A Whole Bunch Wine Shop & Bar
A Whole Bunch Wine Bar sits on Garratt Lane, nearly directly opposite Earlsfield Station. There’s been a wine shop on this location for some ... Read Feature
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It was an intermittently sunny Sunday morning when I went to meet my friend at the Toast Rack Bakehouse. This is an attractive looking café, situated on Trinity Road almost opposite the County Arms.
As the weather was unusual in that it wasn’t raining or threatening to rain, we decided to site outside, and were serendipitous in our timing in that there were seats available and strangely no queue as there usually is of other prospective diners. The interior is fairly capacious and attractively decorated, and on that occasion full of people who had less trust in the consistency of the weather than I did.
I’d already ordered a flat white before the menus arrived, and it was nice in the way that self consciously expensive good coffee is. The flavour is always perhaps a bit too pronounced, as is the price and one is never enough and two is too many. My friend relaxed with a citrus charger, an unusual mix of prink grapefruit and orange juice which he thoroughly enjoyed and at £5.60 is a fair price locally for freshly squeezed beverages.
The menu is typical of local cafes looks like a world culinary tour, Turkish eggs sit along side a Croffe Madam (made with a croissant in case you were wondering,) and a full English, priced from about £9 – £15. I ordered the folded eggs (like scrambled but in one lump at £8.90 with extra chorizo (£5,) in a self-generated Turkic- Spanish mashup. My friend went for the Cacklebean Farm eggs, with sourdough soldiers. Nothing against either ingredient here, but it does instantly sum up the sort of establishment that the toast rack bakehouse is.
For me my food was nice, though I did think that for £5 my portion of chorizo could have been more substantial, and my friend’s egg and soldiers looked nice, even if the yolk was as orange as a scene in a Denis Villenueve movie.
The food, setting and service were all competent and nice…but I just felt like this studied quirkiness was like so many other cafes locally, they’re all different yet all pretty much the same. It is local though, and the food better than most, so I’m sure I shall revisit purely based on convenience.
Toast Rack Bakehouse
314 Trinity Rd, London SW18 3RG
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