The Café Chronicles

Daniel Ruiz Tizon returns with a Christmas Eve special of The Café Chronicles from the South Lambeth Portuguese café he has holed himself up in since the summer of 2001. As the gentrification sweeping through Nine Elms and Vauxhall accelerates, The Café Chronicles documents the characters and community threatened by these changes. This packed festive edition features chin fissures, cartoon flattened pastries, leviathan eclairs, hairy chested waiters in open necked shirts shedding chest hair in customers coffees, and Old Twitter, the octogenarian couple with their newspapers breaking yesterday’s news today. And Daniel looks back at an old Christmas exchange with a café regular that kick-started the erosion of his long-prized anonymity in the café.Twitter: @1607WestEggdanielruiztizon.com

Friday 17 August 2018Episode 10 – The NodA ‘nod’ introduced into his prayers by an old teacher continues to cause Daniel problems, but its presence may have inadvertently led to a thawing out of the frosty relations between our host and the new waiter.Last in the series.Written and presented by Daniel Ruiz Tizon.

Thursday 16 August 2018Episode 9 – The Lamp Post Pole DancerThe sun brings out the Lamp Post Pole Dancer and the ensuing chaos leads to Daniel having trouble getting his latte.Written and presented by Daniel Ruiz Tizon.

Wednesday 15 August 2018Episode 8 – The Head Man of SW8The unusually hot October evening back in 2011 when the Drunken Somalian abused the café regulars is recalled.Written and presented by Daniel Ruiz Tizon.

Tuesday 14 August 2018Daniel looks at the difficulties the introduction of a coffee reward card in the café has caused him.Written and presented by Daniel Ruiz Tizon.

Monday 13 August 2018The death of a bald regular revives uncomfortable memories for Daniel of the time he mistook another bald regular for the now deceased.Written and presented by Daniel Ruiz Tizon.

Friday 10 August 2018The salmon-coloured socks of a laughs-too-easily customer leads to a troubling, long-suppressed recollection for Daniel.Written and presented by Daniel Ruiz Tizon.

Thursday 9 August 2018The addition of the Hash Brown to the now all-day English breakfast, and the curious manner of its standalone delivery, over-complicates the café breakfast.Written and presented by Daniel Ruiz Tizon.

Tuesday 7 August 2018Episode 2 – Poor Butter CoverageDaniel locks horns with a new waiter over the poor butter coverage on his Portuguese Toast.Written and presented by Daniel Ruiz Tizon.

Tuesday 7 August 2018Episode 2 – Poor Butter CoverageDaniel locks horns with a new waiter over the poor butter coverage on his Portuguese Toast.Written and presented by Daniel Ruiz Tizon.

Monday 6 August 2018Episode 1 – The HandshakePriding himself on a firm traditional handshake, a turned ankle on his way to the café leads to what is easily Daniel’s worst handshake of the year.Written and presented by Daniel Ruiz Tizon.