An everyday scene of a crowded small café, viewed from the interior, looking down the café counter towards a window. A woman in overalls stands behind the counter wiping crockery. In the foreground, two customers stand in front of the counter, a man with a cup of tea, another reading a newspaper. There is a glass cabinet on top of the counter containing cakes. More customers can be seen in the background through the archway and out of the window, a street is just visible. The figures depicted from left are the café proprietor's daughter and fellow Euston Road School artists, Geoffrey Tibble (1909-1952), Victor Pasmore (1908-1998), Claude Rogers (1907-1979) and William Coldstream (1908-1987) with their friend Igor Anrep (1914-2003), son of the mosaicist, Boris. The café was presumably near to the School of Drawing and Painting that was founded by Coldstream, Pasmore and Rogers in London in 1937, initially based at 12 Fitzroy Street and then at 314/316 Euston Road until the outbreak of WW2 in 1939.
