Ginger & White

Ginger and White on England's Lane Belsize Park, is well worth a visit - It's very cozy, really welcoming when your in need of a friendly face, but more importantly their hot chocolates are to die for!!!!!!!!!! Once you have tasted the hot choc you will be spoilt to go anywhere else - So for those who fancy a change from visiting their Hampstead branch, I strongly recommend a walk down the road!

Ginger and White on England's Lane Belsize Park, is well worth a visit - It's very cozy, really welcoming when your in need of a friendly face, but more importantly their hot chocolates are to die for!!!!!!!!!! Once you have tasted the hot choc you will be spoilt to go anywhere else - So for those who fancy a change from visiting their Hampstead branch, I strongly recommend a walk down the road!

Great coffee, served in a friendly, slow and hap-hazard fashion. Worst of all, the cafe encourage local trendy mums to bring their squealing horrors to ruin what could be quite a pleasant, relaxing atmosphere.

I really want to like this cafe - Hampstead could do with more distinctive places like this. Its just way too smug and self satisfied - the coffee is ok but its served with layers of "too cool for school" attitude. Its also very expensive - and I'm comparing it to other high end independents like Monmouth when I say that. Personally i would avoid...

Outstanding coffee, small but incredibly cosy space means always busy so if you can't stand crowds go elsewhere. Soft boiled eggs & soldiers are as good as they get. In fairness to other reviews, staff turnover has meant service not as attentive as the early days but not that big of a deal - its a cafe after all!

Hugely over-priced food and teeny-tiny portions. A £5 salt beef sandwich = two small thin slices of bread, a single thin slice of salt beef and two gerkin slices - it made me sad just to look at it lost on its huge white plate. The food isn't that great either, both times I have been the cakes were a bit stale. The staff are pleasant enough but more interested in chatting to each other than working; people (and dirty crockery on empty tables) sitting outside are forgotten about altogether. The location is sweet, the lap-rugs for outside tables are a nice touch, and the drinks selection is good, but nonetheless this place should be avoided - all style and little substance.

Great coffee. Awful service. Picked a quiet Wednesday morning for a coffee at Ginger and White's. Pretty busy in there but turnover on seats. Interrupted on the phone by obtuse staff who proffer me a croissant I didn't order, then insist I move one place to the left, for no discernable reason whatsoever. I excuse myself on the phone to my friend and move to the left. Next another staff member picks my bag from beneath my chair and hangs it up, without asking. Finally, I am asked if I would like to move again, to a newly vacated table in the corner. I would have preferred just to enjoy my coffee in peace.

The staff were friendly and helpful but I will not be returning to Ginger & White because it is not value for money. £6 for a side dish size salad which left me hungry all afternoon- boo!

Shockingly bad value even for Hampstead. A pork belly sandwich -- two slices of sliced white with a thin sliver of pork, a spinach leaf and smear of chutney -- for almost £5 was sub-Pret standard and the gluten-free apple, cinnamon and almond cake was a soggy slice lacking any flavour of almond, cinammon or apple. A final bill of over £12 (including a reasonable pot of tea) took the edge well off an otherwise beautiful sunny May day.