Narrow Kitchen

You'll find yourself squeezed into Narrow Kitchen's tight, unpretentious space on Mare Street in Hackney, surrounded by the kind of people who actually live round here rather than Instagram tourists. The place is exactly what its name suggests—narrow, intimate, no-nonsense—with a vibe that's more local café than brunch destination, which is precisely why it works. The kitchen clearly knows what it's doing: breakfast is straightforward but executed properly, and they're not trying to reinvent the egg on sourdough. It's the sort of place where regulars perch on stools and the staff remember what you ordered last week.