The Riding House Cafe

Riding House Cafe never disappoints. We had a great Friday night dinner and drinks. Good atmosphere and service.

I would recommend Riding House Cafe I loved the food and the look however our service was appalling. Our waiter was not interested and was quite surly in the language that he used.

Simply Excellent food - absolutely delicious! Fantastic Venue - will return!

Yum brunch! Beautiful place, great vibe and friendly staff.

Great atmosphere and service. Best pancakes in London

The ambience and service were good, but my food was not. The bacon was thick and hard to cut, and the buttermilk pancakes were dry. I found it really indigestible. We were also sitting directly below an air conditioning unit which made it a little unpleasant.

Very friendly service

Lovely food and friendly staff. The decor is beautiful!

Fantastic experience!
Great staff and great food! I’ll be looking forward to coming back!

I visited the Riding House Cafe for brunch with a friend. The staff were very attentive and helpful when we arrived, and my coffee was lovely. I ordered the scrambled eggs with cherry tomatoes - the tomatoes were perfect, but the eggs were rubbery and overdone. Nobody came to ask whether the food was okay, and my plate was cleared too quickly for me to mention anything. Generally the cafe has a nice atmosphere and I'd go back, just not for brunch.

Very enjoyable and wonderful service.

I generally love the Riding House cafe but on this visit my breakfast was not good. I ordered eggs, avocado, mushrooms and halloumi. The scrambled eggs tasted overcooked and bitty and the halloumi tasted like it was reheated rather than freshly made. Overall I love the atmosphere there and the service is great, though. I would go back but not great breakfast and in the future, would probably tell the waiter if there was a similar issue with the food.

The food was lovely with the Mac and cheese being tasty. However the service was extremely slow from the kitchen.

The full English breakfast at an eye-watering £14.50 was extremely basic.

Lovely food, great ambiance, considerate service. We had a lovely evening and will return.

The worst scrambled egg I’ve ever eaten, the smoked salmon was pretty bad too

It is unfortunate, but lately, every time I have come to the Riding House Cafe the food is increasingly worse and worse.

The perfect brunch menu - something for everyone and some excellent cocktails as a bonus. We'll be going back to try everything!

Great atmosphere, had a young baby with us and he was happy. Great service and didn’t rush us out.

It was really busy and buzzy. I had booked for brunch shown to a table with a stool as one of the chairs.
Tea pots leaked
Sourdough toast very chewy
My chorizo hash was disappointing. Eggs over cooked, chorizo over cooked and potatoes undercooked.
Smoothie was nice. My friends ham and Eggs was good. Just a little disappointing as mine was so dry

It was busy and noisy but this did not change our experience, the staff were great and attentive. Space is tight.

Fun brunch. Good food, excellent Benedict, reliable grub. Wish the service was on point.

Delicious breakfast food and really comfortable seating. Very comfortable atmosphere and good customer service.

Loved the Smashed Avo on Toast + Feta 👌🏻

The service is excellent and attentive; the food, amazing. I had the best shakshuka I’ve ever tasted here and can’t recommend it highly enough, although would suggest you get extra toast as it doesn’t come with a lot. There’s a lot of noise, so good for more of a lively brunch feel rather than for a long, lazy morning.

The staff were very helpful and catered to all our requirements. The only thing they could improve was clarifying who was in charge of the orders for our tables so that we knew whose attention to try and get.

I’ve been to this restaurant many times. It is generally very good. However Sunday evening doesn’t seem the best time to go. We were a table of 6 by the window in the bar area and it was very cramped. They have a new high table in the centre and the chairs are fixed so the 2 members of our party closest to them were bumped every time someone walked past. We asked if we could move but the only option was the high table which wasn’t suitable for 2 of our party due to mobility challenges. The restaurant area was empty. I understand the operational reasons for putting people in the bar area but I would expect guest experience to trump operational convenience. Our waitress was lovely but overworked so the service was slow. The food was good. I do really like this place but please sort out the layout of that room and think about the comfort of guests!

The place feels lively, yet relaxed. The service is very attentive. The food is great, I indulged in the buttermilk pancakes with the berry compote and it was great. The portion was very generous. I have been before, and I will go again!

I’d have paid them the bill again for the quality of the food and not batted an eyelid. For bob on the centre of London, you’d go a long way to eat such a decent meal for the price I paid (about £45 for two inc. drinks etc.)

I’m a Brummie so I’m never going to be happy unless we’re all sitting in one-another’s laps, but there was a bit of an insular experience despite the long communal bench.

Staff friendly and attentive without pulling a chair up to the table and giving it the “hi guys” thing.

Salads were good, mushroom falafel salad was too oily as mushrooms absorbed the oil. The small plates on sticks were excellent, especially the halloumi balls. The main course of mushroom Wellington was very good but my partners cheeseburger was very average. The roast potatoes as a side dish was literally smothered in oil. We shared the Apple tart tartin for dessert and the pastry was still raw.
Service was excellent and the organic red wine was very good.
Overall summary it’s a great venue and front of staff very friendly and very good service but the kitchen staff needs to improve the quality of some of the items on the menu.

Teething errors in service - service was a bit too casual and way too many servers around our table
Can’t fault the food except the portions were smaller than expected given the price
Sticks were lovely

It was very average. Nothing was terrible, but nothing was particularly brilliant either. Waitress kept coming over while my friend and I were talking, badgering us about ordering - even though the place was practically empty. Another waiter spilt 3 plates of food over a lady, but it was an accident. I would go there again, but only for a casual meet up with friends.

Chorizo hash with eggs were over cooked, full English was cold, the pancakes with berries were burnt and cold.

Very good!!

I was recommended this place and I have been myself before with the colleague who recommended it and had a lovely breakfast. This time I visited and even though the place was quiet 0900 on a Sunday the service was terrible and the food was cold, eggs not cooked and everything else on the plate was not hot or even warm. the pot of tea wasn’t even hot. Paid the bill but refused to pay a service charge and I was questioned and debated with over why I didn’t. Poor!!

Dined here with friends on a Saturday afternoon. Wait staff were friendly and attentive, food was tasty and arrived in good time, good choice of drinks too. Loved the Mac 'n' cheese in particular!

Having been a regular at Riding House Cafe and having always enjoyed their salads, I was very disappointed in the new Autumn menu and the quality of the "bowl" I ordered. Portion size greatly reduced and the quality of the salad very underwhelming. Poor description match to the menu.

Nice menu, good food, best pancakes, friendly stuff, clean area!

Very nice food in a really relaxed environment - will be back

Lovely meal as always though disappointed with the service this time.