Scooter mechanics turned accidental cafe and bar, this is the only place for coffeeee in Waterloo, so good that I spelt it with four e’s! Launched from the mind of a Kiwi scooter obsessive and vintage coffee machine collector, this cafe on Lower Marsh Street was always likely to produce cups of Joe so delicious that it attracts people from all over London. Passion and parts, I guess are what gives the quaint little venue its mass appeal. It’s full of mixed tables and bits and pieces that appear like an accumulated collection that has been carefully curated- it’s the look that cannot be recreated.
There’s no food but you can bring your own, presumably if it doesn’t smell too off-putting and along with the coffee there’s a small selection of bottled beers and wine. Company can be kept with the cat who routinely prowls the tables and arty events are to be found listed amongst the fliers and below the cafe it has its own performance space. There’s weekly music in the basement and like the cafe in general, beckons an interestingly mixed clientele, plus it makes the most of itself with opening hours all the way from eight in the morning to midnight at weekends.
It has to be seen and it’s another one of those places that makes you tisk at the stupidity of the hungover you that woke up and declared a boredom with your London life. Silly you, there’s Scooter Works to drink at. Tut, tut.
