Homa

I've only had the breakfast (3 times), but it was genuinely one of the best eggs benedict / royale that I have ever had. The service was good if a little stuck up. The clientele are a little more pretentious than I had hoped, and I had to zone out from listening to various Northern people who were trying to cover their native accent (be proud!) but the food was excellent. Worth a visit

Quite an odd dining experience. Despite running through the menu with what seemed like the head waiter I settled on a brunch option that worked with the dietary restraints imposed by pregnancy, I was then brought the wrong food which I couldn't eat and so my friend had to eat on her own. When my food came again, it was still the wrong food and so the 3rd attempt came half an hour later than my friend's and wasnt of a very high standard. When we paid we decided to not pay the service as no offer was made to refund us for one of our dishes. The brunch ended with the waiter flamboyantly coming over and handing us our change and saying that the £10 note was to make up for the errors with the meal, which made us chuckle as he was effectively giving us a pound off. In summary - poor food, service and the pricing seemed out of kilter with what we ate.

Food is excellent. What a shame that the serving staff and some of the diners are so snooty and miserable. What a shame that people who think they are something special spoil such wonderful cooking.

Firstly, I strongly feel that this is not what Stoke Newington needs at all. Plus points are the outdoor seating on Church Street and the desert menu- particularly the sea salt caramel and chocolate torte. We sat down to a dinner with our first waiter, who was beyond rude in telling us that we coudln't order from the menu until 18:00, which was absolutely fine with me as I could clearly read the menu and didn't need to be told this multiple times. We then ordered the Conft of Lamb (which is actually two lamb chops per person and NOT confit of Lamb) which, had it actually have been Confit of lamb, would have been quite worth the price as it was very tastly......for lamb chops. Sadly, it was still lamb chops. And only two of those bad boys each, which was quite cheeky for the price without any side orders. Overall, I wouldn't go back at all. There are far less pretentious places to eat on Church Street with much more polite waiting staff. Try Punjab 58- fantastic!

Never again. Popped in here for cake and coffee with a friend. Got seated in a corner, which would have been fine, but were then ignored for 20 minutes. When we asked the waiter if he could take our order he couldn't have been more sulky about it. We had to repeat what we wanted about three times - he seemed too bored to take note. Cake and coffee never showed. So we left. Have eaten here once or twice before, food overpriced, decor a bit All Bar One, but rude staff is surely the last straw. It seemed like they actively wanted to make us feel unwelcome.

The portions could be bigger. Lasagne came in a really small and shallow dish and cost £9.00. Pizza was tasty but had a very thin base so we left a bit hungry. In general the quality of the food was good but they def need to up their game in terms of portion size. It feels like a bit of an insult otherwise.

I love this place, it's really what Church Street needed. I've been here a number of times and the food has always been top notch - the service is efficient, non invasive and friendly and the décor/atmosphere is lovely . It really makes it hard to leave N16 for dinner with Homa down the road..

Tried Homa for the first time last Friday evening after having eyed it for weeks but unable to get a table walking in off the street without booking. So we booked (2 hours before ETA) but when we arrived they had no record of our booking. Luckily, there was a spare (tiny) table available. The space is lovely, airy and bright with a great buzzy atmosphere. Unfortunately the food did not live up to our expectations..The seared scallops with saffron salad was hardly seared and rather flavourless (except for the seafood/fishy aroma - which probably means they weren't that fresh). The pasta (like egg noodle pasta) with crab and cherry tomatoes was tasty but the pasta overdone (the texture was like packet 2 min noodles that had been cooked for 5 mins) so it felt a bit of a task eating a whole plateful. My partner had a pizza which was OK but nothing to write home about. Had a bottle of organic red, cocktails and coffees and would have thought the price was reasonable (if the food had been good that is). Perhaps we just ordered badly - the menu changes daily apparently. I really wanted to love this place as it's local and looks great, but I came away very disappointed. Might come back to try the brunch as they sound fab!

I always come to homa with my family its the best place i'v been to in London, the staff give us a warm welcome chefs make the food with passion i always get excited when i'm having my meal in homa and the menu is amazing too.. thank you to the owner for bringing such an amazing place into church street will definatly be back there again!

Homa is wonderful - there are lots of cafes and restaurants in Stokey but none come close to it for loveliness. It's beautiful inside and the food is absolutely amazing - their french toast with hazelnuts and apple is my favourite treat. It's great for coffees etc during the day - there are often people working away on macs - and a properly glamorous dinner venue in the evenings. Despite saying that by venturing into Hackney he thought he might get stabbed, even Giles Coren gave it a big thumbs up!