July 2020: The owners of the Cereal Killer Café have announced that neither of its Brick Lane or Camden locations will be reopening following Covid lockdowns.
Founded by identical twins Alan and Gary Keery in 2014, this all-day hipster café on Brick Lane sold rare and retro breakfast cereals from across America, Australia, France, South Africa, and South Korea by the bowl, along with a variety of flavoured milks and sugary toppings like Oreos and marshmallows. Despite being the target of anti-gentrification protests, the venue did a roaring trade, with its owners claiming to have sold one million bowls of cereal during its five and a half years of trading.