Curious Yellow Kafé

A café just across the road from where I was staying on my brief visit. The staff were warm and friendly but not intrusive. The farmers breakfast was delightful! I have no idea how the make their baked beans but I am not sure I’ll ever eat Heinz in the same way again!
Would absolutely return here!

Cute and good little breakfast place. Decently priced for London as well.

The only ventilation is an open front door, which meant we were freezing and still came out smelling of fried eggs for hours. The English breakfast was the smallest I had ever seen and served with one slice of day-​before toasted bread. Your local greasy spoon is likely to do better. In an area dense with preferable alternatives avoid if you can.

Lovely little café. Unpretentious, very relaxing and the beetroot chocolate cake was delicious!

That was okay. Not the best place I had lunch, but still good for England.
I had the salmon croissant, and apparently in London this is what a croissant looks like. Allez au revoir.

This is one of my local coffee spots. It’s a great little café that has great coffee and customer service. A major plus is that dogs are welcome and even get a little doggy treat sometimes!

Came here for breakfast. I really enjoyed my cup of flat white. Coffee was super acidic and strong (which I like!) and loved the cranberry, banana cake which I had too! Definitely will be back when I am in London!

Tiny interesting little café. We tried their homemade sausage rolls (both meat and vegetarian) and it was really lovely! Food on offer seems mostly quite healthy. The only downside is that the place is quite small… but if i lived nearby I’d probably visit quite often!

So I’ve actually been to this many times before as it is my local! Each time the staff are really friendly, the food is delicious, the music playing is nice and easy to hold a conversation in.
It’s small inside but I’ve always been able to get a seat when I come and if it’s busy there is a quaint churchyard across te street so there is always take-​away.
They have a delicious full English and I think the best bacon in London. I haven’t yet tried the Scandinavian breakfast (weekends only) but I will if I ever get tired of the bacon bap! They have delicious looking cakes which they make on site.
And they make ice coffee the way it should be made (with crushed iced!) I can’t wait t they all know me by name but it’s only a matter of time because I get a bacon bap at least once a week!

It’s hard to find good coffee in London but this café has nailed it. I had a takeaway soy cappuccino & it was perfectly smooth.
I visited midweek & mid morning, there was a little wait but not too long.

Busy without being unpleasantly rammed of a sunny weekend. They know their way around an egg! Offerings of eggs florentine/​benedict/​scrambled/​poached with lovely fresh bread and muffins and great coffee and Swedish sweet treats for the breakfast pudding you didn’t know you wanted. I will be back!

Small, quaint Swedish influenced café on a quiet side street in Hoxton. On a nice sunny day, snag a table outside with the distinctive yellow checkered plastic table cover (which needs a food wipe). Service was lovely though. I had the farmer’s breakfast and asked for the sausage to be omitted — she immediately asked if I wanted more if another item. Chai tea was delicious and the portion was very generous. Would go back for sure!

I love this place because it’s consistent — always friendly service, interesting menu of hot foods, and they get the Scandinavian sense of coziness just right. The chocolate beetroot cake has been mentioned 1000x for good reason. It’s excellent and worth stopping in for alone, with delicious poppyseed frosting. The Scandinavian breakfast set is also delicious and quite light while being generous portion wise.
Best tables are the large ones in the bay windows. Mind that the place gets quite busy for weekend brunch, and that the kitchen closes during weekday afternoons (seems like sometime after 2). There are still lots of pastries and sandwiches for when that happens.

Yes, yet another review of the best care in London, but I promise, I’ve new info to bring to the table, if you just read on…
I found this place on Unilocal and had been meaning to go for ages. Now, it’s my guilty pleasure. I have fully incorporated it into my weekend ritual. Every Saturday, and in this case Sunday, I drag my drunk/​hungover arse out of bed and go to my morning yoga class. After I sweating out the alcohol I make my way Curious Yellow Kafe.
Before you arrive, accept the fact that you very well may need to sit outside. This place is cozy. Although it’s in Hoxton/​Shoreditch, it’s located on a relatively quiet street. When the weather’s nice, they leave the door open so you can still enjoy the tunes playing inside.
The problem I have with the café is a big one– the food is SO good that it takes everything in my power not to lick the plate clean. How dare they make Eggs Benedict that good! I mean really, who do they think they are?! I can’t control myself! I inhale them.
Which takes me to my next point, the quality of the food is incredible! I paid £7.50 for a smoked salmon salad, and there was at least £5 worth of smoked salmon on it. It’s worth trying things that may be out of your comfort zone because everything here is good — including the coffee.
Now for the best part: they’re opening a deli two doors down! It will be called Summer with Monika, opening in a couple weeks. Much bigger space and a larger seating area.
Moving from Dublin last year was hard, London is so big! But now, I’ve found my place. I recognise the faces inside, and I know I’ll always be taken care of here.
Love you, CYK x x x

Do you like your breakfast to be… brutal? Where better to go than a barbaric brutal Swedish breakfast café?
Anyway. I was pretty attached to Imadeitforyou (gypsy creams, woooord) which occupied where CYK is now, so it took me a long time to grieve and mourn and really feel ready to let go of what was and embrace what is. I’m glad to say CYK is a really good place, and I’m definitely going to be back in the future. The interior is much the same as IMIFY which brought back some tears and memories — fairly rustic cottage feel with a dinky kitchen area which somehow manages to see through a not insubstantial volume of food. Overall, it’s cosy and the outside seating is really nice during the summer. Additionally, they refrain from playing Abba in the café which is very kind of them. Ok, that’s the last Swedish dig I’m going to put in for now.
I’ve been a few times — the first time I was boring and went for the equivalent of a Full English. It’s a couple of quid more expensive than a greasy spoon, but pretty good, the beans in particular. I’ve also tried their full Swedish too which features gravlax, cheese, ham, pâté, rye bread… it’s really rather good and nice to have something a bit different. I’d love to go back to try their lunch menu — it seems to change reasonably frequently and consists of simple, good food. The coffee here is pretty decent, not spectacular but nice and they offer a decent selection of teas, craft beer, lemonade et al.
Overall, a relaxed, friendly place with simple, good food, nice staff, reasonable prices and somewhere I could spend a few hours in with a book and the sort of place I’d absolutely love to have as my local café.

Just a minor coffee update to Curious Yellow — an (apparently off-​menu?) flat white was just as good and slightly stronger-​flavored, in a good way, compared to the lattes. I can easily drink 2 or 3 coffees here without my palate being burnt out or crushing my wallet.

For the amazing chocolate & beetroot cake alone I give this place 5-​stars. It is THE best… yuuummmm…
I was visiting friends in London & looking for places to go for coffee & cakey eats and a few cool Unilocaly folk recommended this café (or Kafe). I am SO glad they did. Bonus also being none of my lovely London friends had been here either so it was a very pleasant surprise for them too (one of my friends actually works just around the corner from here so she was even more overjoyed to discover the place).
It was a beautiful hot, sunny day (remember them? *sigh*) when we arrived here & it was more out of the way than I had anticipated but we found it eventually, sadly upon arriving there were no tables outside free (one of my friends was heavily pregnant at the time & couldn’t bare the heat inside) so I thought the game was up but then luckily a party of people left so we quickly pounced on their table like an excitable kitten. Yas.
I liked the laid-​back feel to the place, the staff were all lovely & I liked the (mostly) IKEA retro-​feel cups & glassware. The toilet is also quite quaint ~ instead of regular handles they have used forks which I thought was a nice wee, quirky touch.
This place does Scandinavian inspired food & they had all their dishes written on a blackboard. A lot of the dishes here are veggie/​vegan but not all of them. My friends opted for some light bites (sandwich/​bagel and a veggie ‘sausage’ roll) whilst I went for the Scandinavian Breakfast (£7.50) which is served only at the weekends. It was really good ~ a big plate with gravlax, ham, pâté, cheese, crudités, pickles/​gherkins & also bread & butter. Super tasty. I knew I was going to get the (now infamous) chocolate & beetroot cake because well, just BECAUSE, so I thought the Scandi Brekkie wouldn’t actually be as large as it was (still, I ain’t complaining!) meaning I did have to wait a while between breakfast & cake but that just meant more time to relax, drink good coffee and enjoy the surroundings. When the clock struck I knew it was indeed cake o’clock; this was what I had been waiting for and I really hoped I wouldn’t be disappointed… HELL NO! The chocolate & beetroot cake with it delicious frosting was absolutely divine. I didn’t want that cake to end… so moist, so tasty, so YES! I was happy the whole time I was here at the CYK but upon leaving I got sad, realising that this was probably the last time I would savour that delicious cake for a good while yet… and so I sat & hoped that one day those lovely people at CYK would come to Glasgow & open up one of their cafes so I could have my regular fix of C&B cake. Uh. PLEASE! (Thank you)

Great little coffee shop and café in Hoxton! Generally, baked goods at coffee shops aren’t anything to write home about, but I dove right in to the chocolate beet and blood orange cakes they had here.
The service was friendly, and the coffee was good. What more can you ask for?
It was a simple, unfussy joint and looks like just the place to hibernate with a book on a rainy day sometime soon…

It was just as great as the previous umpteen times I come here. My stuffed peppers were delicious and that chocolate beetroot cake is to die for.
They do need to do something about that not locking bathroom door though. The wind makes it creak threateningly, moving slightly and you feel as if you are literally about to be caught with your pants down.

Curious Yellow Kafé (which for some reason I always read as Curious Yellow Kate and then think of a girl in a yellow dress inquisitively looking at a flower… but I digress) is a good place to eat.
It’s simple and small — a one room eatery with no more than five tables. The menu is written up on two boards on the wall and changes from time to time (but usually has the same basic items.) I’ve only been here for breakfast and for breakfast, it is nice.
Simple drinks, simple food. Last meal I got a croissant with eggs and salmon, all very basic but tasty. The staff is incredibly friendly if not a little slow (it took half an hour to get our meal last time, and this was a basic farmers breakfast and the croissant sandwich — and we were basically the only ones without food in the spot.)
Still, for an easy lunch with friends, or to sit alone and get some reading done (as I saw others do), this is a grand spot in Shoreditch.

I am truly and sincerely OBSESSED with the chocolate beetroot cake with poppyseed frosting. OMG. OMG OMG. Seriously. I don’t usually use all caps or «OMG» but it is warranted. Get yourself some of that cake, but make sure to leave one piece for me because I’m on a 1-​a-​day type régime right now…
Recap of past tips, in case they are helpful:
*A paper, Otis Redding, a hot Americano… perfect Sunday? Lovely little spot. The fresh blended lemonade is a favorite. Also: chocolate beetroot cake, divine.
*No laptops M-​F 12 – 2 and weekends 10 – 2. Otherwise free wifi!
*Scandinavian Breakfast is a fresh and flavorful delight. Outside tables available in good weather. Love this spot!
*Check-​in offer AFTERNOON: coffee/​tea + slice of cake for £3.70, great deal as the cake is usually £2.50 itself.

Si tienes la oportunidad de desayunar en este local no la desaproveches! Deliciosos desayunos típicamente británicos con unos magníficos cafés.
Gran variedad en croissants y puedes probar los huevos revueltos, benedictinos, etc