Nagare Bankside
Cafe · Bankside
Unit A, Eastern Building, 2 Triptych Pl, London SE1 9RD, United Kingdom
Highlights
Japanese bakery cafe with specialty coffee, matcha & unique buns
Japanese bakery cafe with specialty coffee, matcha & unique buns
"Nagare Bankside makes most other coffee shops look like amateurs having a mess around with a French press. Coffee-lovers pull up chairs at the siphon bar, watching in awe like it’s Mark Rylance doing a bit of Shakespeare, but the Japanese-inspired bakery counter shouldn't be ignored. The bagels (chewy, with a thinner and less crispy crust than an NYC-style bagel) served with a pot of velvety, wakatake matcha cream cheese are the best thing here." - sinead cranna, heidi lauth beasley
"For: Japanese-inspired bagels and egg salad rolls Nagare Bankside makes most other coffee shops look like amateurs having a mess around with a French press. Excellent coffee and achingly chic interiors aside, there’s a Japanese-inspired bakery counter that deserves your attention. The best things are the buttery egg salad and nori stuffed into a sweet, cake-like roll, and the chewy matcha bagel. You get a choice of spreads and the wakatake matcha and truffle honey butter are best." - rianne shlebak, sinead cranna, daisy meager, heidi lauth beasley
"Nagare Bankside makes most other coffee shops look like amateurs having a mess around with a French press. Coffee-lovers pull up chairs at the siphon bar, earnestly watching the skillful baristas work as if they’re witnessing Mark Rylance doing a bit of Shakespeare. Dried flowers and envelopes embossed like love letters are sold as merch, earth-toned aprons hang just-so on brass pegs, and dark wood tables with sprigs of flowers are kept laptop-free for achingly chic catch-ups and contemplative coffee-sipping. This is what reaching peak coffee shop looks like. Unlike its sister spots in Spitalfields and Soho, this Nagare location has a Japanese-inspired bakery counter, which is excellent and shouldn't be ignored. photo credit: Aleksandra Boruch photo credit: Aleksandra Boruch video credit: Sinéad Cranna video credit: Sinéad Cranna photo credit: Aleksandra Boruch Pause Unmute Food Rundown Egg Salad, Nori, Sea Salt Butter Roll Egg salad isn’t the sexiest sandwich filling. It just isn’t. But at Nagare it gets a reputation reset, feeling particularly decadent stuffed inside a sweet, almost cake-like buttery roll. PlayMute video credit: Sinéad Cranna Matcha Bagel With Wakatake Matcha And Truffle Honey Butter A satisfyingly chewy bagel—know that the crust is thinner and less crisp than a NYC-style bagel—with earthy matcha notes that don’t overpower. There’s a choice of spreads and we like the contrast of truffle honey butter best. photo credit: Aleksandra Boruch L’Ambre Cream Bun We recommend this l’ambre earl grey-infused cream bun to anyone who wants dessert but doesn’t have much of a sweet tooth. The tea does a good job of tempering the sweetness and the bun itself is soft and springy. photo credit: Aleksandra Boruch Pearl 40 Bagel Before you start wondering who Pearl is and how you can congratulate her on turning 40, let us explain. Nagare has a signature ‘Pearl 40’ drink and the same flavours—jasmine pearl tea, vanilla—are used in this substantial bagel along with mochi. It’s a pleasant, fragrant mouthful. But we find the glutinous mochi makes this too heavy. We prefer the non-filled, flavoured bagels. photo credit: Sinéad Cranna" - Sinéad Cranna
"Nagare is one of the best places to get coffee in London. So it’s welcome news that their latest Bankside location is the biggest to date, with an Asian-inspired bakery and a pour-over bar for siphon coffee. On the menu are bakes like mentaiko mochi butter rolls, bonito butter bagels, and matcha cream-filled buns." - team infatuation
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