Retro food with a retro soundtrack.  Think Sly and the Family Stone.  Nice simple uncluttered decor with tables quite far apart.  It's been a while since I have been in a restaurant where there is no chance of following the conversation at another table.  Friendly service.

Food was a little uneven but mostly good.  We started with a bar snack of crispy anchovy.  These were deep fried anchovy fillets which I found rather intriguiging but my companion found impossibly salty.  Was happy to try these, but probably wouldn't order them again.

We both had sole as our main.  Big piece of fish, though not grilled as stated on the menu.  Battered or heavily floured and pan fried instead.  Very nicely cooked though, with a cockle butter that tasted of  preserved lemon in the background and served with a pleasant creamed kale.

Wild garlic fries were excellent.  Thin shoe string fries, very crisp and sprinkled with pan fried garlic greens.  Very tasty and redolent with heady garlic.

I didn't like our other side of avocado, cucumber, and spinach salad garnished with crispy capers.  I ordered this because I wanted to try the deep fried capers.  The oil in the vinaigrette tasted old or maybe even rancid.  Or maybe the oil used for frying the capers was over used.  At any rate, the vinaigrette didn't taste fresh at all.  When I mentioned this to our waitress we were offered desserts on the house as compensation.  We were too full, but that was a nice gesture.

We ate at a discounted soft re-launch price as they are testing out a new menu.  At full price including a bottle of house wine our bill would have been £60.

Coin Laundry is a casual, retro cafe/restaurant with a new breakfast menu. Open from 8am Coin Laundry serve unique breakfast options such as grilled grapefruit with brown sugar. I settled on the banana pancakes, which come with a sprinkling of walnuts and drizzled in syrup. The pancakes at Coin Laundry are