Georgina's
Greek and Mediterranean café tucked upstairs in the Covered Market, with vintage cinema posters covering the walls and ceiling.
Georgina's sits on the first floor of the Covered Market, reached by an internal staircase up from Avenue 3 — one of the few upstairs rooms in a market that is otherwise resolutely ground-floor, and easy to miss if you are walking the aisles head-down. The room above is the draw: walls and ceiling plastered in vintage cinema posters, a quirky bohemian fit-out that has been the café's signature for at least two decades.
The food today is Greek and Mediterranean rather than the all-day British café register the room used to be known for. The current menu leans on dishes like vegan imam bayildi (grilled aubergine with tomatoes, vegetables and hummus), a hot mezze plate built around gigantes beans, aubergine in tomato sauce, salad, hummus, olives and pitta, and a run of syrupy Greek desserts. Vegan and vegetarian labelling is clear, and the kitchen runs through to mid-afternoon rather than into the evening.
It works best as a daytime stop: a flat white and a slice of cake mid-morning before the lunch queues build downstairs, or a mezze plate upstairs with the cinema posters as your view. The upstairs setting means it is quieter than the aisle benches around the market's other cafés — the practical reason to climb the stairs.
Nearby
Within a few minutes' walk
