Canada Water Cafe

Great little café in a quiet neighborhood.
Enjoyed coffee here with a friend last Saturday night and it was quite full at 9pm. There was a nice mix of family groups as well as friends and couples.

Canada Water Café has a bit of a monopoly on the local area as there really isn’t very much competition. Being the land of commuters this residential area doesn’t have that many places to go for food, however even with that they are pretty good at what they do.
In warm weather they have outside space, which although next to a road, is next to a very quiet road, and whilst it can get busy when it’s colder, and at busy times, as they don’t have a lot of internal tables, it’s worth the wait for one.
The décor is also great, I find it rather retro and 70’s in feel — hipster central — with a lot of fun shapes and colours, creating a mismatched but comfy vibe. Keep an eye out for the details — I personally love the space age lights.
I’ve been here for nibbles and drinks, coffee, brunch, lunch and dinner and I can safely say that I’ve enjoyed these all.
They have some lovely craft beers, the mulled wine at Christmas was particularly fantastic and the food has always been tasty. Coffee is also pretty good, and you can grab yourself a cake /​pastry too — although I haven’t tried these.
They do pretty good pizza’s and the full English breakfast, whilst a far cry from the builders fry-​up with its grilled vine tomatoes and sourdough bread, is a lovely way to start the morning.
I’d definitely recommend as not only being the best in area (to my knowledge), but also very, very good and consistent in being great quality and thoroughly tasty.
The only reservation I have about this place is price, it’s reasonable, but on the upper side of that and it can be quite easy as the portion sizes aren’t that big to get quite carried away.

Nice café with great outdoor seating (if the wearher’s good). Had scramble with salmon and my friend had Benedict both delicious options.

En plein coeur du quartier périphérique de Rotherhithe, à la sortie de la station métro Canada Water, ce café est idéal pour profiter d’un breakfast à l’anglaise !
La salle est spacieuse, la déco est travaillée et colorée, les serveurs sont attentifs (d’ailleurs un sur deux parle français, ça en est presque agaçant ;-)
A la carte, différentes assiettes breakfast à base d’oeufs (pochés ou brouillés), de bacon, de champignons, de tomates et de toasts, mais aussi (pour les réfractaires) diverses boissons chaudes caféinées, des smoothies, des viennoiseries et autres yaourts au muesli.
C’est bon, c’est frais, c’est parfait pour recharger les batteries avant une nouvelle journée d’exploration londonienne !

I was excited to see another café open in my neighbourhood. I have only been there for breakfast (so can’t comment on lunch or dinner). I love the look and feel of the place and the food and coffee were really good. However, the place didn’t blow me away, and it will most likely not replace the café at Surrey Docks farm as my favourite breakfast place in the area.
However, I love that it opens early on a Sunday, so will be back once in a while for breakfast and will definitely need to check it out for dinner some time. Definitely a good new addition to the neighbourhood.

This place reminds me of the numerous small and simple cafes I used to go to in France for a small set lunch without breaking the bank. Funny that, most of the waiters at the Canada Water Café are actually French.
Perfect for breakfast or lunch, their lunch menu changes every day and offers one dish of pasta, one main meal and a few different pizzas. Having sadly only tasted the mains (I really wanted a pizza, but I was being good), the food was good — although not amazing (their salad dressing is a bit bland, and very oily) — but overall a good value.
The staff is friendly, the atmosphere is great. Really — all you could wish for for a quick break in Canada Water.

Lovely café full of energy and sleepy eyes ;) very good brunch menu, typical to the youngs (20 – 50’s) lol. Nice place to catch up with friends! Food are normal, it’s just a café, what else can you expect? But really not a bad place to be.

So grateful for this cute little café/​pizzeria for opening in Canada Water, the area is crying out for bars, restaurants etc. Really nice café, the varieties of teas is awesome — could perhaps have a lunch offer and a few more cakes but as far as breakfast goes this place has it nailed oh although don’t serve french toast which is a shame! It doesn’t have a lunch menu which I find really odd considering they serve a variety of breakfast options and even pizzas in the evenings. But great place to go for tea/​coffee or a smoothie etc. Gets quite busy at the weekends as its not a big place. Located right by the station and next to a great yoga/​exercise studio too! The real bonus (apart from it being the only café in the area!) is that it turns into a pizzeria in the evenings and even does take away. Not too sure about the staff they can get a bit shirty and aren’t very helpful. But overall nice little independent café to grab a tea and meet a mate.

Brought my boyfriend there for his bday and had a lovely full English breakfast. Will definitely be going back. They’re poached and scrambled eggs were very good. And the atmosphere is so nice as well as the staff. Lovely place for breakfast/​brunch. But I do think tea/​coffee should be included in the breakfast price.

Nous etions dans le coin de Canada Water pour un tour shopping sportif chez Decathlon, et nous n’avions pas prevu de manger dans le coin. Mais la faim pointant le bout de son nez, nous avons cherche un endroit ou nous poser!
Pas envie d’un burger, pas envie de s’enfermer dans le centre commercial!
Le choix pres de la station de canada water n’est pas enorme, et nous sommes entres dans ce café sans trop savoir a quoi s’attendre!
Midi, seule la carte breakfast est disponible, mais super surprise en terme de choix. Du plus complet english breakfast au sandwich avocat bacon, en passant par les oeufs benedictes, vous trouverz votre bonheur.
J’ai personnellement pris les oeufs benedictes version royale (avec saumon fume) et ce fut un regal. Le tout accompagne d’un smoothie breakfast bien complet (muesli, baies, etc), j’ai tenu jusqu’au repas du soir sans aucun souci!
La decoration est franchement tres cool, un mélange de vintage, de 70s, matieres et textures se melangent, et ca fonctionne tres bien! Le sol en marbre est suprenant, mais repond parfaitement aux eclairages!
Les prix sont un petit peu eleves, mais pour la qualite, on va dire que ca le fait.
Oeufs benedictes avec saumon: 9£
Smoothie breakfast: 3.50£
Je n’irai pas expres dans ce coin pour y manger, mais de passage, je m’y arreterai, c’est certain, si ce n’est que pour attraper une chouette part de gâteau :)

Great café! Especially when you have a hungry baby. Staff are extremely welcoming and polite. Excellent facilities, great location as it is close to the library

They have created a great little café, with a really nice atmosphere. There’s been a lot of attention to detail, and has an atmosphere of real care for the customers. It’s actually a very small space, and they have done very well to use this small space as best they can.
Because it’s so busy, the staff have to work very hard. When it first opened, like another reviewer said, I found the staff to be actually quite rude and inconsiderate. You could stand there for a long time and no one will even acknowledge you, it was really quite bizarre, almost as if the staff didn’t realise it was their job to serve customers. But that seems to have improved hugely recently, there are some very nice people in there serving now.
Where it starts to go wrong, is no fault of the owners or the staff. It’s just too busy. Because there is pretty well nothing else to do, or nowhere else to go in the area, it means that by default anything opened in the area will succeed. There is an enormous demand for facilities in Canada Water, because thoughtless, and commercially driven urban planning has not allowed enough space for stores, coffee shops, or anything else to improve the quality of life in the area.
So there’s a huge opportunity for anyone opening a business here. And the new Canada Water café is doing absolutely fantastic business very quickly as a result. But basically don’t even try to go there on a Saturday lunchtime or during the weekend. It’s just too busy.
A few minor points for correction: the coffee cups are FAR TOO SMALL. There is no way that paying that kind of money for coffee you should be so shortchanged on what you receive. It is certainly a little on the expensive side too.
But generally, it’s a lovely place to go when it’s quieter. And there’s some nice touches like the superb Kernel beer, great choice!

Great English breakfast and delicious pizza (also available to take away). All reasonably priced. Pleasant interior. Friendly service. Just a stone’s throw away from Canada Water tube station.

Excellent coffee but a bit on the expensive side. The place does look good although it can get really crammed at times.

During our trip we stayed about 1 minute away from Canada Water Café and constantly passed by and it always smelled amazing! We finally went in one day and the food was just as amazing as the smell. The café is cute and the employees were so kind. I wish we would’ve went in more than we did because it beat a lot of the other breakfast places we tried.

The staff must have had training since the last reviews as we received great service despite having five tired children in tow. The cakes were great, very home made and much better than the ones earlier in the day at the V&A museum. Will be going back (without children) to try their evening menu.

Excellent coffee, great service, superb location, timely precedent, adorable décor and good choice of food and confectionaries. Canada Water Café has wowed all the locals of the area, like me. Hugely recommended (especially because there’s so little in the area).

When this place opened I was very excited because it would be a great addition for this area. However, after coming here for a few times, I have to say I am quite disappointed at their service. When I entered the café I was not welcome properly, the waitress did not even look at me when I entered. I stood behind the counter for a while before she raised her head from the cashier, and she didn’t even give a smile… when she handed me the coffee it was too full that it almost spilled out, and she just head-​pointed to the cup covers indicating I could go get it by myself.
Seriously, by this level of decorations and price, I expected better services than this. This is not even a basic level for a café. Really hope the service can get better.

Reasonably priced. Great coffee. Breakfast and brunch is quality

The café caught my attention when it opened — it’s not really a common sight for the area !
I finally went to check it out a sunny but windy Sunday for a coffee and a bite. The place looks lovely, more like something you’d expect to see in Shoreditch: fancy ceiling, David Mellor cutlery, laser-​etched table number cubes, herb pots on the tables,…
However I was very disappointed with the service. Upon entering it seemed like people are getting seating by staff, so I was given a table; but then everything felt a bit disorganized. Despite the 3 waitresses, it was hard to get anyone’s attention to order or to pay.
My coffee arrived and before I even had to time to ask for sugar and a spoon, the waitress had gone… In the end I gave up asking for it.
I ordered poached eggs on toast, which arrived a bit cold and way after the people who arrived after me got served the same thing :’(. Again struggled a bit to get some salt on the table…
So yeah, like Alan, I hope the disappointment that first time was due to the newness of the café. We’ll see if things get better, and if it becomes my new local café.
Edit: However I’d give this place a second chance, so by all means guys try it out =)) Things might have been hectic, but doesn’t mean it hasn’t improved since.

I was excited that Canada Water was going to have somewhere new to relax with a coffee and possibly something to eat, somewhere new to help break up the lego land style buildings nearby. I walked past the café every morning on the way to work, looking most days to see how it was progressing.
Last weekend I spotted a sign saying the café was open late serving pizza so a few days later I went to check out the café.
Unfortunately I left just after an hour later feeling gutted and very disappointed.
So Canada Water café does some things quite well, it is decorated to a high standard and it has a good bottled beer selection and is very well located for Canada Water station and library.
On a less positive note the service was at best average with people being served out of turn and people not being welcomed properly when entering the café. Whilst the café is decorated to a high standard the tables are so squashed together it feels uncomfortable. The pizza was admittedly nice but not amazing with the takeaway nearby in Albino Street selling equally nice if not slightly better pizzas. My partner ordered the calzone which I thought looked good but I was told afterwards tasted bland.
I really hope the disappointing visit was down to the newness of the café as it has such good potential given its location and start interior.

When I saw the hoardings in the summer saying that a café would be coming to Canada Water, I was excited, but very curious to see what kind of place would evolve inside the wooden chrysalis.
The result is unbelievably good. The owners have really invested in building a very attractive and high-​end café. It really raises the tone of an area which has only a few options for a coffees and brunches.
I had a delightul scrambled eggs with saussages, but I can’t wait to try their full lunches.