Café Deco

Walk past the window of Café Deco and you'll spot the regulars already planted at their favourite tables, laptop open or newspaper folded. This is South Kensington's unpretentious anchor—the sort of place that doesn't need Instagram to pull people in day after day. The atmosphere is refreshingly low-key for this corner of London; no one's performing, everyone's just getting on with their morning. You'll find solid coffee, a decent line in breakfast and lunch options, and the kind of service that remembers what you ordered yesterday.