Cafe TOAST

Café Toast is a lovely café with good food, service, and a nice atmosphere. It is the type of place I could easily spend hours in and not realize where the time went.

Fairly decent lattes and pastries here. They have a cool upstairs and downstairs that feels like a living room. Some outdoor seating too. Free wi-​fi.
One of the best things about this place… the state of the art bathroom. Check out the warmed toilet seat with bidet! LED lights on the tap that shift from magenta (hot) to blue (cold) when you wash your hands. A totally unexpected bonus in this cute place!
It’s definitely my favorite café in Maida Vale.

Just moved to Maida Vale and was feeling lazy on Sunday — wanted to grab a quick bite for take away for lunch. Decided to walk over to Toast to pick something up for my husband and myself.
I was surprised to find what an awesome little place this is. They had a great selection of panini and sandwiches (got my husband a ham & cheese panini) — and fresh sushi and bento boxes (i got salmon sushi). Couldn’t resist the baked goods, so also got a cookie :) Everything is quality, fresh and prices are good too.
I already know this place is going to be a favorite local stop. They also sell fresh baked bread, which I’ll try next week.

I was staying over at a friend’s place in Maida Vale over the weekend, and we had all sorts of things planned — mainly ending up with us enjoying a cup of coffee & brunch somewhere on Saturday morning around Warwick Ave /​Notting Hill area. Given the unexpected heavy snowfall, most of our plans went down the drain but we maintained that enjoying a decent cuppa coffee must be achieved, if not anything else this weekend!
So off we went, with my light coat over every other think layer of clothing I’d bought with me for the sleepover. We slowly traversed the thick snow-​covered streets to the extent that we couldn’t differentiate where the pavement ended and the road began (we got car-​honked several times to get off the road)!
By the time we got to Toast, I was covered from beanie-​less head to toe with snow and felt like a sorry little ice-​encased elf (for I’m vertically challenged by default), but as soon as stepped inside, after having stomped around outside for a good 5 minutes trying to get as much of the snow off us as possible, it was warm and inviting and the buttery fragrance of French patisserie and artisanal breads filled my nostrils and immediately triggered my dormant hunger.
So we immediately eyed some comfy lounge seating downstairs and proceeded to ordering our pastries and coffees. The place is deceptively spacious, with upstairs seating and downstairs lounge + coffee tables. The interior decoration is chic; with clean lines and a sleek feature wall downstairs lined with glass shelves and bottles of VOSS water.
We wiled the time away flicking through a very beautiful hardcover volume of Vanity Fair’s decade-​worth collection of photographs and enjoying our ham & cheese croissants and pecan & caramel muffin (omg, it was delicious and beyond the coveted crunchy and flavoursome muffin top — I was surprised to find that the rest of the muffin isn’t your typical boring filling-​less flavoured sweet nothings, but was generously filled with little squares of divine caramel melts and crunchy bite-​sized pecan)!
This place is such a gem! Almost tempted not to share reviews lest it becomes overly popular and ruined forever! FYI, it also has fresh sushi and baguettes as well as dish of the day offerings — certainly a perfect place for a lazy weekend snowed-​in chillout joint.