We LOVE Kings Cross.
We LOVE the traffic, the noise, the sirens at 4am in the morning.
We LOVE being woken up by the first train.
We LOVE Regeneration Chic: the boots, the broken nails.
We LOVE showering twice and still feeling dirty, the perpetual grime.
All you hard hats, we want to have your babies.
We LOVE doorstep sarnies crammed with succulent roast pork and an apple sauce to die for.
We LOVE nursing cups of strong, hot coffee on miserable winter mornings – especially if we had too much to drink the night before.
We LOVE Polish builders!
We LOVE the congestion charge, the one way system, fighting with posh dudes for cabs in the rain.
We LOVE it when your oyster card won’t swipe.
We LOVE little freebies.
We LOVE real ales, the perfect pint. Enterprise Inns!
We LOVE walking into warm, friendly bars on cold, grey days.
We LOVE good music, world music, live music.
We LOVE the Kings Cross Hot Club! (We would LOVE them to play here every month!)
We LOVE not quite knowing when we’re going to open (16th, 20th?).
We LOVE a challenge!
We LOVE Islington Borough Council, their clean street policy.
We LOVE cheerful friendly people - as well as the ones that have just had a fight with the missus.
We LOVE being human.
We’d LOVE you to hold your yoga/pilates/[please insert] here! Can we join in?
We LOVE lost Aussie backpackers.
We love socialising, parties, banquets..
We LOVE nibbles, sharing, using your fingers.
We LOVE you! We’d LOVE you to come and eat our gorgeous food. Real food made every morning with fresh, seasonal - sometimes organic - well & locally sourced ingredients.
Could we cook eels out of the canal?
We LOVE creamy chowder, sweet and sour creole chicken, lentil burgers WITH FLAVOUR, salads that aren’t wilting, treacle tart and real Austrian apple strudel, finishing a plate of food and feeling like you’ve eaten.
We LOVE vegans. We LOVE vegetarians. We LOVE all you wonderful people on weird diets and with odd intolerances – especially when you give us notice.
We LOVE smokers that show consideration for other diners.
We LOVE Hungarian Beef Goulash – chunks of lean beef marinaded in red wine, doused in paprika and garlic and cooked until tender with tomato, shallots & sweet red peppers – with wedges of home made bread and butter.
WE’d LOVE a family to sit around a table the way they do at home without having to worry about anything. We especially LOVE your well behaved kids.
We’d LOVE you to love us.