Thingy Cafe

You'll find Thingy tucked away on Trowbridge Road, in that part of Walthamstow that's quietly brilliant but doesn't shout about it. It's the kind of place where the staff actually know what they're talking about when it comes to beans and extraction, but they won't make you feel stupid if you just want a flat white. The crowd's proper mixed—locals with laptops, mates catching up over breakfast, people who've genuinely travelled across London because they rate what's happening here. There's something refreshingly unpretentious about the whole thing.