It’s not every day you get to watch Ray Davies enjoy a full English breakfast and a cup of tea. Unless, that is, you spend every day in the Highgate branch of Café Rouge, in north London. The former Kinks frontman comes in “on a daily basis” and always places the same order, says Thea Karmpini, formerly the cafe’s assistant manager. Like Davies, director Christopher Nolan eschews the French onion soup and the steak baguette and opts for the full English. It is also Café Rouge, where the 90s never died, which makes it an appropriate setting for some of the main players of Cool Britannia – Jude, Kate and Liam – and the people who influenced them.

Source: The Guardian February 25, 2018 15:00 UTC