the little cake kitchen

The little cake kitchen is another delightful bakery with just enough tables in its handkerchief-sized space to count as a cafe (though beware they don't have a permit for real coffee cups; there's no space for the necessary steriliser, apparently) and the all-important loo...

There's no two ways about it, this loo is all about functionality! You have the sense of being an interloper into a space not quite intended for you, if you venture here. Staff clothing and various other accoutrements vie for space with essential loo features. It's tiny and grimy; no fancy art or mirrors here... But there's something almost pure and honest that I like about it, even thought on my aesthetic criteria is lacks a certain something (well, to be a honest, a certain everything). That said, there is beauty to be seen, if you look for it.

And it does have natural light - of sorts. It does have domestic loo roll. It does have paper hand towels. It's otherwise small and cramped, and there's certainly no way a wheelchair could enter or exit... The basin is nice, an old domestic style, but it has two taps, dishing either cold or far-too-scalding-hot-for-me (but probably good if you're a bakery worker!) water. The soap's disguised in what looks more like a food-syrup dispenser, so I'm judging it pretty middle of the road.

So it's not exactly a top loo, not a reason to visit the little cake kitchen, but I perversely like it all the same. Thinking about why this is, since it really stretches the bounds, I think it's because they haven't made some half-arsed attempt to disguise the brute reality that this is a functional space one should enter and exit as quickly as possible, and get back to making (or eating) that damn fine ginger loaf!