Signorelli East Village Reviews Summary

Staff and Service

Pros:

• "Klaidas & Miguel are helpful and always service with a smile :)"
• "Super friendly staff and you can sometimes catch the owners in there who also live within the community!"
• "The staff are so lovely and always have a chat whenever I go."
• "Ellie is amazing. She always greets me with a smile and makes me laugh."
• "Always greeted with a friendly face at the window."
• "The service is very friendly too - special shout out to Kristina and Karolina who make every visit enjoyable."
• "The staff here adds to the charm of the place with their friendliness."

Cons:

• "A female staff is so rude and abrasive."
• "Staff lacks simple manners required to ensure smooth customer journey."
• "Food was fine, but the staff are cold and rude, they act like you are wasting their time as soon as you start ordering."
• "Waited patiently outside in queue for 10 minutes only for the server to let someone inside buy the product I’d been waiting for, without any consideration for who was waiting first."
• "Poor service. I came just for a coffee with my friend. There was a lady who thinks she was funny but she was embarrassing and annoying."
• "The experience I had with one worker was abysmal."
• "Across 6 total experiences the staff have been so unfriendly and rude."

Coffee and Food Quality

Pros:

• "Love their stuff as they are from scratch bakers!"
• "It's got amazing food, coffee is good and the music they play is a total match so I don't even need earphones!"
• "Their bakery selection is nothing short of splendid."
• "Delicious fresh toasted focaccia ham cheese pickle, coffee excellent."
• "Undoubtedly my favourite bakery in London. Their sourdough is not only delicious and fresh but keeps for ages."
• "The coffee was good too - I had a flat white."
• "Their food is decent but not great and as such rather overpriced."

Cons:

• "Their espresso is not the best but nice."
• "However the double espresso quality is below average - bitter and burnt taste."
• "The food and coffee is pretty average."
• "Coffee is on the bitter/ashy side and rather blunt, especially in compared to the rest of the cafes in East Village."
• "Gross and overpriced. dry and stale almond croissant, after two bites of which my jaw hurt."
• "Red velvet cake was dry and runny-ish icing."
• "Cranberry & coconut loaf was just sweet - no flavour, couldn't taste cranberry or coconut!"

Ambiance and Location

Pros:

• "The location is great with the outdoor seating. There is free wifi in the area too. The bakery inside is beautiful."
• "Every day begins exceptionally with a visit to this wonderful coffee shop."
• "This is seriously the cosiest place in Stratford!"
• "It's such a lovely independent café in the East Village neighbourhood with fresh homemade pastries and bread."
• "An absolute gem of a coffee shop and over the years has turned into the worst kept secret in the east village (deservedly)."
• "It’s one of my favourite places to work in Stratford."
• "This cafe is located nicely near to westfield Stratford."

Cons:

• "Nice location but wouldn't visit again."
• "All cutlery/crockery are single use, regardless of if people stay inside or not, which does not seem very eco-friendly."
• "The ordering system where you go into the cafe to choose what you want, and then go back outside to order through the hatch to the same person who said you need to go outside to order is insane."
• "However, my recent experience on a weekday morning was slightly hindered by the excessively loud music."
• "Could get a bit loud indoors due to music."
• "The service and ordering process lets this place down majorly."
• "Looks pretty, happy to have such places in the area but the freshness of baked items is questionable."

Value and Pricing

Pros:

• "I've been to Signorelli more than ones, it's a good place to have breakfast offering a good quality with a medium price."
• "The price they charge are competitive."
• "Overall the location is superb, the hospitality amazing and the food and drinks well priced and delicious."
• "Fast, efficient and friendly service with a variety of salads, sandwiches, breakfast and brunch options - all reasonably priced."
• "No preservatives and they have a zero waste policy so they’ll sell out of stuff every day."
• "Great coffee, pastries and sandwiches."
• "Prices are a bit high but I would still come back there for a coffee and chill plus the almond cookie 🍪."

Cons:

• "No vegetarian or vegan options so if you are vegetarian by any chance all you can do is buy coffee which will be served cold and without sugar."
• "Wasn't happy with the experience here. We had to pay a service charge when we ordered at the counter."
• "Their food is decent but not great and as such rather overpriced."
• "Not honest with customers... not price shown to customers about pastry."
• "The place is a bit expensive."
• "Went a few times but the last two times, where I ordered the tomato mozzarella pesto toastie, it arrived cold."
• "The only thing to note is the coffee is a rather dark roast, so is quite bitter."