Russell Davies, guru of the planning world, blogger extraordinaire and generally genuinely interesting man, writes amongst other things, a blog about his favourite cafes. Which a few years ago was turned into a book.
I shall say only if you haven't got it, get one. A friend sent me a copy in the post yesterday. It's a cracking (geddit?) little book full of pretty pictures of greasy eggs, reviews of cafes with their quintessentially British "air of peeling miserabilism" (almost worth buying simply for being the only time other than a self-indulgent Pet Shop Boys track that I have seen the world 'miserabilism' in print) and various musings on the role of cafes in today's lazy fat society. All self-respecting advertising households should have a copy.