Wake The Dead Coffee, Lloyd Park, Walthamstow

LLoyd Park, Walthamstow

I’m not usually one to promote coffee trucks as, so often, they can’t hold a candle to speciality cafes that have the time and space to make a decent brew but I’m big enough to hold my hands up and say “I’m wrong” when I’ve realise I’ve made a mistake.

From 10m to 4pm every Saturday, Lloyd Park hosts a market of food stalls, plant vendors and other local artisans smattered outside the front of the William Morris Gallery. It’s a great place to be on a lazy weekend afternoon, especially if the sun is out, a you can wander around the moat, through the house’s gardens and enjoy an oasis of calm just off the thrum of Blackhorse Road. Here, amongst the hawkers and home bakers, sits Wake the Dead Coffee, a hardcore coffee van that serves up their own roasts.
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The oat lattes ooze sophistication with a chocolatey, caramel coated delight that really complements a sourdough donut from across the way. The nuttiness that rises through can make for a rich, all encompassing mouthfeel and it can put a spring in your step, whatever the weather.