I love searching for quirky and unusual cafés for my #todayscoffeestop series which I keep on my Fakebook page. Yes, I know I know! But all my friends and family are still on web2, plus I have accumulated a small group of followers on my Fakebook page😄.
Anyway, back to Hivesphere. If you've been to London, you may have seen these underground public toilets. Many are no longer in use and some have been sold off and repurposed. What I'm going to show you today is one such example.
The Attendant was a public toilet built in the Victorian times, that's the late 19th century and has now been converted to a cafe where cool people drink coffee - their words not mine. Follow me inside...
You go down a flight of stairs first, must have been pretty tricky when it was still a toilet and you're desperate...
Then there's a short passage way leading to the inside. Both these photos were taken as I left the café. Snowpea and I was a little excited when we first arrived and forgot to take any photos.
I wasn't sure what to expect inside, and how a toilet could be converted to a cafe. Toilets are pretty small spaces. I have to say, the owners did a very good job. There was a good size serving area on one side of the wall, that took up about one third of the whole area. Next to it were three small sqaure tables at the end of the toilet café.
Opposite the serving area are six seats facing the wall. They're like bar seats, except these used to be....
The urinials 😂😂😂
They've fitted a bar table top across all the urinials, but the pipes and partitions are still there. I haven't seen many urinials in my real life but these ceramic ones are pretty nice. By the way, just to be clear, I'm not a pervert !! I've seen some urinals before as sometimes there are mixed sex toilet cubicles!
I asked my husband if he felt he was drinking coffee inside a toilet. He said the inside doesn't look like a toilet until he sat down. He was sitting directly underneath the tank on the wall. Imagine sipping your coffee in front of a urinal and you pull the toilet flush 😂
Luckily I have no vision what one might have been doing here 100 years ago on this very spot. It just felt a little odd for us to be partitioned off from one another.
And finally, I mustn't forget the actual coffee review. I'm not much of a coffee drinker, but I found this blend a bit on the strong intense side 😉
What's the most unusual place you've been for coffee?