Dose

dose does the coffee-and-food combination properly, which sounds obvious until you realise how rarely it actually happens. long lane in barbican isn't the kind of street you drift down by accident, so the people who show up at number 70 have usually made a deliberate choice, and they tend to come back. the menu leans vegetarian across breakfast and brunch, with small plates and desserts that hold their own rather than playing second fiddle to whatever's in your cup. you get the sense that neither side of the equation, the food or the coffee, is there to prop up the other. both are the point. if you're in ec1a on a weekend morning with no fixed schedule, the brunch menu is where to start.