Cuppa' Chaii (Archway to Platform 7 & 8)

You're standing in one of those forgotten corners of Vauxhall station where most people just speed-walk to their platform, but this is where you'll find a genuinely good cup of chai or coffee. Cuppa' Chaii does the unglamorous work of making station food actually worth your time—the kind of place where the owner clearly gives a toss about what goes in the cup. It's the antidote to the usual chain café mediocrity you'd expect in a transport hub, serving proper loose-leaf teas and espresso drinks that taste like someone's made them for you, not for the next ten customers in line.