Caffe-in - Tower Hamlets

Wonderful place with really good food. The staff is very friendly and helpful. Perfect breakfast spot!

Great coffee lovely brunch wine and smoothies. Comfortable seats relaxing music, friendly. Great place to drink ipa.

I went to have breakfast after the flower market on a Sunday morning. I was looking for somewhere to sit and it was suggested that I should eat off of the (sloping lid of an upright piano. Purlease. I shared a table with some nice ladies. I ordered eggs florentine. Eggs florentine is a classic recipe you don 't buggar about with it. It came with a few raw spinach leaves. I remonstrated that eggs florentine was a classic dish involving cooked spinach. (Obviously one advantage of serving the spinach raw is that you have to provide much less of it . I was told that they were unable to cook the spinach(! . I was referred to the menu which said spinach as though thad had alerted me to the fact that it would be raw. I suggested that if you want to depart from a classic recipe, then you should say so on the menu. I didn 't want the nouveau eggs florentine. My blood was up. I left £3.50 for a £2.50 coffee on the table. I said, as I was leaving, that I had left money on the table. All the waitress could say was payment is at the counter . It 's just all rubbish. At the point I left, the only other people there were the two nice ladies. Was it too much to scoop up the price of the coffee plus (if I may say, in the circumstances, generous tip from the table? Are there hipsters out there who want to eat breakfast on a Sunday morning off the lid of an upright piano? Good luck to you. There 's a point where bohemian morphs into ropey.

The food here is delicious and the style is unsurpassed, however blighting what would be a great contribution to the cafes on Hackney road, the staff are very rude. There are no signs to tell you that laptops are not permitted in here over the weekend. Don 't worry though, because as soon as you have finished your food the staff will come over and tell you this. I spent £9.00 on this simple but well designed menu, thinking this would allow me to be in here for a while and respecting the businesses need to have paying customers filling this space. There was a long gap between me and the food arriving, which the female server did apologise for, however as soon as I had finished my food my empty plate was collected with the accusation that 'I had been in here for over an hour and that she was losing customers '. It had not been an hour, but instead for about 35 minutes. Most of this time was spent waiting for my food, and had I not had a laptop I would have been sitting or reading anyway. This is not a suggestion that you should change your permitting of laptops over the weekend, but instead, do not make paying customers regret spending their money in your establishment. Put up a sign, or at least learn better customer service. I would advise both.

At loss, for somewhere to eat, when I discovered Hackney Farm Cafe closed at 4.30pm I crossed the road and discovered Caffe-in, this establishment furnishings had me wondering what the origin of the food was. Curiosity got the better of me, and I asked for the menu, this I scanned and selected the Caffe-In Quesdilla, which is Apple wood smoked ham, peppers with onion cheese at a respectable price of £5.50 When it arrived it had small side salad, and I was pleasantly surprised with taste and value for money snack I had. I had can of San Pellegrino lemon, though there was a container with water for free.