North London Crouch End Haberdashery Cafe

22 Middle Lane, Crouch End, London N8 8PL http://www.the-haberdashery.com/Home.html. No nearest tube. This cafe is in the wilds of North London with no tube but the nearest train station is Crouch Hill.

Okay so good start the outside is very twee but in a good way and welcoming. My friend had forgotten that we were meeting so I spent the first 3/4 of an hour on my own in this cafe and it was the sort of place you could happily spend hours just drinking tea and watching the world go past. The atmosphere is friendly and clearly a lot of the clientele are regulars.

I ordered tea and decided to wait til my friend arrived to order food. The tea was excellent both in quality and value -  £2.40 and 4 cups out of a pot.

So that was the good part. However once my friend arrived and we decided to order food things went down hill. There was a limited range of cake(to be fair it was 11.30 in the morning so perhaps the cafe hadn't got its full range out yet) and the three on offer didn't really jump out and shout EAT ME! The chocolate brownie at £4 was way over priced on the hand it was massive but too big for one.

The baked goods looked appealing but again there was not much choice and the muffins looked as if they had been there sometime.

In the end I went for a sausage sandwich. The sausages were excellent quality as was the roll but the portion was sooo mean. If you're going to have to cook 2 sausages don't then give your customer 1 1/2 it just looks mean especially when the customer is paying £4. Incidentally the next day I went to Sainsburys bought 6 Taste the Difference sausages for £2.79 and a roll from Lidl for 30p and made the best sausage sandwich ever!



My friend went for bagette and jam which she said was good but they'd toasted the bagette which she hadn't asked for. The coffee was excellent but she would have preferred it in a cup not a mug.

Overall I loved the atmosphere of this cafe so 5/5 for this. The beverages were excellent 4/5. I would definitely come back for a cup of tea but sadly the food was over priced and just ok.