Rightly or wrongly we may be teetering towards a vague genre of semi-normal – some local pubs are serving takeaway pints and Kennington Park is looking more like the Pyramid stage at Glastonbury. What we never expected to see so soon, however, is a new café opening in Greater Kennington. 

Nue Ground is a very bright and zippy café located on the ground floor of the new ‘Millennials only’ high rise ‘Uncle’ on the Kennington side of Elephant. The original Nue Ground is in Clapham and serves sandwiches and light dinners. The offerings at our outlet are more limited and primarily breakfast related, but maintains the company ethos of being ‘healthy, well balanced and as ethically sourced as possible’. 

My dining partner had the very heartily sized baked eggs which were well cooked and not too hard. It featured some lovely butterbeans and sweet peppers and seasoned with labneh and harissa. Your scribe had a very virtuous granola with huge blackberries and raspberries with a coconut flavoured yogurt and a dusting of pistachios. When we were there we also oogled over some pretty cakes. 

We have the utmost respect for Neu Ground and certainly hope they succeed. The only downsides being that it is kind of expensive for what it is, and the wait staff are still learning how to do their job (we were given cold coffee twice). In these exceptional times we have to take pleasure in the small stuff, and if nothing else it feels very refreshing to walk into an actual establishment and order something from a menu. But if you can’t walk in,  Nue Ground is also on Deliveroo.