Four Corners
Lower Marsh, hidden behind Waterloo Station, is one of those up and coming places that has not yet arrived, but well worth exploring.
Lower Marsh has a street food market in the week, Saturday a craft market.
In London a couple of weeks ago on a cold misty day in London, I encountered Four Corners serving coffee from a van outside Waterloo Station. Or at least they were serving coffee, when I found them they were packing up. They suggested I try their coffee shop in Lower Marsh.
It was on my way to find their coffee shop in Lower Marsh that I came across Jessica Moscrop on the craft market with her stall JesSpoke, her own designs.
Worth stopping and having a chat, slow fashion not fast fashion.
At the far end of Lower Marsh I found Four Corners. A board outside in the street declaring Voted Best Coffee Shop in UK. By who is the obvious question, as Costa declare they are voted best coffee shop? A catering magazine in 2014, thus meaningless.
I have a feeling I have looked in this coffee shop before on a previous visit to Lower Marsh as felt vaguely familiar.
I order a cappuccino. It was served blended with cocoa. Why, why use Ozone coffee, then ruin with cocoa? Unusual for me, I could not be bothered sending back.
On the way I encountered drunken idiots in Santa costumes, more and more kept turning up. Hundreds and hundreds of them. Impossible to walk down the street. Eventually coffee shop door was locked to prevent then walking in to use the toilet. Not a single one bought a coffee, not even a takeaway coffee. They were also sitting on the coffee shops seats outside, leaning on the window. When they finally chose to leave the street was strewn with rubbish. They managed to kill trade for the day for the street market. Whoever was responsible for this charade should be made to pay to clean up the street.
In indie coffee shops it quite common to find books on coffee. In Four Corners a long bookshelf lined with travel books hence the name. They also supply Four Corners passports, mugs, little notebooks and sweatshirts.
The only publication coffee related, copies of Caffeine.
Amazing poster hidden in the toilet. Why hide away?
Four Corners were giving away free books. No idea why and I did not see any, though did warn limited stocks. Maybe publisher located nearby and have surplus stock to dump and what better way to obtain free publicity? Or maybe Lower Marsh or Four Corners featured in the book? But why promote a book on trash? Pulp fiction?
