The Golden Sausage: Help us find Britain’s best biker café

It’s become one of the best-known biking cafés, but is it any good?

Our quest so far has taken us to cafés based at historic hangouts, beautiful locations and amazing roads, but this week we head deep into the centre of London to check out one of the newest kids on the block, the Bike Shed Motorcycle Club in trendy Shoreditch.

The Bike Shed is a unique destination, located amongst a series of railway arches just off Old Street, there’s the café/ restaurant, a barber, tattooist, apparel shop, chill out and meeting area, exhibition space and free, secure parking for around 100 bikes. “It’s the only reason we’ve come to London,” says Alex Turner, who’d ridden from Leamington Spa with Anna Brown on his sparkly orange Honda Hornet. “The steak salad is amazing.” The menu may well be more exotic than your average greasy spoon, but the old favourites are still in there, albeit with a gourmet twist. We gave the bacon and egg brioche a thorough going over and it passed our rigorous test with flying colours. Prices are among the most expensive we have found, but surprisingly keen for London, as most people we spoke to pointed out.

Paul Carter was meeting up with The Weekly Ride creator Eamonn Foy before heading out on a ride. “It’s such an inclusive place where Harley guys, sportsbike riders and brat builders all rub shoulders together,” Paul told us.

For a final word MCN caught up with head honcho, Anthony ‘Dutch’ Van Someren. “Whether it’s black pudding or pork and apple, we take our sausage very seriously,” says Dutch. “For great camaraderie you can’t beat the Bike Shed.”