Mondays get a bad rap. Check the story behind the Boomtown Rats' I Don't Like Mondays, which is best not revisited here. A Monday car is a new car bedevilled by problems because the people on the assembly line were thinking about how much they hated coming to work. Among the grimly humorous epigrams internet research turns up, my favourite is, "If each day is a gift, I want to know where I can return Mondays".
The two women behind this small but perfectly formed Kingsland eatery, food bloggers Eleanor Ozich of Petite Kitchen and Hannah Horton of Health Yeah, plainly had the idea of rebranding the much-maligned first day of the week when they named this "wholefoods kitchen and bar". They say as much on something I read as we waited for our food.
Their restaurant is down a steep driveway, between Jaan and Farang in the middle of the Kingsland shops, a pretty little place covered in vines and with two courtyards, one covered, one open to the elements. The latter is perhaps slightly preferable because you don't have to stare at a parked car.
The Professor and I had arrived on our newly acquired e-bikes and I wanted to take them down the drive and park them prominently, because I thought it might boost our Friends-of-the-Earth credentials, but - perhaps doubting her ability to make a dignified arrival after such a steep descent - she vetoed that idea. So we wandered in carrying our helmets, immediately increasing the average age on the premises by about 12 years and cutting the cool factor by half, though no one seemed too alarmed.
