Fleet River Bakery

Good find this website is! I use it when I need a decent cafe or pub slightly off the beaten track to impress friends of my knowledge of London. Thanks Timeout!

Been going there for ages for the food, but recently noticed the staff have perked up. Well done for improving your customer service guys.

scrumptious food! salads are delicious and their coffees are great too!

great food and top notch monmouth cofffee. great seating downstairs... good little hideaway from the hustle and bustle

I went there today because it looks nice from the outside. But I was really disappointed on the staff. If I order a takeaway sandwich isn't the staff supposed to give it to me or do I need to grab it myself? I waited for the staff to do something. Instead they asked if I wanted something else. I said no and waited. They came back and I pointed out if I could get the sandwich. Finally I got it. Their attitude against the customers is a joke. I won't return. In that area I will consider Pret or Waitrose for sandwiches next time.

lovely coffe

I'm afraid this place is massively overrated. The staff are miserable. I asked for coffee with skimmed milk. I was given full fat milk and the lady, who thought I didn't see her pour the milk, insisted that it was skimmed milk.

I go to this cafe most mornings because the coffee is great and the seats downstairs are nice and out of the way of the Holborn hustle and bustle. But I don't look forward to being greeted by the same miserable staff members every day. Either they have severe amnesia, or they're just that rude, because despite showing up 3-out-of 5 days a week and ordering the same thing, it's the same blank, smug expressions on their faces every morning, and the same ignorance to my simple repetitive cappuccino order. The tall guy with the beard is nice, as is the girl with the dark hair. The others make up for the lack of bitterness in their excellent coffee by displaying in abundance in their shitty attitude. The prices are a laugh too.

The quiche was nice, the salad was completely unimaginative (come on - there's so much you can do with raw vegetables - a few leaves and cut-too-thick onion slices is not a salad in 2011. The serving girl was surly. Wouldn't recommend.

The Monmouth coffee is sublime but the attitude of the staff leaves a lot to be desired - and this is coming from a regular customer. If the coffee wasn't so good I wouldn't go there.