Café Le Cordon Bleu London in Camden

I've been an early morning visitor to the cafe for a number of years. The food, coffee and particularly the service, never fails.

Best croque monsieur I have ever eaten outside France. Get there before 11am or nothing left

Been popping in here over the past 2 years. Both the quality and the range of food on offer is stellar, with something for you whether you're in a trencherman mood or on a diet. The staff are consistency personified: quick, efficient, friendly and knowledgeable. This place surely is one of London's top best kept secrets?

A disappointing experience - this place certainly does not live up to its name. Not well stocked as there was only one baguette left during early lunchtime.

Just love it 😍 Especially I enjoyed delicious matcha and pastry 😍

I visited the Cordon Bleu Café and had a positive experience. The staff was really thoughtful, which I highly appreciated! I tried the apricot, honey, and lavender tart, and it was really good! I enjoyed the flavors, especially the lavender, which was delightful. The biscuit was a liiiittle bit dry but nothing too crazy. The prices of the pastries were good for London (though the croissant and pain au chocolat were a bit expensive at £4 and £4.50). The inside of the café isn't particularly beautiful, but the outside seating area is cuter, which is nice.

Secret oasis not far from the British Museum. Amazing pastries, delicious sandwiches, well made coffee.

Delicious coffee & pastries worth coming back for! Gracious staff!

Found Cafe Cordon Bleu after a visit to the British Museum. We were looking for somewhere to have coffee and something light to eat. I was a little disappointed ,as i am coeliac that there was no gluten free menu. However the staff were friendly and apologetic. There was however a GF cake available which I accepted. The chocolate and almond cake was delicious and the latte i had to accompany it was superb. Hopefully next time I visit London Cafe Cordon Bleu will have a few more GF alternatives available as i would definitely visit Cafe Cordon Bleu again.

Is not very cozy as it's a culinary school BUT the food and coffee are exquisite and the staff are so nice. We would always go back there when in the area best coffee and pastries around.

Had a proper macchiato, very happy about that. The Mulled wine cake was very good. The yuzu and matcha was disappointing, couldn't taste any matcha at all. Therefore 4★

Very clean and nice environment, huge croissants, excellent American coffee and cappuccino. The guys behind the counter are very kind. Everything perfect, low prices considering the larger portions of the croissants compared to the other cafes I tried!

Best beef baguette I've ever had - so good!

The best almond croissant I have ever had! So delicious, and the layers! The lamination process was done very well.

My wife and I had some time to kill before our 10AM reservation to enter the British Museum. This cafe is, literally, right around the corner. I found it here on TA. We each had a breakfast with scrambled eggs, bacon and a baguette. We also shared a pain au chocolat. We could not have been more pleasantly surprised. The scrambled eggs were buttery and perfectly cooked. The bacon smoky, but the true "eye opener" was the baguette! It was life affirming :). It was a perfect combination of a crackly crisp crust with a light airy center. I don't think I've ever had one as good. The pain au chocolat was also excellent with incredible laminations and great quality chocolate. The place is the cafe for the culinary students at the London branch of Le Cordon Bleu so you would expect the food to be good. The "icing on the cake" was how inexpensive it was. The eggs, bacon and baguette were something like 6.50 GBP. Yes, it was served on disposable plates but try to find this quality of breakfast for that price anywhere else in the city!

Came in since it's close to the British museum and Google said it wasn't busy. It was a quick line to get through, they were friendly, and the croissant was absolutely delicious. The people who dined with me really enjoyed their lattes as well. Highly recommend!

Great quality pastries, though the selection is limited. Atmosphere is more of a university cafe, but they have A/C!

Wonderful French cafe serving breakfast. We had stopped here on our way to the British Museum (around the corner) and had a lovely French breakfast. Very clean and the staff were friendly. Would highly recommend!

If you want a quiet space in the centre of Bloomsbury with good baguettes and amazing cakes, try here. The students come out for their breaks and food is a serious endeavour in this establishment. Free WiFi.

Wonderful food and coffee but appalling service. The person at the till communicates by gesturing rather words and when I misunderstood that thwy served at tables rather than at the till he let me sit outside waiting rather than calling me in. When pointing out that I misunderstood because he gestured in the direction of the courtyard there was no apology and barely any word of comprehension. I had to point to each cake I wanted to order because they didn't understand the french names clearly written, nor what caffe au lait is. I expected something veeeery different from the name and fame of this place.. Hugely disappointed in the service

Great coffee, very tasty breakfast, pastries are delicious Glad we found it, well worth the visit.

Hyggeligt at sidde i baggården og få god kage og kaffe.

Excellent coffee and an amazing almond croissant

This is one of my favourite coffee haunts. If your hungry it doesn't hurt to be a place that chefs chef at. You can get some great nibbles, or mains. Lots of outdoor space without traffic

I went in early one morning for breakfast and had a really great time. It was clean, peaceful and quiet. I really enjoyed my breakfast here and the staff is nice. Also the croissants are HUGE, biggest croissant I have ever had. I recommend.

Not a 1950s interior. Salad leaves accompanying sandwich contained some less than fresh leaves. We had tuna baguette, duck baguette and patisserie, plus small latte and an Americano . £27.00 Lacked atmosphere. Staff very friendly and polite.

Came here for their croissant but been told I need to come here very early otherwise it’s gone very soon. The other dessert are great anyway

Awesome service and staggering arrange of of pastries. Great cafe to sit and watch the world go by… sipping a coffee and eating fresh warm pastries.

I honestly think these might be the best flat whites in London? Can’t wait to come and sit outside in the square in summer.

thought the tarts and cakes would be expensive (considering their sky high class prices) but surprised to find out that it was reasonably priced! and delicious too. the only downside is the interior.. seemed too effortless for a cafe and not-so-comfy chairs.

気軽に入れてテラス席で食べることもできます。コルドンの人たちがたくさんいますが普通の人もいますよ。 どれもおいしいんだけど ここのクロワッサンは人生の中で1番おいしいクロワッサンです。

I organised a tea gathering for twenty two people we all worked in different parts of the world. The staff were just Brilliant in making it happen. Cakes were exquisite and service was given with charm and understanding that we were meeting as a group for the first time. They helped make it a huge success.

What a great find, near the British museum in a little courtyard. Great coffee, not bitter and we had eggs and bacon like no other. Scrambled eggs served in a little cast iron pot, kept them warm with delicious smoked bacon slices and baguette roll, crunchy crust but soft on the inside. £17 for two people in central London great value especially given the quality of food. Will be back. It is a cookery school, the cafe has been opened to the public and there is a separate restaurant.

Good quality products and very professional staff. Recommended.

Staying at a hotel near the British museum. Extremely polite service and excellent food. There was an olive skinned lady and an Afro Carribean gentleman who were very busy with the previous orders but took a moment out of their tasks to acknowledge me and reassure me they would be as quick as possible. I had a mocha and the eggs, salmon and baguette which was lovely and fresh and at a reasonable price.

The food and coffee are arguably the best in England. Not to mention the desserts which are creative and amazing to look at. When you bite into them they give such a variety of flavour it's just great. The service was top notch and I was even given a free macaroon because my eggs didn't come out at the same time as my family's. I really appreciated the gesture and the macaroon was nice too. I would have taken pictures but I ate it all.

Absolutely fabulous! Went there for a coffe first time and then came back next day and the day after:) coffee is consistently perfect! Great beans, full body and well balanced. This is best coconut milk flat white Ive tried. Breakfast options are very nice. We had avocado toast with poached eggs. Made to perfection! The iffer wide range of desserts. We tried vegan passion fruit chocolate dessert and the mango eclair. It is very tasty. Very professional and welcoming staff!

Great cafè in the center of London. A must if you like really nice pastries.

Awesome bakery and coffee, would recommend.

Lovely sandwiches. Great bread. Went back twice in two days and I wanted to go back on the third day too 😂. Decent vegetarian options

What could have been a pleasant breakfast outside on a hot day was ruined by the sudden appearance of about 15 cookery students, surrounding the table I was sat at, many smoking and talking in extremely loud voices with liberal use of the "F" word.

We have been to an excellent cafe across the courtyard from this place but have never given this place a go. We came for lunch. Hot food stops at 11am unfortunately apart from soup. We therefore tried a beef baguette which was served with some dressed salad leaves. The quality of the bread and the beef was amazing but it was relatively expensive at £7.40 eat in. We also had a French macaroon which was lovely and reasonably priced at £1.10. Tea was a bag rather than leaves and served in a large pot. The cafe itself is quite basic and not the place you would want stay in for too long.

Great selection of pastry, sandwiches (baguette & panini style), cakes and deserts. The price corresponding its quality.

It's a great local coffee place with quality coffee. Highly recommend stopping in and checking it out.

Coffee and cake wasn’t amazing! But I give 5 stars because staff was really lovely and kind. He deserve it :)

Was looking forward to going here because I heard it's attached to a chef training school. Was disappointed to be told, while looking at a nice lunch menu, that I wasn't able to have anything from it after 11am. I arrived at 12.30, which feels like a good time for lunch? Was shown to a selection of 3 cakes and 2 slightly dry sandwiches. No pastries left. Bought one of each for the table, the bread was excellent but very overpriced, cakes were mediocre.

Delicious recipes for both dine in and takeaway.

Good place to stop for a drink or meal near the British Museum. Food very good, service average, ambience sparse.

Amazing! I wasn’t expecting much, but this was one of the best cafe breakfasts I’ve had in a long time. The almond croissant was perfectly flaky and not too much filling. And the porridge was perfectly cooked, and paired with a delicious berry compote. The technical skills of the chefs really showed. I will definitely come back any time I’m in the Covent Garden area.

Really lovely food and excellent service.

A bit haphazard as the website menu and what was available differed a lot. What I had was very tasty.

We were in the area randomly and with time to kill and feeling peckish fell into the courtyard behind the London Review books store where there are several nice places to eat. It was breakfast time so we chose the Cafe Le Cordon Bleu, primarily fir coffee and croissant, but upon entering were distracted by the delicious looking ham and cheese baguettes and poached egg and smashed avocado on toast offerings. Perhaps needless to say, considering it’s a cooking school the ingredients were high quality and perfectly cooked and presented. I have come to appreciate the beauty of simple high quality ingredients done well, this is one of those places that does this exceptionally well. Highly recommended for restoring your faith in culinary standards and for a little boost of taste bud stimulation.

Perfectly perfect timing for me. Staff and service were impeccable.

Coffee tasted like literal donkey milk. I have no idea what donkey milk tastes like but my guess is the espresso at Le Cordon Bleu contains some. I don't know if it always tastes like that there or if this was a specific problem but that's not really acceptable at all. Also a plastic bottle of store-bought orange juice (330ml) was 3.5£???? Additionally, when you go to a french café and order an orange juice you often expect it to be made with real oranges on the spot, especially for 3.5£. Bad pricing, bad coffee... to top it off the description said "1950s style"... the deco was modern. EDIT: I tried the croissant, which was not bad. Maybe a 4/5 croissant. Therefore in the spirit of fairness I have added one star.

I bake at home as a hobby and have Le Cordon Bleu book at home. Finally I decided to visit the cafe and taste those deliciously beautiful creations, which looked precisely perfect like the one in the book. The presentation of those cakes/patisseries and taste excellent. I'm soo happy that I had opportunity to taste what the cooks make at the school.

Les années 50 c'était pas du tout avec des écrans plasma. C'est un café sans âme, avec des patisseries industrielles et des cafés abjectes. La seule connection que je vois avec Paris c'est le prix.

Top of the top, Its Le Cordon Bleu we are talking here, high end chef school, the food they've at their cafe is very very good and freshly made!!!! Must try

With so many cafes around in London, it can be difficult to sort out the chaff from the wheat. This place was a treat; beautiful location, friendly service, lovely tasty, hot Cortado & a proper Croissant. Not over priced either. Will come back for lunch.

Excellent food, service and environment. Such a quaint place.

I won't be going there again! I object rather strongly to being charged £1-00 for an extra tea bag, when one bag produces weak, tasteless tea. Oddly, I had visited there with friends for the previous 4 Mondays and they had always been happy to supply an extra bag with asked. We had planned to go there for the rest of Oct until the weather closes in, but now we will go elsewhere. Odd way to run a business to lose £80-100 trade all because of one tea-bag

Hidden spot at the backyard of most famous culinary school, London branch. Great selection of delicious pastries made by chefs themselves! They also have 50% off food offer (sandwiches etc.) every day after 5 p.m.

I just drunk a beer and ate patotos frizzy It is a nice and not busy place.

Хорошее кафе, вкусное, но дорогое и небольшой ассортимент

Very nice. I enjoyed a piece of cake and a cup of coffee. I wish all students here good luck for their future! :)

Hot chocolate was weak and pasty was a little stale - would not recommend - surprised by the high rating - went afternoon Friday 3rd Jan

Simple facilities, simple meals and very well cooked!

Delicious coffee and almond croissant, tastes so genuine and freshly made. I’ll certainly come again soon.

Great hidden gem but avoid student arrival

Called in for coffee after a visit to the British Museum. A lovely clean cafe, with friendly efficient service, great coffee and nice cakes !

Excellents scones, le capuccino top aussi, accueil très gentil, les oeufs brouillés et le pain chaud avec du beurre salé super!

Delicious coffee and tasty Pain Raisin.

Splrndid coffee shop in a charming place near the British museum

Nice cafe in courtyard with fantastic cakes and food. Interior could be more homely, seating is a bit stark. Seem to be closed when they say they're open, we walked across london to go there, arriving at 2pm and they were closed, though they say they shut at 3pm on Sat!

If you love desserts, you MUST pop in here for a coffee

On a hot day, after several hours attending an exhibition, it was a pleasant relief to enjoy the peace, quiet and shade of the dining area in Pied Bull Yard, only minutes from the teeming British Museum. The Cordon Bleu Café offers the quality of light refreshments expected of a prestigious catering school (with a price to match). Our hot snack and dessert was both welcome and enjoyable, and I can honestly say that the small Tiramisu I chose was the best I have tasted for a very long time. Service, also was very friendly and helpful.

We wondered why there were so many chefs in the area before realising we were actually at the Le Cordon Bleu School of Cooking. This is a delightful cafe space--well lit by natural light. Outside there is also plenty of seating in a small private courtyard area. The staff are excellent and their attention to detail really impressive . The coffees were superb and the meals excellent value and decent portions.

The tea was lovely but I wasn’t impressed with the tropical eclairs that i also had; the pastry tasted a little dry and it did not pack the flavour punch I was expecting in a £4 cake!

Always love coming here food is always great, good selection and the coffee is very tasty. It is run by students at the school.

Really good place for a coffee near to the Brittish museum. With full of variety of food to chose

My husband and I visited yesterday for lunch. We had a couple of sandwiches with salad, two eclairs, a small bottle of mineral water and two pots of tea. The cost was a whopping £29. One of the sandwiches was good the other was pretty average, with very little filling. The eclairs were awful with choux pastry that was dry and hard. The chocolate filling was also very firm and looked dull not glossy. Overall they did not seem fresh. This was a poor value meal and not at all appetizing. Very disappointing considering this is a cafe attached to a prestigious cookery school. We won't be returning.

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Excellent coffee and hot chocolate, pastries and cakes to make you the size of a house but thats fine because they cast so wonderful! Merci.

Can you give a Michelin ***** to the Cordon Bleu? Someone should.

熱巧克力滿普通的，朋友點的拿鐵也很普通，可頌麵包裡面包著蘋果泥是驚人的！

Best pasties and great breakfasts

Loving the coffee here. Can't go wrong!

It is easier to understand it as a university cafe but with fantastic french pastries and interesting tastes. Simple food but the taste is powerful. It is usually visited by the students and teachers from the culinary school. Hidden in a quiet courtyard. Basic decor. Very friendly staffs. I would not complaint too much about the price because the food quality is outstanding. (Take away price is cheaper.)

Cute little french cafe ran by the French. Was a nice cozy spot that's almost hidden away in a busy city.

Not your typical coffee bar with fancy interior and comfy seats, but on the counter are exquisite french petit fours and beautiful breads; and no, it's totally on a different league to that of patisserie valerie or the likes. If you love your genuine french cakes and breads, here's your spot.

A hidden gem with a fantastic selection of intricate patisserie cakes,croissants and breads,as well as excellent coffee.Not only that but the staff are friendly and very helpful.Well worth a visit.

Perfect spot for a tasty, light breakfast before heading in to the British Museum.

A little on the pricey side, and the staff didnt seem too thrilled to be at work, but the food was decent!

Cosy venue for good coffee and fresh pastries.

Friendly staff and nice teas. The tea pots are large and they provided a pot of hot water as we like our tea weak. But it's quite expensive at 3.50 for a tea pot. The decor is modern and has no feeling of a Parisian café.

Estuvo bien... Pero se esperaba un poco más!!

I used to go there in the morning at least once a week since it's on the way to work. I used to buy a pain au chocolat or a croissant and some sort of cheese twists. The last time I went there I bought...

You can’t see from outside but this little cafe is driven by the wellknown Patisserie school from Paris and have a very nice patio shared with a pub next door. Perfect for having nice patisserie with a good coffee sitting outside - or sitting next...

Yummy food. However the service was quite slow although I was the only customer over there.

Hidden gem. Pastries to die for. Try to survive though. Then you can have another pastry. The selection may be a little restricted. But as products of Le Cordon Bleu London, the quality is there!

Great little place hidden away from the hustle and bustle of London, great coffee, the sandwiches are great but a little overpriced!