Aston & Magill

Aston & Magill in Wimbledon is a lovely little coffee shop with tasty food, decent coffee and friendly staff.
Because of an office move, I recently started exploring SW19 in search for good lunch spots. Quickly I came across Aston & Magill, a friendly and very relaxed coffee shop in Wimbledon. Unfortunately walking there takes me about 20 minutes, and in combination with somewhat slowish service, it is difficult to fit a trip down to Aston & Magill into my lunch break. However, every time I go there, it is definitely worth the effort, and who would mind to walk 40 minutes on a sunny day?
The place looks beautiful and simple — it does not try to be something it is not, it’s just a lovely neighbourhood coffee with high-​quality food and pretty good coffee.
Once I had a chicken and bacon sandwich, that tasted as delicious as it sounds. Another time I had the pasta with tomato and bacon sauce, also a very tasty dish.
When you are lucky, you can even get the single table outside in the afternoon sun. While I do not like the metal table and chair — the wooden furniture inside is much nicer — having lunch in the sun is too good to be put off by a table and a chair.
Aston & Magill is definitely one of those places that I just liked as soon as I walked in. Staff are friendly and funny, and the quality of the food is great. They could be a bit quicker though.
At my first visit, I’ve also noticed that I probably need to get used to hanging out outside of central London — while I was sitting outside, a girl, most likely an arts student, dropped some drawings on the empty chair at my table outside and asked me if I could watch her stuff for a few minutes. Later she came back, picked her drawings up and walked away. Fascinating that people in Wimbledon seem to trust complete strangers on the street — most likely a good sign that speaks for this neighbourhood.

Great food and lovely owners and staff makes this a consistent draw. The food is consistently high quality and the specials make it not boring when you are a regular customer.
Would recommend to anyone.