Pottery Café

you're on northcote rd, which runs through battersea with the kind of low-key confidence that comes from being genuinely useful to the people who live nearby. pottery café sits at 153, and if you're in sw11 regularly, there's a good chance it's already on your rotation. the coffee is taken seriously here, which in a neighbourhood this lived-in counts for more than it might somewhere trying harder to impress. locals tend to find their places and stick with them, and pottery café has clearly become one of those places for a lot of people. stop in on a weekday morning before northcote rd fully wakes up, order whatever's pulling espresso that day, and you'll understand why.