La F.
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I wouldn't be normally concerned after just another bad croissant and coffee, but given the price I paid, I thought worth spending the time to at least make my impression public: Pretentious and overpriced. Such a depressing soul-less place. The worst almond croissant I have tried in a London Cafe, comparable to a reduced 1 day old supermarket croissant. It was huge, stale, tasteless, really horrible. The cinnamon bun, also tough, airless, like a block of stale bread. That, together with two flat whites, £15. What a rip off, if at least the atmosphere would make it up. The place splits in two, either you can sit and drink your coffee in a really noisy -with loud annoying music - with a take away cup or you can drink your coffee in a mug at the front, where the counter and attendant. The front place, instead, was dead quiet, no problem with whispering, so we sat at the only table available, right in front of entrance door. My coffee got completely cold within 1-2 times of opening that door. Also, the Hale intricate design, would bring about loud and chill swathes of artic gales yesterday. The experience was just so mean. She gave us the food without tissues, and there weren't any of them at the coffee station either; as expected, she was chatting up with someone behind the counter, completely unaware of her surrounding. The room felt like a waiting room at a clinic without secretary.... Customers seemed eloys out of a Time Machine book, smiling and mumbling while nicely getting ripped off. What a pretentious dystopia.