Washroom converted into London coffee shop

There's no place like a bathroom for coffee and a sandwich in Britain.

In a clever re-purposing of limited space in London, an entrepreneur has turned a former public toilet from the Victorian era into a cafe named Attendant. There's no attendant there anymore to clean up after Londoners' bathroom visits, but you can sit down at a converted urinal to enjoy lunch.

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The underground shop opened in February after its owner, Peter Tomlinson, dumped more than £100,000 into converting the restroom, according to the BBC.

Some of that went to cleaning, no doubt. Tomlinson said the place had been thoroughly scrubbed and the toilet plumbing covered with concrete and capped.

Conversions like the Attendant mark a trend in London, according to the BBC. Others have built apartments, like this one, with its stylish design that bears no resemblance to its former existence.

The night club CellarDoor boasts that its venue is rumoured to have once been the chosen bathroom of Oscar Wilde. Night clubs and comedy clubs such as Ginglik, which is in a former toilet built for the 1908 Olympic Games, have also been converted.

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The venue surely inspires the jokes of comedians performing in what was once a place meant for a very different kind of act.