CAFE GOURMAND

Homemade French Food

'I Love Starting Things'  Lucien Freud

Bécher de Thé à La Menthe

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Bécher de Thé

It's Valentines day, you've fluttered and swooned in slow motion over the stunning retrospective of Lucien Freud at the National Portrait Gallery and your ready for an amble and intimate refresher.

Where do you go for the perfect beaker of tea ?

Shake a tail feather down to Cafe Gourmand on Lexington Street in Soho.

This French Cafe-Bistro hang out has all you need. If your peckish, there's Coq Au Vin. Omelettes. Roast Topside of Beef Sarnie. Pork Sausage and Haricot Vert Cassoulet. French Onion Soup. Roast Belly Of Pork. Croustillant Aux Champignon. Tartine Savoyarde. Quiche du Jour. Croque Monsieur. French Apple Tart and the Pastries ........

All the ingredients to echo CG's playlist of a homemade menu du jour, featuring a remix of 'The Perfect French Trough'.

Thé du Menthe is served in elegant and functional crystal clear German-Jena beakers by the amiable, chatty French proprietaire, the friendliest of hosts on this well frequented block.

Cafe Gourmand has a lovely personality and a real sense of soul. It feels a home-from-home, cosy and sophisticated and the kind of place you would regularly meet like-minded buddies to snack and meditate over a suitably aesthetic dialogue. Lucien would have approved.

Cafe Gourmand be my Valentine.