want anything else…..l said no I fuggin don’t ….I,ll go to a proper fuggin cafe.

[@zinozee8929]

What kind of English cafe doesn’t do a fried egg sandwich… liberals have allowed croissant loving chocolate pancake eating idiots take over trying to make everything sound Italian…. I fancy fried egg sandwich now untoasted extra brown sauce 🙏🏽👍🏽

[@adolfhiller3146]

Enjoy the silence

[@steveurkel9440]

She's needs to soak that pan in hot soapy water

[@GorillazNoodle22]

interesting! saw Gordon Ramsay reference the "greasy spoon" in a video. he didn't seem to like this kind of place, unfortunately. but the way he said it reminded me of waffle house and I love waffle house

[@scottwelsh6847]

The guvna is the best.

[@insertnamehere5146]

geezer eating a sandwich with the dirtiest hands ever at 1:35

[@johngill7776]

Real staple diet full English with bubble and squeak. When finish ask for 20 Embassy No1 cigarette's

[@crazyforcoffee5950]

Does this place still exist?

[@cyberhermit1222]

probably a mosque now

[@musicfan2511]

John Dinsky haha you’re probably right 😂

[@crazyforcoffee5950]

John Dinsky lol probably

[@jonathanmayhew2953]

There’s pictures of the building boarded up on google with the sign still up

[@crazyforcoffee5950]

Jonathan Mayhew where?

[@annabellecarter6067]

Greasy

[@FoxyFox999]

Oh look. Leonid Breznev in a greasy UK cafe 😅

[@datboijj]

Are they drinking tea or coffee?

[@robinhood7874]

TEA IS STILL BIG THESE DAYS I'LL LET U KNOW

[@crazyforcoffee5950]

JJamil Luzano bit of both

[@jazzkat8322]

More of a coffee man me self.

[@wahrebeobachter]

I kinda have the feeling that I saw a tin of nescafe and thought it could be coffee.

[@jesusislord748]

0:30 let the man eat

[@matteoj226]

This can't be London, surely. They're all English people.

[@davidwhite7294]

That’s racist. 20% of the British Population are immigrants. 8% Asians and 12% Afro Caribbean. Neither group go in for bacon so that’s why.

[@MartinMartin-bh4ke]

​@@davidwhite7294England didnt look as bad as it does today

[@eckizoo]

God give me back my appetites again after that!! Here the evidence at UK no food culture at all!!

[@peakyblinder777]

Wear a hair net ffs !

[@rogerlephoque3704]

With one or two exceptions, these people don't smile and I am quite shocked at how dog-like some of these people are in the way they "go at" their food. No one really notices what they eat, it's just a mechanical process to shovel it away. Noticed also the primitive way of holding a knife and fork. I wonder if they interact with their loved ones in such a fashion. I put it down to an island mentality. No one behaves like this on mainland continental Europe

[@replay68pete14]

That’s why we can’t wait to leave you...France is the bowels of Europe.

[@rogerlephoque3704]

@@replay68pete14 France has gastronomy, their gift to the world. Dear old Blighty has its knickers in a twist and in the process of retreating into an island-mentality where any discussion or appreciation of good food is frowned upon. Try adopting that frame of mind when making love and your partner will do a runner...

[@replay68pete14]

@@rogerlephoque3704 France will always be Britain’s bitch simple as that.

[@rogerlephoque3704]

@@replay68pete14 Thank you for your edifying words in cyberspace. You deserve the highest award, the Gold Medal of Piffle.

[@replay68pete14]

@@rogerlephoque3704 thank you mongrel.