Darren Hayman's personal guide to the old classic Cafés of Great Britain. (with a heavy bias towards London and the South East).

Eastbourne is fantastic. There’s no young people and no young things. Well that’s not entirely true , there is a section of town that gets a little cloney, but all the streets closer to the sea front are like walking into a sunbleached sea side postcard from the early 1970s.

Macari’s is multicoloured, it has multi-coloured vinyl booths but most of all it has multi-coloured booths but most of all it has multi-coloured cakes! Pink icing, blue icing, who makes that stuff?

I was there when two women tried to get out without paying. Old ladies ,you can’t trust them.