Theo leads from the front

This is our third (and unlikely to be the last) blog which includes Brixton Village, if you want to see previous instalments click here and here.

Last Saturday our friends Marsh and Fee picked us up and we went to Brixton for lunch.

We took Theo in our Baby Bjorn front pack. Babies are supposed to be 3.5kg before you put them in the front pack, Theo is only 3.3kg but we tried him out and he seemed fine.

Jackie and I have never been to Brixton Village on a Saturday, we've only ever been on Sunday when it is quiet and many of the shops are closed. It was quite a different atmosphere on Saturday with hoards of people, considerable queues for some of the more established cafes and a number of shops open that are not open on Sundays.

We found a tiny middle eastern restaurant, called French and Grace (see their blog post on their development here) they could probably seat 16 people tops. We managed to snare a table outside for the 5 of us. They had a very small kitchen and a small menu to match. And they had already run out of their special for the day, which both Marshall and I wanted. The food we ordered came quickly, was quite simple but really delicious.

We loved it and the atmosphere was great, across from us was a pizza restaurant that was busy and had the boom sounds cranking, while to our right was a Malaysian restaurant and on the left was a butchers.

Theo in his Baby Bjorn, he didn't have much of a view, but he slept most of the time anyway

My view of Theo

The shop on our left as we ate lunch was this butcher, not sure about the food safety involved here but we didn't mind. 

To our right was the Malaysian restaurant - they had a bit of a queue. 

Our middle eastern restaurant was called French and Grace

The Bush Family

My wrap

I had to protect Theo from any food or sauce dropping from my  wrap, the enamel plate sat nicely on Theo's head, he didn't mind a bit. 

The tiny kitchen and friendly staff at French and Grace

After lunch we went to get a coffee from Federation coffee, I think I've mentioned them in previous blog posts, the coffee is good but the service not so, this was once again the case. They were busy but we were told it would take them 15 minutes to make our coffees. I'm sorry if you're a coffee shop you should be able to keep up with demand better than that. Their coffees are really nice and we did wait which was ok as we could look around the other shops and cafes but Federation coffee is still yet to win me over - it takes more than great coffee to make a great coffee shop.

There are so many great cafes in Brixton Village we've decided the challenge is to eat at them all. I can't wait!