The Sausage and Mash Cafe has been sitting here under the Westway flyover on Portobello Road for what seems like forever, as the decor certainly pays testament to. Far from being detrimental, this only serves to make this palace of comfort food even more cosy, and a very welcome place on the stormiest and most dismal winter nights. Ignore Time Out’s recent declaration of S&M as ‘tired’, they are still serving the damned good sausage and mash that people come here for year after year. Every day there are different special sausages, such as wild boar, and vegetarians are amply catered for. You will choose your type of sausage, mash and gravy, so there is plenty of scope for mixing things up and bit. Each table has what seems like most of its surface area taken up by an absurd variety of English and French mustards, all of which are amazing!

I think if the S&M Cafe did not exist, I would not be able to survive winter in London. Thank goodness it does!

this place has everything you want if you are tired, hungover or simply need some good no-nonsense food to warm your cockles! always delicious, nice big portions of hearty food at a very reasonable price. in contrast to other portobello hang outs, s & m is unpretentious and does exactly what it says on the tin!

The S&M cafe is one of my favourite little joints on the Portobello Road. Serving as the title of the cafe suggests: Good old traditional sausage and mash! In a variety of fashions, aswell as serveral other favourites including: Stilton Welsh Rarebit, garlic mushrooms, shepards pie, oxtail soap, steak and kidney pie aswell as a full english breakfast...yeah! Soak in the flavour of Portobello Road whilst it's in full swing on a market day. Or enjoy a beer at the end of a hard day with friends at the S&M cafe. The S&M cafe also have branches in Islington, the o2 centre (in the Docklands) and Spitalfields (near Brick Lane and Old Street). The S&M Cafe is exactly as it sounds, unprentenious, with good quality grub!