Griffin Cafe, Harlow

if you've got a laptop bag on your shoulder and a morning that needs sorting before it gets away from you, southern way isn't where you'd expect to find a reason to slow down. but griffin cafe, sitting inside the latton bush centre on cm18, has built something that its regulars clearly don't want kept quiet. independent spots in business parks can go either way, and this one has landed firmly on the right side of that. the crowd that keeps coming back tends to know what they want, and a place earns that kind of loyalty by being consistent, not by being showy about it. you don't need to be in harlow long to understand why this one sticks. start with a cortado and see where the morning takes you.