Haberdashery

This is a great cafe in Crouch End, quirky and friendly and great food and drink. They also do free venue hire on Saturday night (subject to a minimum spend). I had my engagement drinks party (complete with fabulous cakes and lots of cocktails) there and the venue was perfect - friendly staff, and just fun and relaxed for cocktails and cake with friends and family. Strongly recommend!

There aren't many places in London that would get me writing in but this is definitely one of them - I went to the Haberdashery after a friend of mine had an engagement party there and the place looked so lovely and the people working there including one owner went so out of their way to make sure that everyone loved it. So having heard about the new conservatory we decided to head there for a real lazy Sunday brunch when the sun was finally out and all four of us loved our food - the veggie breakfast and the French toast with grilled sausage both get top marks. The muffins and breads baked in garden pots were a lovely touch, and the whole thing just had the feel of community at its core -London needs a lot more places like this...

Having read all the hype I was really disappointed by the Haberdashery. We visited on a busy Saturday lunchtime, and the owner was curt and condescending with us when we asked (on a cool and windy day) not to be seated outside. When we did get a table, I found the prices steep (£4.25 for a chocolate brownie; £8.75 for a sandwich or salad; £12 for the other main dishes; and £1.75 for a tiny carton of children's fruit juice. ) Much more importantly though, the food was mediocre (halloumi and tomato on toasted mother's pride; a slab of tepid polenta and half a can of chickpeas with three slivers of avocado, with the dullest of dressings). The fresh fruit juice was good (£3.95 though!). This feels like a cafe living off its reputation - I certainly won't go back.

You have to commend the owners for their community spirit and starting up fun innovations for the town such as Barboot. The food can be a bit hit and miss. There is a quirky menu but the execution isn't always spot on and it's a bit pricey for what you get. One of the owners is very chatty which is can be nice or not depending on whether you want to relax and read the papers and sink into your own little world. I tend to go to Coffee Circus now which has less room for prams and is a better place for peace and quiet, plus I prefer their coffee. I'm glad that the Haberdashery opened as it's better for us all to have an independant rather than another chain place but its definitely more a yummy mummy destination. The garden is nice and gets the sun in the morning.

I am so glad that i found out about this place. It is the kind of Cafe i have been looking for a long time being enoyed by all this boring brance Cafes kicking around all over London. The Haberdashery has got a nice flair, it makes you fell home and cozy even if they if the stuff is buzy. And Yes they seem to do well, because everytime i pass the Cafe it's full of people, and that says already a lot about a place. The staff is always very polite and happy and the food is just amazing! I just tried last week the Special Burger (or club Burger) with chickpeas and grilled aubergine and beetroot houmous, hmmmm it was so delicous. After that i had a big piece of Banana and Cinnamon Cake:) First i thought, what a srange combination but it was delicous!!!! But thats not all! The Haberdashery has got a lot events going on as the monthly Barboot (Vintage Sale) , 3 Songs Night and the monthly Art Exhibition of local artists. If you are in Crouch End or around this area, you have go to The Haberdashery. I am a big Fan!!!

This place is lovely - we have been coming here for several weeks now and it's really very good - just the type of thing Crouch End should have. Today I sat in the sunny garden and had a veggie parmesan frittata sandwich with the eggs drizzled in a basil olive oil, and it was just spot on - fresh and tasty. Their veggie breakfast is fantastic too - grilled halloumi, fresh spinach etc. My only complaint is that it can get insanely busy on the weekends and even other times, but the staff and owners are always polite and friendly and it's nice to see a new business like this thriving in these times. Highly recommended...

This is probably a LOVELY place to have a coffee and croissant in the morning. I just had lunch there with my partner and unfortunately it was dreadful. And dreadful at a price! One clue was that the menu board outside displayed no prices. But I wasn't worried about the cost if we could have a nice lunch there. I had wanted to try Haberdasheries as others had told me 'Oh, you MUST go there.. it's lovely.' Well, maybe it is lovely but the food ain't.. Cappuccinos arrived in pudding bowls and were not very hot (not surprising if the bowls were used cold). My partner had a Full English and I had a Falaffel veggie lunch platter thing. The breakfast was dry, not helped by the lack of beans, and a homemade hash brown even greasier than the processed variety. Bubble would have been a better. The portion wasn't great either; one sausage, one mushroom(!), one egg. One positive note: the egg was tasty. There's yourone star. My falaffel special was worse. The falaffel comprised two fried discs of a smooth, pasty substance; a sad effort at homemade falaffel. Accompanying hummous tasted like it was made with 50% garlic and too much tahini. Another sad effort. -Who cooks this stuff, don't they TASTE it? It needs more chick peas. With this was a dollop of sieved beetroot mush and some sweet pepper tasting mush. Oh, and a small turret of cooked (well, warm) earthy-tasting lentils. The mush was actually quite nice but would have been more at home with a salad dish. The only salad with this was a tuft of rocket. There was also an interesting muffin-shaped bread served with this. At first this tasted interesting but later an overpowering taste of strong olive oil just wouldn't go away and this bread was too doughy in the middle. Real fart-fodder. I love olives and like olive oil but you shouldn't cook with the strong stuff, you should save it for salads or pouring onto bread. The taste took about 1/2 hour to go away. The bill was over twenty five quid for just the two dishes and two coffees. Last night we ate at the superb A Baia cafe in Camden and a whole HOT cooked dinner of steak / fish with pasta, salad, coffee and TWO beers came to less. I kid you not. Oh, I had a pudding, too. I would say give this place a whirl for tea & a bun but be VERY cautious if considering a 'meal'. Charitable, charming, stylish, good service and community-minded. Brilliant. It should just give-up on making food. P'raps it would make a nice trendy laundry. Try Troodos Greek Taverna at the end of Priory Rd. May lack interior design theme but all dishes (and puddings) are home made and you can have a blow-out for a score. Veggie friendly. Quality!

Despite having lived practically next door for the past year, i've only recently visited this lovely eatery. I've definitely been missing out. Charm, style, good food, excellent service and a real commitment in supporting various charities and the local community have made The Haberdashery my new favourite local.

As a Crouch End local, I have to say that this sweet and cosy cafe has been exactly what the neighbourhood needed I only discovered it recently as it's on a side street but am definitely going to make it a regular stop. The staff are always smiling and friendly, there is a real buzz everytime I have been, and the cakes, drinks and food are like a breath of fresh air - better than anything we have seen in a while. I'm a fan!!!

I want to like this place but after several visits I've concluded that I don't! The things that really bother me are: 1. everytime I've been I've been presented with chipped crockery 2. Glasses etc aren't well washed 3. The staff/owners are a quite arrogant 4. The silver cutlery is annoying - it affects the taste of the food - especially the breakfasts with eggs 5. Better coffee needed - the place needs to raise its game 5. The food is tasty but with Gail's Artisan Bakery opening this place will have to watch out as the food and coffees there are much better and the location is much nicer!