Let Them Eat

This place is fabulous especially if you’ve got a couple of veggie or vegan mates. Grab a couple of salads and falafel and you’re set. The helpings are extremely generous and I’ve frequently taken a doggie bag for later.

I love Let Them Eat. It’s great if your not sure what to make for dinner because you can quickly pick something up, reheat it and serve with a little salad and you have a great little dinner. I like having the chickpea burgers with roti and salad and chutney at home and it’s takes ten minutes to whip together. The cakes that they make are really nice too. Especially the ones they make with chocolate. The coffee is also the best on the street with beans coming from the Coffee Barun and milk from tweedvale, all prepared by some very friendly and passionate baristas. Give it a try next time your in Croydon.

Cool and fashionable locations does not mean you allowed to take FOREVER to make a bloody salad.
WORST experience EVER.
Just because you make great food doesn’t mean you should work in hospitality.
ignoring your customers to fill your display cabinets and then taking (literally) 27 mins to give me a takeaway prepacked salad is ridiculous and shouldn’t happen.
Then once you get the salad it’s the tiniest thing you have ever seen.
No offense but I would prefer the staff take off their funky lego jewellery and learn how to look after their customers.
Don’t go here if you want to eat in a hurry or EVER there are plenty of better places in this area like Red Door Bakery and What a Treat Café.

Let Them Eat… Gourmet is one of the fashionable little Croydon Cafes along Elizabeth (mostly referred to as Queen St).
It does a range of organic vegetarian food, and began as a wholesale vegetarian catering company, then opened its shop in 2009.
One thing I love about this shop is that it’s interior is ever changing. They have new exhibitions or decorations every month or two, and put a lot of thought into the styling of the shop.
Normally I come here in the early afternoon on a quiet week day, and the service then is fine. However on the busier times, Friday through to Sunday, it gets a little mad and the waits can be very long, as there is mostly only two staff at the counter. I waited for 20 minutes for a coffee today, at about 1pm on a Friday. One suggestion that I’ve seen work well in hospitality — notice which customers are alone, and waiting for something small, and get it to them quick. Those having lunch in a group are happy to wait a little longer, whereas if you’re just there to have a coffee, you get cranky. Especially WITHOUT said caffeine hit.
I do have to recommend the double choc brownie with raspberry centre. They warm it up for you and put cream on the side… ohhh, gooey hot chocolate raspberry heaven.
Their salads are fresh and healthy, and their risotto cakes are particularly yummy. They’re not overly cheap, but it the food is very good quality.
The coffee is strong but not bitter, nice and smooth. Their chai tea is also a great blend, and they put raw honey on the side.