Café Deco
Certain restaurants fit celebratory moments, some are reserved for intimate meals with a beloved, while others invite a relaxed, uninhibited patronage where you can sit and indulge in blissful solitude. Café Deco will appeal to all.
The restaurant is on a row of idiosyncratic shops on Store Street in Bloomsbury, a street that seems independent and straightforward, compared to the now-accepted misuse of the word ‘villagey’ by the real estate industry. Normal shops including a florist, an art supplies store and framers, a Greek deli and Italian butchery run by respective emigres, and of course Treadwell’s, whose staying power is another story in itself.
Here Café Deco offers its version of charming gastronomy, using chef Anna Tobias’ penchant for simple but fine quality ingredients, yes, but also an assured and quiet conviction on what a restaurant should be (answer: “simplicity, but taken to the extreme”). Tobias is her own culinary fusion, having trained and worked some of the most inspirational chefs and restaurants in London in the past three decades: Jeremy Lee at the Blueprint Café; Ruth Rogers of The River Café; and head chef under Margot Henderson and Melanie Arnold at Rochelle Canteen.
The interior of Café Deco welcomes guests with a harmonious blend of natural light playing on pastel tiles, complemented by the daily freshness of flowers and the intimate glow of candles as evening descends. The front room houses a charming marble counter alongside a series of wooden tables asking for real conversations over leisurely meals.
