Tiffins

It’s fine. Just fine. They have a wide range of food, but said their house speciality was hot salt beef on rye.
Fine, then. I’ll have that.
What I got for £4 was hot salt beef (which wasn’t really that good) on white bread with a bit of rye.
It’s grand. Hot salt beef can be 2 things: good or bloody excellent. This was just good.
and 90p for a gherkin? what?
They had wraps and a range of things that looked better, so I may be back, after a while.

Really interesting place that you don’t find too much in London. It was like a café with a diner-​style menu. Lots of tables and I just fell in love with the marble surfaced tables and the black and white tiled floor. It just has a good vibe to it.
My food wasn’t as great though – I had a falafel wrap which came with no side salad and I feel like there might have been some type of ketchup-​infused sauce in the wrap. My friend’s panini (which came with a salad) looked much better.
Super cute place for a cheap sit down lunch in a decent atmosphere in the heart of Leather Lane.

Hello Leather Lane, a Jew has arrived and needs feeding. What! Tiffins you say? But don’t they have curries and chips on the menu? Oh they do. And potato latkes, and salt beef bagels, and gherkins…
This is a Lizzie 5 star joint, this is not Gordon Ramsey’s idea of great dining. I like the fact I will spend the rest of my afternoon smelling of the greasy other people’s lunch has been cooked in. When my potato latke arrived (£1.50 only!) it was sat on a paper towel. I held that paper towel up and I could see through the fabulous window of grease. The salt beef as pretty tasty too.
This is a greasy spoon, greasy being the word. In a wonderful way, it’s peering into the true heart of London. A multicultural menu, most of it fried and slapped on a plate with little thought but a lot of love. This is where you’ll go for comfort food, a taste of home and a chance to flick through The Sun during your lunch hour.

A quirky little café on Leather Lane that could easily escape your notice what with all the other great things to eat. But to survive in that neighbourhood, you know they have to be pretty good.
Perhaps the biggest quirk of this prime breakfast spot is that everything on the menu is a special (the special of the day is a ‘chef’s special’), but they spoil you for choice with about 30 specials for breakfast alone. They don’t skimp either — a nice heaping place of eggs, bacon, sausage and bean a hot chocolate made with steamed milk in a ridiculous tall glass. Best of all, we had a really lovely and delightfully camp waiter, just what you’re looking for at 7.30 in the morning.

Tiffins is a mini cafeteria with a random and varied selection of food. They have curries, pizza, sandwiches, full English breakfasts, anything you can possibly think of. Most of their meals are under a fiver. If you have an eclectic palate and you like to have a little bit of everything when you sit down for a meal then you will enjoy this place. If, like me, it takes you over an hour to decide what you feel like eating because choice is the devil and if there’s too much of it you want it all, but you don’t really, and you can’t figure out what you want to eat because it all looks good and it SUCKS that you can’t figure it out quickly because you’re hungry now and ARG! — then do not venture into this place as it would result in complete and utter food selection torture. Have your mind made up before you dine here or you’re in for a masochistic lunchtime experience.