Café Camino

The List's Eating & Drinking Guide 2008 is now in the shops. This review is taken from the 2007 edition.

Pick your moment at Café Camino and you could find your coffee and sandwich accompanied by the solemn, yet uplifting, tones of a Catholic Mass being sung next door. This is the St Mary's Cathedral café and, since 2005, it has been doing excellent business feeding the congregation, shoppers and office workers from the surrounding area. It has a light and spacious seating area, with flowers on the tables and windows along one side allowing for people-watching as you digest. Good, solid fare includes meat or vegetarian sandwiches and wraps with Cumberland sausage and onion relish or mozzarella, sun-dried tomatoes and pesto. Chicken, bacon and brie is freshly made on the griddle and accompanied by a crunchy salad garnish with balsamic dressing. Alternatively, there are baked potatoes or home-made soups such as sweet potato and butternut squash to sample. Tea, coffee and juices are all fair trade, and there is a wide range of patisseries and cakes for that afternoon lull. Food is served throughout the day and into the early evening. Lunchtimes can be particularly busy, as are Sundays, with breakfast a popular option for those hurrying to services.

• High point: Eating chocolate cake to the strains of Mass
• Low point: Frenetic just before services start