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Tashas
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Tashas isn’t just a restaurant. Nor is it just a coffee shop. Instead this spot falls comfortably in the middle, mastering the all-day cafe. Like an airport, there are no rules and no reason why you shouldn’t have a bowl of rigatoni and a glass of wine at 11am while your friend has avocado toast. Unlike an airport, which its shiny, soulless Battersea Power Station home can feel like, you’ll actually enjoy the food.
Tashas is a Pinterest board called Beige Minimalist Chic come to life. There are copious amounts of cushions, paper teapots hang from the ceiling like an art installation in the lobby of a £700-a-night hotel, and it’s so pretty that even your most technologically challenged friend can get a good picture of you here.
photo credit: Aleksandra Boruch
photo credit: Aleksandra Boruch
photo credit: Aleksandra Boruch
photo credit: Aleksandra Boruch
photo credit: Aleksandra Boruch
Casual coffee dates have the potential to turn into three-hour lunches, because everyone looks good next to the floor to ceiling windows. It also helps that the menu caters just as well for your health-conscious aunt as it does your kind-of-bratty cousin, and breakfast is served until a non-judgmental 2pm. Yes, the wait for a table can be an hour if you come on the weekend, but if you order right once you’re in, you won’t regret it at all.
photo credit: Aleksandra Boruch
photo credit: Aleksandra Boruch
photo credit: Aleksandra Boruch
photo credit: Aleksandra Boruch
photo credit: Aleksandra Boruch
The pastas are the highlight and Savva’s chicken rigatoni is undoubtedly our favourite. Yes, the sauce probably has enough double cream in it to make Gino D’Acampo’s forehead veins pop, but it's a comforting meal that we’ll never tire of. Sandwiches are serious business too, like the hefty steak prego roll with generous amounts of rich spicy tomato sauce on the side for dunking. There are a couple of misses, like an aubergine mille feuille that’s a little bland, but ultimately, the menu is a pretty safe bet, whatever time of day you come.
Food Rundown
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Savva’s Chicken Pasta
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Prawn Pasta
Steak Prego
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Schnitzel Sarmie
Sweet Toast
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Sweetcorn Scramble
Cheezy Chicken Quesadilla