When Isaac Rangaswami realised he’d been to all of London’s oldest caffs, those endangered restaurants some people call greasy spoons, he decided to showcase them on Instagram.
Two years later and Isaac’s page has built a cult following, using poetic captions to draw attention to the romance of these living museums and their delicious food.
Isaac’s mission is simple: to get people going to caffs. But he’s passionate about other affordable, historically important eating places too, such as chip shops, Chinese takeaways and Indian restaurants, which he has written about for food newsletter Vittles.
@Caffs_not_cafes has featured in Time Out London and The Face, describing Isaac as “an alternative historian of London”.