What may seem like just the Neighborhood Cafe is actually a piece of London history.

Dexter Generation Cafe drones in locals with a fascinating mix of character, home cooked food and timeless charm.

It's really special to us.

This place is not just a place of work.

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.

This is like the soul of East London right here.

This is every everything that makes East London great is distilled in this place.

It's magic.

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.

It's had since the beginning.

But the location is not the only thing that has stayed the same.

The police chief family has passed down the shop over generations.

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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What ingredients would you put in your full English English way?

With English preference.

Okay, that's it.

Five in English preface.

You go down there.

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There's so much in this place.

I really don't even know where to start.

All the food is like piping hot.

Just the right amount of spice in there.

Really?

Well, cooks, this'll.

Fried bread is so good on the black footing.

Well, thing is amazing.

You can really taste that.

This is home made just in this whole place.

I mean, Aled, the clients of friends, they speak to each other.

Everybody is sitting next to people that they don't know.

It's about 12 30.

So it's way past lunch time.

And there's so many people there still ordering English breakfast.

This dish is so popular, people are literally just coming for it anytime of the day.

Already.

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.

Very started, but people issue is much more than just the best breakfast spot in London.

With the unlikely blend of English and Italian savoir faire, Mama Maria cooks up earthly dishes like cannelloni bread pudding.

Alasania.

We'll never undershot with their customers, turning the dining room into an extended family room spot.

Uh huh.

Oh, I've been covering of my mom's itself.

Seems that's a long time.

I'm 31 there.

It's not coming from your home to your home for dinner was lovely homemade food.

Why would you not want that?

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.

If you're in London, you have to come for a change.

Just the best food.

Best people.

It's like a dinner and theater all in one S o.

Never on a hilarious no, absolutely everybody.

And if they don't know you, then they'll get to know you have this insane ability toe.

Remember everyone's face what they do.

No Onley locals, but also some A list Celebrities have made people itchy their home away from home Kray twins.

London's most notorious Gangsters in the fifties lived in the area and made the cafe there.

Go to breakfast.

Spot used bacon egg in tomorrow's every day.

That was their breakfast.

Something about they would come every morning for their when they finished in their nightclub.

They come straight years in the morning.

You didn't have phones in that then.

So if anyone wanted to meet them, they would come and meet their bring some pretty lots of different people in.

But there was always in the My dad always said they were very nice and polite way never had no trouble with that.

Is it true that you keep a celebrity book as well?

Yeah.

Do you want to see it?

Yes.

I don't get it for you.

Okay.

You know, I'm gonna get you.

Hang on one second.

That's big.

Yes.

That's what my wife said to me.

The first nightclub.

Yeah, I'm only joking.

Yeah, right.

So my cousin Tony actually started school Salvador.

So he started getting a little graphs years ago when we get a few celebrities.

And then we started to start taking pictures, were keeping a camera behind the theme, calling Farrell calling Farrell on Blow.

My faith you've got David Schwimmer popped in one day, addresses a local boy you've got sometimes keep in a way.

Little Georgia here she's just comes in.

When she's not a university will get to meet George.

Get to me.

That's what that's.

My favorite thing is you get to me, talk to different people.

So do you know all your clients by name?

No.

All of them Because we get loads of tourists.

But if they come in a few times, start coming in regular.

Yeah.

You know how much money you've got, Duncan, there you've got little Georgia.

They are.

You think the area has changed being a little bit.

And you're like, one of the last actual landmark.

Yeah, we are.

Really?

Because a lot of time, this place is closing and a little bit of chains opening up.

It's getting a few really getting independent little shops, which is always nice to see a little independent places opening.

But it has changed.

So much has changed for the better.

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.

The East End.

It started off my grandparent's s.

Oh, my grandmother was born in Chris Tree in 1882 Italian immigrants.

My great grand parents.

When she was 20 she married my granddad in 1900 they come to work in the cafe for the guy that owned it.

They took it over.

So it's been in our family since about 19 1 2nd, but we'll say 1900.

Level it off.

A lot of work interior.

My mom there putting in 1946.

Little tell you, man, look about you live around the corner.

Have a shooter there.

You've done it for us.

E don't remember not coming here.

To be honest, my dad brought me here the first time.

It's nice to see somewhere that doesn't change.

Everywhere around this changed so much over the last 25 years.

Thistles.