Cafes of London - past and present

i remember the one on Exmouth market closing and a week later the daughter of the owner standing on the same spot handing out badly designed flyers with directions to their new premises that were not on a trendy market street now selling iberian peninsula delicacies, wagu burgers and sourdough pizza.
a bit of me died inside at the futility of clinging on to a once local institution and resignation in her young face witnessing the destruction of her family livelihood.
As somebody acutely aware of tradition and history but also never eating pie and mash as i simply didn’t like myself being both an enabler and reason for the eateries downfall, i still have anxiety attack’s about the sorry tale now.