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tucked away on the busy Bennett Green Road in east London.
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What may seem like just the Neighborhood Cafe is actually a piece of London history.
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Dexter Generation Cafe drones in locals with a fascinating mix of character, home cooked food and timeless charm.
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It's really special to us.
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This place is not just a place of work.
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It's like our second home was Well, this is Appalachia, and it's been serving London's most iconic English breakfast for 120 years.
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This is like the soul of East London right here.
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This is every everything that makes East London great is distilled in this place.
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It's magic.
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Ability has stood in the same spot since 1900 keeping the same vibrant atmosphere Art Deco foot panels and iconic yellow Vitra light shop front.
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It's had since the beginning.
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But the location is not the only thing that has stayed the same.
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The police chief family has passed down the shop over generations.
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Today, never runs a cafe with his sister Ana, their cousin Tony and their mama, Maria, who's been taking care of the kitchen since 1961 E.
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How long have you been here in this kitchen working for the 0 68.
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50.
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I got breakfast ground.
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Really?
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What?
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Hello, Ramadan for the cannon.
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Walter.
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Ural agreed.
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After the Tunky on the public record.
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What ingredients would you put in your full English English way?
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With English preference.
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Okay, that's it.
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Five in English preface.
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You go down there.
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Uh, geometric bubble beings.
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Okay, A Okay.
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Okay.
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There's so much in this place.
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I really don't even know where to start.
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All the food is like piping hot.
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Just the right amount of spice in there.
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Really?
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Well, cooks, this'll.
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Fried bread is so good on the black footing.
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Well, thing is amazing.
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You can really taste that.
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This is home made just in this whole place.
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I mean, Aled, the clients of friends, they speak to each other.
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Everybody is sitting next to people that they don't know.
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It's about 12 30.
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So it's way past lunch time.
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And there's so many people there still ordering English breakfast.
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This dish is so popular, people are literally just coming for it anytime of the day.
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Already.
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So clearly, it's so filling in the variety and the way it's presented in there with the brat Cordy separated by hash browns.
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Very started, but people issue is much more than just the best breakfast spot in London.
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With the unlikely blend of English and Italian savoir faire, Mama Maria cooks up earthly dishes like cannelloni bread pudding.
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Alasania.
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We'll never undershot with their customers, turning the dining room into an extended family room spot.
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Uh huh.
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Oh, I've been covering of my mom's itself.
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Seems that's a long time.
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I'm 31 there.
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It's not coming from your home to your home for dinner was lovely homemade food.
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Why would you not want that?
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My friends say that I should be paid for advertisement because just about everyone I'm a I'm like you have to come to police to like.
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If you're in London, you have to come for a change.
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Just the best food.
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Best people.
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It's like a dinner and theater all in one S o.
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Never on a hilarious no, absolutely everybody.
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And if they don't know you, then they'll get to know you have this insane ability toe.
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Remember everyone's face what they do.
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No Onley locals, but also some A list Celebrities have made people itchy their home away from home Kray twins.
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London's most notorious Gangsters in the fifties lived in the area and made the cafe there.
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Go to breakfast.
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Spot used bacon egg in tomorrow's every day.
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That was their breakfast.
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Something about they would come every morning for their when they finished in their nightclub.
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They come straight years in the morning.
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You didn't have phones in that then.
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So if anyone wanted to meet them, they would come and meet their bring some pretty lots of different people in.
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But there was always in the My dad always said they were very nice and polite way never had no trouble with that.
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Is it true that you keep a celebrity book as well?
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Yeah.
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Do you want to see it?
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Yes.
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I don't get it for you.
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Okay.
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You know, I'm gonna get you.
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Hang on one second.
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That's big.
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Yes.
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That's what my wife said to me.
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The first nightclub.
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Yeah, I'm only joking.
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Yeah, right.
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So my cousin Tony actually started school Salvador.
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So he started getting a little graphs years ago when we get a few celebrities.
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And then we started to start taking pictures, were keeping a camera behind the theme, calling Farrell calling Farrell on Blow.
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My faith you've got David Schwimmer popped in one day, addresses a local boy you've got sometimes keep in a way.
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Little Georgia here she's just comes in.
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When she's not a university will get to meet George.
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Get to me.
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That's what that's.
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My favorite thing is you get to me, talk to different people.
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So do you know all your clients by name?
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No.
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All of them Because we get loads of tourists.
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But if they come in a few times, start coming in regular.
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Yeah.
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You know how much money you've got, Duncan, there you've got little Georgia.
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They are.
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You think the area has changed being a little bit.
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And you're like, one of the last actual landmark.
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Yeah, we are.
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Really?
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Because a lot of time, this place is closing and a little bit of chains opening up.
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It's getting a few really getting independent little shops, which is always nice to see a little independent places opening.
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But it has changed.
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So much has changed for the better.
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I hope you don't go to hit stop because you want to keep a bit of soul like the rial soul of the East End because the EastEnders of what makes the area this'll little places like that that make it so unique.
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The East End.
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It started off my grandparent's s.
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Oh, my grandmother was born in Chris Tree in 1882 Italian immigrants.
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My great grand parents.
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When she was 20 she married my granddad in 1900 they come to work in the cafe for the guy that owned it.
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They took it over.
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So it's been in our family since about 19 1 2nd, but we'll say 1900.
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Level it off.
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A lot of work interior.
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My mom there putting in 1946.
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Little tell you, man, look about you live around the corner.
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Have a shooter there.
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You've done it for us.
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E don't remember not coming here.
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To be honest, my dad brought me here the first time.
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It's nice to see somewhere that doesn't change.
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Everywhere around this changed so much over the last 25 years.
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Thistles.