CROWDSOURCED CAFESHow often do you find yourself struggling to find a good cafe to work from when you’re visiting London? Well, we’re crowdsourcing the best cafes in London to work from (or even study from of course!), these cafes will include co-working spaces that are free to use across the city.
CRAFT LONDON
Peninsula Square, Greenwich Peninsula, London SE10 0SQ
Main independant cafe on Greenwich Peninsula (North Greenwich) and close to the tube. Doesn’t have the most comfortable seating but has a fair few plug sockets. Has decent coffee/WiFi, good background music and nice breakfast food too (eggs benedict etc).
Cafe or Co Working? Cafe
WiFi: Average
Wifi Password:Accepts Cards: Yes
Toilet Available: Yes
Pet Friendly: Yes
Power socket availability: OK
Vegetarian Options: Yes
Music: Chilled
Coffee Quality: Excellent
Coffee Price: £2.70
Food Selection: Good
By Surf and Unwind
HANK AND GINGER
The Printrooms, 164-180 Union St, London, England SE1 0LH, United Kingdom
Pretty spacious if you can get a spot, can get busy at times. Has good coffee/service and a healthy selection of food, especially around lunchtime. Music selection is a bit repetitive but Wifi is fairly good for the basics.
Cafe or Co Working? Cafe
WiFi: Good
Wifi Password:n/a
Accepts Cards: Yes
Toilet Available: Yes
Pet Friendly: Yes
Power socket availability: Good
Vegetarian Options: Yes
Music: Background
Coffee Quality: Good
Coffee Price: £2.40
Food Selection: Good
By Surf and Unwind
IKEA
55-57 Bugsby’s Way, Greenwich Peninsula, London SE10 0QJ
Massive Ikea restaurant that seems to have been designed around people who also want to work from a cafe. It has plug sockets and a range of different seating options. Plenty of food from the cafeteria and coffee/tea is cheap (but coffee isn’t great). WiFi is super quick here too.
Cafe or Co Working? Cafe
WiFi: Good
Wifi Password:Accepts Cards: Yes
Toilet Available: Yes
Pet Friendly: No
Power socket availability: Great
Vegetarian Options: Yes
Music: Background
Coffee Quality: Poor
Coffee Price: £2
Food Selection: Great
By Surf and Unwind
THE ARCHIVE CAFE @ THE RECORD HALL
16-16A Baldwins Gardens | Hatton Garden, London EC1N 7RJ, England
Cafe or Co Working? Cafe
WiFi: Good
Wifi Password:Accepts Cards: Yes
Toilet Available: Yes
Pet Friendly: Yes
Power socket availability: OK
Vegetarian Options: Not Sure
Music: Background
Coffee Quality: Good
Coffee Price: £2.50
Food Selection: OK
By Surf and Unwind
CITIZENM HOTEL TOWER HILL
40 Trinity Square, St Katharine’s & Wapping, London EC3N 4DJ
You can work in the lobby of the hotel, they have good chairs and massive tables to work on. While they aren’t keen for you to set up your office here and visit daily, if you ever need a space to work that’s chilled and has good WiFi, this is the place I always go to! The food is a little expensive (Red Velvet cake always great!), but since this is a hotel that you can just walk into (there are no reception desks), it’s also pretty easy to bring your own!
Cafe or Co Working? Hotel
WiFi: Good
Wifi Password: Not Needed
Accepts Cards: Yes
Toilet Available: Yes
Pet Friendly: No
Power socket availability: Great
Vegetarian Options: Yes
Music: Chilled
Coffee Quality: Not Sure
Coffee Price: Not Sure
Food Selection: OK
By The Travel Tester
CITIZENM HOTEL SHOREDITCH
6 Holywell Ln, Hackney, London EC2A 3ET
You can work in the lobby of the hotel, they have good chairs and massive tables to work on. While they aren’t keen for you to set up your office here and visit daily, if you ever need a space to work that’s chilled and has good WiFi, this is the place I always go to! The food is a little expensive (Red Velvet cake always great!), but since this is a hotel that you can just walk into (there are no reception desks), it’s also pretty easy to bring your own!
Cafe or Co Working? Hotel
WiFi: Good
Wifi Password: Not Needed
Accepts Cards: Yes
Toilet Available: Yes
Pet Friendly: No
Power socket availability: Great
Vegetarian Options: Yes
Music: Chilled
Coffee Quality: Not Sure
Coffee Price: Not Sure
Food Selection: OK
By The Travel Tester
TIMBER YARD
7 UPPER ST MARTINS’S LN, LONDON, WC2H 9DL
Great cafe and great location, it actively encourages co-working
Cafe or Co Working? Cafe
WiFi: Good
Wifi Password: Not Needed
Accepts Cards: Yes
Toilet Available: Yes
Pet Friendly: No
Power socket availability: Good
Vegetarian Options: Yes
Music: Chilled
Coffee Quality: Excellent
Coffee Price: Not Sure
Food Selection: OK
By globalhelpswap
LOOK MUM NO HANDS
49 Old St, London EC1V 9HX
Cool cafe and bike shop that is laptop-friendly and where you can get yummy healthy snacks, food and drinks.
Cafe or Co Working? Cafe
WiFi: Good
Wifi Password: n/a
Accepts Cards: Yes
Toilet Available: Yes
Pet Friendly: Yes
Power socket availability: Good
Vegetarian Options: Yes
Music: Background
Coffee Quality: Good
Coffee Price: Not Sure
Food Selection: Good
By Surf and Unwind
THE HOXTON HOTEL
81 Great Eastern Street, Hackney, London EC2A 3HU
Great hotel lobby where creatives and digital nomads spend the day working. No one bothers you to buy food all day long and the wifi works really well.
Cafe or Co Working? Hotel
WiFi: Good
Wifi Password: Not Needed
Accepts Cards: Yes
Toilet Available: Yes
Pet Friendly: Not Sure
Power socket availability: Good
Vegetarian Options: Yes
Music: Chilled
Coffee Quality: Good
Coffee Price: Not Sure
Food Selection: Good
By Taylor Fuller/ TravelColorfully
CANOVA HALL
250 Ferndale Rd, Brixton, London SW9 8BQ
Love it here because they offer a hot desk option. It costs £10pp day / £25pp week / £50pp month for unlimited hot drinks all day!
Cafe or Co Working? Restaurant
WiFi: Good
Wifi Password: Canovahall1
Accepts Cards: Yes
Toilet Available: Yes
Pet Friendly: Not Sure
Power socket availability: Great
Vegetarian Options: Yes
Music: Chilled
Coffee Quality: Good
Coffee Price: Not Sure
Food Selection: Great
By Taylor Fuller/ TravelColorfully
COFFEE ISLAND
5 UPPER ST MARTINS, London
Amazing atmosphere in a central spot in London. Not many know this place, that makes it a hidden gem where work or chill. Coffee Island is a chain originally from Patra, Greece. They are focused on Eco-Sustainability Sources. The best of this shop is that if you are addicted to the coffee like me, you will love the wide choice they have. You can mix the coffee beans as you will taste it, make your own flavour and even take for home. The shop in London has an upper deck, that makes the area isolated from the main coffee area.
Cafe or Co Working? Cafe
WiFi: Good
Wifi Password: Not Needed
Accepts Cards: Yes
Toilet Available: Yes
Pet Friendly: Yes
Power socket availability: Great
Vegetarian Options: Yes
Music: Background
Coffee Quality: Excellent
Coffee Price: £2
Food Selection: OK
By Toti and Alessia from Italian Trip Abroad
GREENWICH GRIND
17-19 Nelson Rd, London, SE10 9JB
A very Instagram-friendly coffee shop and all-day restaurant. Serving delicious coffee and many food options, it is the perfect place to work from while taking a few pictures too. Computers need to be packed away from 6pm when they start serving cocktails and dinner.
Cafe or Co Working? Cafe
WiFi: Good
Wifi Password: Not sure
Accepts Cards: Yes
Toilet Available: Yes
Pet Friendly: Yes
Power socket availability: OK
Vegetarian Options: Yes
Music: Background
Coffee Quality: Excellent
Coffee Price: From £2.50
Food Selection: Good
By Claire Imaginarium
DEPARTMENT OF COFFEE & SOCIAL AFFAIRS
Unit 4, 2 Kingdom St, Paddington W2 6BD
Excellent coffee in a modern industrial space that opens on to the lobby of a shared office. Excellent for a quiet place to work or a quick meeting with sensationally good coffee.
Cafe or Co Working? Cafe
WiFi: Good
Wifi Password: Not sure
Accepts Cards: Yes
Toilet Available: Yes
Pet Friendly: Yes
Power socket availability: Good
Vegetarian Options: Yes
Music: Chilled
Coffee Quality: Excellent
Coffee Price: £2.80
Food Selection: OK
By Paul & Mark
CAFÉ OSCARS
48 Ladywell Rd, Lewisham, London SE13 7UZ
Cafe Oscar recently reopened under new management. It doesn’t have WiFi yet but you will still find plenty of people there working on their laptop. They serve Volcano Coffee (roasted in Brixton) and the menu will suit all diet and is very gluten free and vegan friendly. The place is bright and modern and the back garden a great place to catch a bit of sun!
Cafe or Co Working? Cafe
WiFi: None
Wifi Password: Not sure
Accepts Cards: Yes
Toilet Available: Yes
Pet Friendly: Yes
Power socket availability: Good
Vegetarian Options: Yes
Music: Background
Coffee Quality: Excellent
Coffee Price: From £2.50
Food Selection: Good
By Claire Imaginarium
THE BARBICAN
Silk St, Barbican, London EC2Y 8DS
A huge, quiet space with many different seating areas and low-lighting to focus on your tasks in hand. They have a Costa store on-site. Very relaxing area but with a slight bankground noise so you’re not working in complete silence. Unlike other coffee shops you don’t hear clattering cups or noisy grinding machines.
Cafe or Co Working? Cafe
WiFi: Good
Wifi Password: Not sure
Accepts Cards: Yes
Toilet Available: Yes
Pet Friendly: Not Sure
Power socket availability: OK
Vegetarian Options: Yes
Music: Background
Coffee Quality: Good
Coffee Price: From £2.50
Food Selection: Good
By Steve Biggs
ATTENDANT SHOREDITCH
74 Great Eastern Street, Hackney, London EC2A 3JL
Attendant is a bright little cafe with high ceilings and plants all over the walls. They serve a great range of brunch and light lunch options and lots of coffees. The space feels a bit cramped at the tables but there’s a lovely nook with four stools set against the window, and four plugs right underneath, so it’s a great spot to work from!
Cafe or Co Working? Cafe
WiFi: Good
Wifi Password: not sure
Accepts Cards: Yes
Toilet Available: Yes
Pet Friendly: Yes
Power socket availability: Good
Vegetarian Options: Yes
Music: Background
Coffee Quality: Excellent
Coffee Price: From £2.50
Food Selection: Great
By Flora Baker
LEYAS
20 Camden High St, Kings Cross, London NW1 0JH
Great, chilled space for working during the day in Camden. The coffee is amazing and has decent prices, but whilst the food is very tasty, it is a little pricey for what you get. There is a large downstairs area with lots of big tables so it would be good for big group meetings, however, as you are unable to reserve tables in advance it would be best to go quite early.
Cafe or Co Working? Cafe
WiFi: Good
Wifi Password: Not Needed
Accepts Cards: Yes
Toilet Available: Yes
Pet Friendly: Not Sure
Power socket availability: Good
Vegetarian Options: Yes
Music: Background Music
Coffee Quality: Excellent
Coffee Price: From £2.50
Food Selection: Ok
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So there you have it, our best cafes in London from bloggers that love and live in the city. We’ll be updating this article as much as we can to ensure the information on cafes in the capital is as up to date as possible.