Coffee Plant

Having lived not far from Portobello Road for years I have been to this place a few times. The atmosphere is very cool and chilled the coffee is pretty good quite a quirky place but quite friendly and relaxed — medium latte £2.60

How strange, I decided to write my original review in German — probably because my fellow country men and women have always had a soft spot for good coffee. Worth repeating here in English, this is by far the best coffee shop on Portobello Road. Period.
Coffee Plant consistently delivers and wins hands down against the growing competition from chains moving into Portobello Road. I can remember the original market stall where coffee was roasted in the street, the roastery then moved indoors and has since moved off-​site. I miss the smell of freshly roasted beans, but luckily they haven’t stopped selling a large selection of blends.
A favourite with locals and caffeine addicted tourists alike, queues sometimes reach the door but staff here know what they are doing and you never have to wait for too long. No annoying personalisation of cups or ridiculous sizing here. Better still, all coffee sold here is both organic and fairtrade — as all coffee should be.
There’s plenty of seating in the back of the store, but the three tables outside are the best — nothing better than seeing the world go by while sipping a coffee. Beats Notting Hill, the movie!

Sorry, but I’m not impressed.
The place is cute enough in that Bohemian Portobello Road way, but a bit chaotic and disheveled for my taste. The Wifi is free, but the coffee wasn’t great and the employees were brusque.
I was a little suspicious when I saw the glistening beans in the hopper of the Mazzer, but the flat whites were priced right at £2.20 for a double shot, so we gave them a shot. Not terrible, but far from my favorite, with a distinct bitter note displacing the richness I was hoping for.
There’s also a huge variety of coffee beans available behind a second counter and along the back wall, from all sorts of places. Normally this would excite me, but even their «medium» roasts looked pretty dark to me, which makes it hard to taste the real flavor of the beans.
All of this would add up to about 3 stars for me, but I’m deducting one more for the ⁹⁄₁₁ truther BS posted prominently on the wall. Grow up.

Je suis passée devant en me baladant dans les rues de Notting Hill, à travers le marché… et j’ai vu le «On nous aime sur Unilocal» alors je n’ai pas pu m’en empêcher «il faut qu’on aille tester ce café! «
Et ça a été chose faite… par une belle journée ensoleillée, et de longues heures de marche, une pause café s’impose ! Fin d’après midi, on entre et déjà la bonne odeur du café me fait languir. Il y a le choix: expresso, macchiato, latte, cappuccino, chocolat chaud… J’opte pour un latte macchiato, ma cousine chez qui je suis en visite prend un cappuccino, et un gros muffin choco pour ma petite nièce d’amour ! :D
Les gens sont hyper sympas, relax, on va s’assoir et on prend le temps de déguster notre boisson… Et c’est franchement hyper bon !! J’ai l’habitude de tester ce genre de boissons et là et il y avait vraiment un bon goût !!
Un très agréable moment dans ce café au top !! Ils vendent même du café en grains, qui doit être de très bonne qualité si l’on en croit déjà le goût de leurs boissons et les délicieuses odeurs qui s’échappent des machines a café…

Despite the quaint hippy-​chic sentiment that is so obvious all over the walls of this rather average coffee shop, it’s impossible to recommend any place that plasters creepy, obnoxious politics on its walls. Anti-9−11 propaganda might be amusing in the dark recess of some neurotic losers basement while he scarfs down his mothers Oreos, but to the adult world it is pathetic and worse disgusting. If I had known I would have taken my pounds anywhere else. Find a less offensive spot. It won’t be hard.