Cafe Zee. Reviews Summary

Coffee Quality

Pros:

• "Superb coffee shop selling brownies, pastries, sandwiches, coffee beans, coffee making equipment and of course coffee."
• "The tea and coffee is good, they have a good range of filling lunches and cakes and the prices are very reasonable."
• "Lovely little independent coffee roaster. Delicious coffee to buy on site or take away beans."
• "Professionally made freshly roasted and ground delicious coffee!"
• "Best coffee house in London, a whole plethora of coffee beans freshly roasted within house."
• "These guys know coffee! The best place in Ealing to have a homemade cakes (wow!!!), fresh salads or sandwiches."
• "Love this place. Friendly staff and excellent coffee."

Cons:

• "The coffee tasted regular."
• "Both seemed pretty dry, like they had been left out from the day before."
• "Brownie was yummy but coffee taste wasn't that good, it was a bit warm when I have it."
• "The coffee was also average."
• "The coffee was steamed super hot, bubbly and lacked flavour."
• "Coffee wasn't hot, ordered scrambled egg on sourdough, eggs very dry, bread tasted old."
• "Horrible attitude!! Very rude staff!! Poorly done coffee 🤢"

Food Quality

Pros:

• "The cakes and treats are great and sometimes bizarre - apricot doughnut/muffin for example."
• "Visited recently for breakfast and had the most amazing full English breakfast!"
• "Great size portions and flavours matching the price."
• "The food and drinks itself is what makes this coffee shop stand out."
• "Had a Apple and camomile tea and mixed berry cake here, both were very good."
• "Fantastic food. Way above my expectations."
• "Absolutely my favourite café / eatery in Ealing Broadway. Friendly staff, very good range of healthier food and plenty of the naughty stuff too."

Cons:

• "Awful food, really dry and hard old banana loaf."
• "The food came in 2mins shows that they didn't even take their time to cook anything no salt no pepper on the side just plain dull food."
• "English breakfast which was 🤮."
• "The big breakfast costed us £11 each but it was merely an 'average size' breakfast and the tomato that came with the meal tasted gross."
• "Both seemed pretty dry, like they had been left out from the day before."
• "Worse avocado toast i ever had in London."
• "The food was cold, potatoes we're bland and bread was tough."

Service

Pros:

• "The staff are respond quickly to any queries and request."
• "The staff are friendly and accommodating."
• "Staff were super friendly and happy to cater to whatever requests you could have."
• "Service was fast and friendly."
• "The staff are generally quite helpful, and the service is prompt."
• "The staff were very friendly and welcoming."
• "Service was friendly."

Cons:

• "None of the staff were particularly helpful or friendly."
• "Rude service from the tall blonde ladie and poor communication skills when the orders are taken."
• "Service is terse, food is meh for the price."
• "Slow service. Tables not cleared. Only one type of bread. They can't make sandwiches to order."
• "Customer service was awful like the staff members are rude and not well experienced with customers."
• "Flat customer service, the guy didn't bother to reply to our greetings."
• "Extremely rude stuff, not professional, very hectic atmosphere."

Atmosphere

Pros:

• "I love the lighting and the cozy atmosphere inside."
• "With a fantastic industrial homely feel, it brings flavour to classic Cafe style."
• "Very cosy atmosphere and even sometimes a singing staff!"
• "The atmosphere is nice especially when I sit downstairs next to the book shelf."
• "It’s lovely and cosy down there."
• "The vibes are relaxing and chilled and the staff don’t rush the customers which is great."
• "Really nice, laid back atmosphere."

Cons:

• "This place is definitely not baby friendly."
• "The place was nice to look at which is why we wanted to go in, but staff were rude, food was lukewarm, tea strainer extremely dirty."
• "The music is not for everyone, as for the cafe itself there's an effort for decoration, but it's very superficial."
• "They do have a strict policy of no food from outside especially Pret (sorry pret) apparently its their rivals."
• "The WiFi is not great if you are looking to work remotely. No plugs to charge."
• "But they have a moody team leader the short guy."
• "An expensive and horrible cafe. They tried too hard to be fancy with their breakfast."

Price

Pros:

• "Despite this, prices were fair and not above the odds for the quality of food you were met with."
• "The tea and coffee is good, they have a good range of filling lunches and cakes and the prices are very reasonable."
• "£3 for a generous slice of chocolate ricotta cake, you cant go wrong with that!"
• "Priced accordingly for location - we spent £14 on two hot drinks and three large pastries."
• "Fair prices and very good bakeries!"
• "Great size portions and flavours matching the price."
• "Best coffee house in London... Master chief quality in Ealing high street at reasonable prices."

Cons:

• "Very overpriced. I got a burrito for £8... The rice was undercooked, there were about 3/4 beans in the wrap, no salad, just a splodge of guacamole."
• "I think the prices are just the wrong side of the pisstaking line."
• "Highly overpriced. I am guessing the guys are charging for being located on Ealing broadway."
• "Expensive price for a very small portion. 'Big breakfast' is a joke & it should be called baby snack."
• "Very overpriced... Put me off the place completely!"
• "It's quite overpriced."
• "Terrible experience with the coffee charging 4£ for coffee with syrup and only putting one shot of espresso."