Chinwag in Lewisham

Simply the best! Always! Thanks to you both!!!

Good place great food and pleasant staff

Delicious food with amazing proportions so it’s worth the money. Good cost, good taste, lovely presentation- i had a great time :)

I first came here in 2019 following a tour at Goldsmiths - I've been back to many times to count and it's amazing every time :)

The guy working here is absoultly down on customers and discriminating people! If you want to have bad mood it’s the place you can go. It will ruin your mood if you eat here because the guy working here will expressing his bad nagative vibe and frustration to you.

Incredibly condescending and rude staff who refused my order of fries and said I had to order a main and a drink. In an entirely empty cafe (apart from two of my friends) on a Monday morning said I should ‘at least order a drink especially since I was taking up a whole table.’ At least communicate better instead of rudely pushing staff away? Can’t imagine a £4 latte would be that good if they gave such little consideration for people coming in. Go to the greasy spoon cafe next door they’re much friendlier and better value.

Ive been here a few times, but of course the one time I was treated rudely was when I came as a group of international students from Goldsmiths. They treated us very passive agressively, asking 2x 'are you staying much longer?'. They refused to give us tap water, which is fine if it werent for the fact that the woman in the next table was served tap water. Apparently they were annoyed because the three of us ordered 2 mains (with extras), a side of fries and a cup of tea, and their rule is that each person should order a main. We told them that they should have communicated this to us verbally or via rules on the menu, as we would have happily supported the business and ordered more. Its frustrating because as an international student, we get treated a lot like it's not worth explaining things to us and being treated like a nuissance. We are just trying to get lunch and would have appreciated open and clear communication on how we should behave in their business, instead of rude passive aggressive behavior. Wont be coming back here again.

Run by a lovely couple, the best eggs Benedict!

A New Cross Gem! Banging food at a great price, It’s become a part of my week. The owners are lovely people, whose business I’m proud to support week in week out.

What an absolute disaster of a cafe! If you're in the mood for being treated like garbage and served subpar food, then this is the place for you. From the moment I walked in, I was greeted with the stench of incompetence and the sight of a so-called "owner" who seemed to have mistaken hospitality for hostility.

The person who served us could barely bring herself to serve us. She actively tired to keep the interaction to the minimum barely saying any words, it was the same when she put the food down. A real shame to have someone work in the hospitality industry and hating being there.

The worst service I have ever recieved. Was refused an order by an extremely rude old lady and encouraged to go elsewhere because it is not worth “cutting the potatoes” then proceeds to say in response to me saying that this is the worst service ever, “there is no service you are no costumer here”. Will not be coming near that place ever again if I should be lucky enough.

Terrible, terrible lady can’t believe how rude she was

Excellent. Staff are incredible. Food is incredible. Tried to add a photo as truly, the food tastes as good as it looks.

The guy working in here gave me terrible experience. VERY RUDE. He was keeping trying to make a argument with me and I use toilet before order and he was express his frustration a lot to me. It’s been for a while I visited here but sometimes I get angry because of this men very traumatic experience ever!

Chinwag has been a life long foundation of my friendships. Perfect prices, perfect food and drink and LOVELY staff. Genuinely the best cafe i’ve ever been to.

Best brunches and smoothies. Lovely owners!

This place is really cool and calm. I love the food. I wish they had more tea options. The decor is really cool and then place has calm lighting and isn't too loud. Staff are always really helpful and friendly. Unfortunately you need to have cash on you hut luckily there's a cashpoint near by.

Best caf in new X, always the best service even when busy, owner and chef are absolute powerhouses

Really lovely café. Great vegan and vegetarian options too. Friendly service. We had the avocado on sourdough and sweet potato and normal fries. Great smoothies. Only gripe is cash only and no one really clearing tables after it's been busy.

Amazing pancakes and friendly atmosphere

No prams allowed. We were looking forward to our post parkrun breakfast/brunch having read such good reviews but were sadly turned away due to having a pram. I understand your concerns about blocking the fire exit but we could have folded the pram if you had asked and it might be nice to make it clear in advance that no prams are allowed here.

Cash only. Price is comparably good to other places but the dishes served were saved by the large slices of bread. Service was laid back but pleasant. However the dishes tried were just OK. Avocado on toast, while descriptively correct was really perhaps half an avocado at best. 1 mushroom. 1 tomato. Coffee tasted coarsely ground and that the machine needed a clean. Smoothie was very nice.

I went to this cafe all the way through my time at Uni (Goldsmithds) which is on the same road. My God. It's been months since I graduated and I still dream of their chicken salad. I used to go every few days. The salad, the drinks, the burgers... Tears come to my eyes when thinking about it. I live in Scotland (Edinburgh) now and when I'm back down in London next, I'll immediately be going there. The food is peerfectlyyyyy cooked. Service is amazing, I miss the conversations I used to have there. Food is very high quality and reasonably priced. The food is incredible. Just incredible. I miss it. May Chinwag live forever!

Great breakfast and good price. Sausages and bacon are proper good quality too

friendliest place to get lunch at in new cross!

Amazing food for price! All the ingredient are fresh and tasty. All time Goldsmiths staff and students spot for brunch.

Favourite breakfast place ! Very affordable and tasty, never disappointed- and run by very lovely people

Beautiful Cafe ans friendly team, but the pumpkin pie was too sweet for me. I will try their other flavours next time!

This is my favourite place to go. The food is delicious & so reasonably priced, I don’t feel guilty popping in as many times as I do. Their brunch items are so so good (the Power House 🤤), but I have been in love with the chicken wrap with extra halloumi for ages now. Can’t go wrong with it. Tell them Eric sent you & they’ll probably be like, “Who the hell js Eric?!” So maybe don’t do that. But you should definitely go.

Really nice food all at a good price. Staff are lovely. Always like to come here for lunch.

Fantastic quality food, lovely staff and great prices. Highly recommend for breakfast and coffee. Certainly will visit again

Lovely place, great good, very passive aggressive service from server and chef.

Incredible burgers. Solid English breakfasts and cocktails to cure all kinds of hangover. Wish I lived closer - would be in here every Sunday. Bravo 👏

Everything is superb 👌 food, service , so friendly

Haven’t had the chance to eat here yet, unfortunately every time I pass by at different hours in the day, it’s closed. Hope they either post correct hours on GMaps or at least mark it as “temporarily closed” for anyone trying to get here in vain. There are two cool independent coffee places in the vicinity if you are stuck for options. But would honestly love to update my review if this place opens again.

Amazing service, I'm always welcomed with a warm smile and a great chat. The food is amazing and the coffee is high quality. Cash only

Lovely food at great price. Wide range on the menu. All day breakfast!!!!!

Oh my goodness, what a treat for a Saturday breakfast eating out! This is one of the Power House's (the grocer's apostrophe is no doubt ironic and post-modern) – avocado on generous slabs of toasted sourdough, topped with a big grilled mushroom and tomatoes, streaky bacon and fried egg and adorned with with chili flakes. It's good. Best latte I've had for a while too. The Chinwag is independent, good value and fun: what more could you want?

Good breakfast / brunch location. Great choice of vegetarian options on the menu. Good amount of food on the plate and at a reasonable price. Would like to go back to try more. Only negative point is cash only, cash machine nearby.

Highly recommend their special eggs on toast with chorizo. They accept cash only

Love this cafe but I travelled here yesterday for lunch only to find it closed, which was a real shame as Google said it was open. The food is really really great and portions good (though the vegan salad needs more than one falafel to justify £6!) so it’s a pity they don’t update their opening times. Also please get a card machine!

The food is so good for an amazing price. And the lady who runs it is so sweet!

Lovely coffee and lovely people

Our favourite place to visit every Sunday. Great and high quality ingredients at reasonable prices.

tasty food at reasonable prices and laid-back vibe

A colleague at Goldsmiths, which is just across the road from Chinwag, suggested it as a good place for lunch. I'm so glad she did. It truly is charming – the slightly steam punk decor is attractive, neat and cheery; the menu is consistent with a hipster-meets-homegrown vibe; the lemon-ginger-honey iced tea was delicious and prices are reasonable. What's not to like? I expect to be back.

Food consistently excellent, I love the sweet potato fries and the goats cheese salad comes with a very respectable quantity of cheese. I finally ordered a cocktail and it was also amazing. Reasonably priced too! Cash only, but there's a cash point next to Sainsbury's.

Best food in New Cross! Amazing service and very friendly staff! Highly recommended!

A delightful atmosphere,and welcoming owner/manager,she and partner were so friendly,food was of good proportion.Near most amenities.Warning,take cash,no fascilities for cards.

Ever had the feeling that everything is done with care by normal folks for normal folks? This place has nothing fancy or οver the top, the food is delicius and harty without being spectacular, the bloody merrys weren't great, but they were just lovely, the vibe of the locals so welcoming and the staff just so friendly and worm as ιφ there isn't a single thing wrong about the world. Did I mentioned that its prices are slightly lower than your usual breakfast place and the portions slightly more generus? Hidden gem in New Cross. Deffinitely go, 5/5

Cute, small cafe with outdoor seating. Friendly host. Ordered grilled Chicken wrap was amazing! Tasty comes with a side of shredded cabbages and lettuce in vinaigrette. The food was a good portion and fair price. I added avocado as an extra to the wrap. Cash only cafe, atm at Sainsburys 2 blocks over.

Any time I'm Feel like a king :)

We had fantastic brunch there. Food and coffee were great and service was very nice and helpful.

WHAT A BEAUTIFUL WELCOMING YUMMY PLACE! Me and my partner have been regulars here for some time now... The coffee is diviiine! Food is scrumptious, and everything is so fairly priced 😍 What makes this extra special is the kind hearted souls who run this gem, we spend many an hour trading funny stories and having a good old 'Chin wag'! The decor is stylish yet comfy, and we love the telephone box door! This place feels like our second home ❤

Cool little Cafe by the New Cross Lewisham way. Cozy feeling when inside. Food was great and halal chicken and beef was served. Presentation of food was excellent. Definitely would visit again to try more dishes. This is a Cash only place.

*cash only* Great little place! Food is so tasty!!

Fantastic little café with friendly welcoming staff. Coffee and food was such high quality. We got the bacon benedict and was so good. Highly recommend and will be visiting again

Good quality food and lovely/welcoming service

❤️❤️❤️ lovely❤️❤️❤️thank you, guys

Really tasty breakfast this morning and lovely coffee Thanks

I used to come here all the time for food when I lived in the area, their burgers are delicious! I don’t live close anymore but I still make my way over there just to get their banoffee coffee I’ve become a bit obsessed with it you absolutely need to try it!

Such good coffee for such a good price. And such a lovely little stall. What’s more, the barista also likes adding and mixing sugar to the espresso shot before adding the milk, just like me! Like, we bonded!

As soon as I entered through the door my chin was going. Left, right, left right, it was unstoppable. The food was amazing, but I made a right mess trying to eat it.

¡Me encanta! Cuando estuve residiendo en el Hostel, venia a esta cafetería a comprarme el desayuno. Los precios son asequibles y son definitivamente mejor que el Costa que hay al lado. El trato al cliente es impecable, la chica rubia siempre está sonriendo y se molesta en preguntar si quieres esperar a que la comida esté lista para servirte el café (así no te lo tomas frío). Solía pedirme un “bacon and egg” sandwich que además de valer su precio, estaba riquísimo y te lo hacían al momento. Lo recomiendo, tanto si te gusta el café como si quieres apoyar al pequeño comercio.

I could eat their breakfasts for every meal of the day forever

We went there for brunch and opted for a Morning Glory dish (lol). Food was tasty, portions were reasonably big. Friendly staff. Recommended!

Consistently good food and good value. One of my favourite places for a local weekend brunch. Great breakfasts - lots of choice, generous portions, and lovely freshly made juice. Service always good and friendly. Quirky interior which adds interest. Still cash only but there's an atm a few doors down at Sainsburys.

Sausages were amazing. Best I've had in a while.

Great coffee and food. Known about this place for a while but never got a chance to go in. Grabbed some lunch there a couple of months ago, never looked back! The foods tasty and the coffees some of the best in the area. Owners make you feel really welcome.

Vegan breakfast was beautiful will definitely return ❤

Great food, great cocktails, and a great atmosphere facilitated by a welcoming team of staff. 100% recommend

good food and nice customer service!

Great little cafe for brunch / lunch. Lots of options ranging from healthy to indulgent.

A menu made only to tickle your tastebuds makes choosing what to eat a tough one, not made any easier by the specials board always on rotation. Definitely have a juice with your plate of choice, there’s a fair number, all of which are more delicious than they sound. Of course, as always, have a Chinwag

Great food and very friendly staff.

This cafe is ran by two brothers and the older brother's Mrs. They are very nice people and the food is top quality. Also it is not over priced. This quality of sausages you can't have it anywhere else for this amount of money. I highly recommend "morning glory"

Can’t visit New Cross without stopping for food and coffee at Chinwag! Really cute place and everything tastes amazinggggg! HIGHLY RECOMMEND!

Amazing service equally outstanding food

Great food and friendly service. Menu is varied and the burgers are delicious!

Damn but this is good! The reviewer before me praised the powerhouse and I’m happy to second the opinion that it’s bloody good. My cardiologist would say “run away!” but he’s a joyless miserable character, so to hell with him. Enjoy the perfect bacon, the tomato, avocado, egg and slight garlic and chilli on sourdough with a great coffee. It might take an epidemiological 5 minutes off my life, but hey, life’s too short to worry about that! ...well 5 minutes shorter now.

I luuuuurve Chin Wag! I come here on a regular basis for breakfast and despite being a meat eater, always go for the Veggie Power house. Great coffee, nice atmosphere, and great service!

My flat mate and I come here every Saturday morning and it's honestly turned us into the men we are today. Chinwag has brought us back from the brink more times than I can count. The 'morning glory' fry ups are second to none. The bloody marys have genuine magical powers of restoration. And the service is outstanding. It's almost at the point now where we can walk in and be served two delicious Morning Glorys with no beans and extra hash brown with a mere hungover nod. This is priceless. The food is also very reasonably priced, and filling. London is brimming with £15 thin toast - one sausage - one egg - one tomato - one mushroom - rubbish hash brown monstrosities posing as breakfast - this is not one of them. It's not just the best breakfast place in New Cross, but there's nowhere else we'd rather go in London. Probably Europe. This review may sound like hyperbole, but it's not. We honestly get annoyed when we have breakfasts that haven't been made by Chinwag. That's 6 days out of 7 we start the day annoyed. The Power House is also bloody lovely. And the green juices. And the coffees. And whilst I personally think pancakes aren't for breakfast, I'd be lying if I said the All American didn't look tasty as hell. Chinwag, thank you. To the rest of you, if you go anywhere else you're actually mental.

weve been here for 4 yrs we really love vegan salad and atmosphere here. cozy place and friendly staff gonna miss here!!🥰

Good food and cozy place just 2 min from university.

Chin wag is a great place, eat there often after my bootcamp. Only downside is it's cash only.

Excellent little place with inspired vegetarian and vegan dishes. Great for brunch, they have a bar and serve lip smackingly delicuous bloody marys.

There aren't many places like this left in gentrified London, please patronise even if just for a coffee! They have a fantastic #vegan menu (will list below) and delicious smoothies. Really lovely owner-run cafe with hand-made art and décor (ask them about it). This is a charming place with wood furniture and a whole lot of heart. The staff are friendly and are a great chat, while the food is delicious too. Dishes are well thought out and balanced, no being short-changed here. *Check out their loo ;) #Vegan Glory (breakfast): 2 veggie sausages(?), bubble & squeak, roasted cherry tomatoes, flat mushroom, spinach, baked beans and sourdough bread. #Vegan salad: Hummous, bulgar wheat and chickpeas, sundried tomatoes, pickled slaw, avocado and onion, mixed leaves, oil and balsamic reduction dressing. #Vegan Power: Smashed avocado, coriander and lime on sourdough toast, mushrooms and seasoned tomatoes, cumin and garlic sautéed spinach and chickpeas with chilli flakes. #Glutenfree options available #Soyamilk available

Lots of food and great vegan options!

Always wanted to come to ChinWag after hearing so many good things. The food, decor and service was great. When ordering a full English, they didn’t hold back and the plate was full! The best thing about it is that is it family run and you can see it when the server is interacting with customers and with the quality of food. Also you can buy the paintings on the wall. Very good place for breakfasts and brunch and they serve alcohol. Keep going ChinWag and let’s all support local businesses.

Good food and coffee and burgers

The best healthy, hearty breakfast/ lunch in New Cross - great prices too!

Cozy brunch place with good food and friendly service

Great prices and even better food. lovely staff and a welcoming atmosphere

Mi compañero de piso y yo venimos aquí todos los sábados por la mañana y honestamente nos convirtió en los hombres que somos hoy. Chinwag nos ha devuelto desde el borde más veces de las que puedo contar. Los fritos de "gloria de la mañana" son insuperables. Los bloody marys tienen genuinos poderes mágicos de restauración. Y el servicio es sobresaliente Es casi en el momento en que podemos entrar y servir dos deliciosas Morning Glorys sin frijoles y marrones hash extra con un simple gesto de resaca. Esto no tiene precio. La comida también tiene un precio muy razonable y abundante. Londres está repleto de 15 tostadas finas, una salchicha, un huevo, un tomate, una seta, monstruosidades marrones y hash posando como el desayuno, este no es uno de ellos.No es solo el mejor lugar para desayunar en New Cross, pero en ningún otro lugar preferimos ir a Londres. Probablemente Europa. Esta revisión puede parecer hipérbole, pero no lo es. Honestamente, nos molestamos cuando tenemos desayunos que no han sido hechos por Chinwag. Eso es 6 días de 7 empezamos el día molestos. The Power House también es encantadora. Y los jugos verdes. Y los cafés Y aunque personalmente creo que los panqueques no son para el desayuno, estaría mintiendo si dijera que el All American no se veía tan sabroso como el infierno.Chinwag, gracias.Para el resto de ustedes, si van a otro lado, en realidad son mentales.

Pleasant fare, huge portions and an excellent Bloody Mary. Burger could stand to be a little pinker in the middle, though I know not all places like to adhere to this given the potential risk. Staff were lovely & very accommodating.

Really bad food, terrible service

Nice cafe with a good range of options (though a few more veg/vegan options wouldn't go amiss). Be warned though -- it's cash only (as of the last time that I visited), so make sure that you bring some!

Food was really good and with good variety on the menu. Would have got 5 stars but 'cash only' which in 2018 is unusual. My guess is Sainsburys ATM close by does good business 😉

Not really sure what all of the fuss is about !! It's nice and clean and the food is OK - the atmosphere is quite nice but the staff are not very friendly and it's a bit pricy for what it's worth !