Creem Cheeze and White Poppies

By Caroline Osella|October 26, 2017|Is Worthing the New Brighton?, The English Seaside Town and Whiteness, Worthing|0 comments

We’re in The Orchard cafe for their vegan tea event.  There’s 7 of us, in a chock-full cafe (tickets sold out weeks ago), and we look around in wonder, interested to know who are the vegan-or-vegan-curious of Worthing, then? There’s an all-ages crowd, including some very glamorous young folks, a sprinkling of beard-and-tattoo dudes, at least one person who has been vegan since the 1970s – and a baby whose

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Black Crow Cafe, South Farm Road

By Caroline Osella|April 21, 2017|Is Worthing the New Brighton?, Worthing|0 comments

The barista’s tattoos are beautifully done – multi-coloured swoops and curls of dramatic shapes. It makes you a bit dizzy to look at them as you sideways-squint, trying to make out the images, trying not to be too stare-bear, while she focuses on not getting scalded by the heavyweight high-end machine.  She looks up and catches you looking a bit too intensely.  You smoothe it over by asking what the

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